Native speakers use this word frequently. Hectic means very busy or full of activity. If you start using it, you will sound more natural and more fluent when you’re speaking English.
Now watch the video to learn the pronunciationand a little more about the word hectic!
So did you get it? I hope you liked it! And that’s me below!!
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.
