The weather has changed, temperatures have dropped and that’s all we’ve been talking about, using the vocabulary we’ve already learned here.
While living in the US, I was frequently asked:
“How do you like the US?”,
“How do you like the food here?”
“How do you like the weather?”
Possible answers to this last question include:
“It’s fine.”
“I wish it would stop raining.”
“I prefer it warmer.”
School vacation is here! Are you going to travel?
Sabe a diferença entre travel e trip? Uma dica útil, é usar travel como verbo e trip como substantivo. Assim temos:
Expliquei essa simples regra para um aluno, enquanto ele me contava sobre seus planos de viagem para as próximas férias.
“What do you think about my trip plans?“, ele perguntou.
“Não! São travel plans“, respondi.
Travel, nesse caso, funciona como um adjetivo. E travel ainda pode ser um substantivo, como em travel broadens the mind (viajar amplia os horizontes). Para evitar confusão, use trip como substantivo e travel como verbo (to trip significa tropeçar).
Existe uma piadinha muito antiga para ser usada quando alguém tropeçar ao seu lado. E só dizer: “Did you have a nice trip?” Grande parte das piadas em inglês brinca com o duplo sentido dos termos. Aqui, “teve uma boa viagem?” é o mesmo que “tropeçou bem?”.
Referência: Michael Jacobs “Como Não Aprender Inglês – Edição Definitiva Editora Campus/Elsevier, 2002.
Do you know what worth means?
Worth as a noun, means how good or useful something is or how important it is to people [= value]:
The new computer system has already proved its worth.
And how much money something is worth [= value]:
It is difficult to estimate the current worth of the company.
Worth as a preposition, is only used after verbs such as be, seem, look. It means having a particular value, especially in money:
A: I wonder how much the house is worth?
B: About half a million, probably.
To be worth doing something is a common expression. It means that something is useful or important enough to do:
A: I haven’t had a reply to my email to Jane. Is it worth phoning her, do you think? (Would it be useful to phone her?)
B: You could try, I suppose.
We decided it wasn’t worth going all the way to London to buy books we could get on the Internet.
To be worth it means ‘to be of reasonable or good value for the price:
A business class ticket cost £2,000, but it was worth it for such a long flight. It was very comfortable
Check tomorrow’s blog post for the words travel and trip. 😉
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pt/gramatica/gramatica-britanica/worth-or-worthwhile
New week, new month, new and ongoing challenges. We have already learned the difference between hill and mountain. Now let’s enjoy what we’ve learned.
Hills and mountains are both natural land formations that rise out of the landscape. Unfortunately, there is no universally accepted standard definition for the height of a mountain or a hill. This can make it difficult to differentiate between the two.
There are characteristics that we typically associate with mountains; for example, most mountains have steep slopes and a well-defined summit while hills tend to be rounded. This, however, is not always the case.
Though no one can agree on the heights of mountains and hills, there are a few generally accepted characteristics that define each.
In general, we think of hills as having a lower elevation than a mountain and a more rounded/mound shape than a distinct peak. Some accepted characteristics of a hill are:
Hills may have once been mountains that were worn down by erosion over many thousands of years.
Though a mountain is typically taller than a hill, there is no official height designation. An abrupt difference in local topography is often described as a mountain, and such features will often have ‘mount’ or ‘mountain’ in their name.
Some accepted characteristics of a mountain are:
Of course, there are exceptions to these assumptions and some features that would otherwise be called “mountains” have the word “hills” in their name.
https://www.thoughtco.com/difference-between-hill-and-mountain-4071583