What time do you go to bed?

Are you an early bird? Rising before everyone else. Getting a head start before the day begins.

Or are you a night owl? Staying up into the darkness. Working long after everyone else has given in for the day.

What do you think is more important: the time you “go to bed” or the sleep amount?

Aparentemente não há nada de extraordinário na palavra “bed”. Afinal, todos sabem, que “bed” significa “cama”. Assim, neste contexto, de ir dormir, ir para a cama para dormir, se diz: “go to bed”, sem o artigo, ou seja, não diga “go to the bed”!

Se você for colocar a criança para dormir, você dirá put to bed. Veja:

I’ll just put the children to bed.

Put the boys to bed around eight o’clock.

Há ainda, uma diferença entre: “in bed” e “on the bed”. Veja estas sentenças: she’s in bed e she’s on the bed. Bem, na primeira – she’s in bed – o sentido é de que a pessoa está na cama dormindo (ou ainda deitada na cama antes de se levantar, ou se ajeitando na cama para dormir). Já na segunda – she’s on the bed – significa que a pessoa está deitada sobre a cama (apenas lá deitada sem a intenção de dormir).

E o que você acha do quadro abaixo? Hehe…

Para outros usos da palavra “bed” , check here.

Make up your mind!

A student of mine told me that his daughter, who was on vacation, got mad at him when he, one day, woke her up at 8 o’clock in the morning. The next day, he woke her up at 10 am and she got mad at him again! So he said to her: “Come on Julia, make up your mind!”

make up your mind/make your mind up

a) to decide which of two or more choices you want, especially after thinking for a long time 

I wish he’d hurry up and make his mind up.

make up your mind/make your mind up about 

He couldn’t make up his mind about what to do with the money.

make up your mind whether 

Karen couldn’t make up her mind whether to apply for membership or not.

b) to become very determined to do something, so that you will not change your decision 

No more argument. My mind is made up.

make up your mind to do something 

He had clearly made up his mind to end the affair.

make up your mind that 

I made up my mind there and then that I would never get married.

c) to decide what your opinion is about someone or something

make up your mind/make your mind up about 

I could never really make my mind up about him

You’re old enough to make your own mind up about smoking.

Now, suppose that what’s written next happens to you.

Then, what would you say to them? Hehe… 😉

Click here to listen to the examples.

You drive me crazy!

Schools have just let out and this mom is already feeling like that!

We recently watched a German comedy in which a wife doesn’t let her husband sit around doing nothing. She says: “You’re really driving me crazy”, but she is the one who actually drives her husband crazy!

And I’m sure you feel like telling someone the same, in a couple of situations.

So, the phrase drive someone crazy means to make someone very upset or angry.

You’re driving me crazy with that arguing!

Well, okay! But I do really hope don’t you have many people around you who drive you crazy! 😉

It doesn’t hurt to ask!

Have you heard this phrase: “It doesn’t hurt to ask, or “It doesn’t hurt to say?

Watch the video below. Hermann finally has some free time to relax and sit around doing nothing, but his wife seems to have different plans. Listen carefully to what she says to him.

She says: “It wouldn’t hurt if you go for a walk.”

She means that he should go for a walk. She thinks that is a good idea.

If you say “It won’t hurt to do something” or “It never hurts to do something”, you are recommending an action which you think is helpful or useful.

It never hurts to ask.

It wouldn’t hurt you to be a bit more serious.

It doesn’t hurt to do something, also it doesn’t hurt to have something, means that it is an advantage to do or have, or cannot harm a situation.

I know he’s qualified for the job, but it doesn’t hurt that the company president is his mother’s best friend.

It doesn’t hurt to have money when you want to run for office.

Well, I hope you enjoyed learning that, because it never hurts to learn something new! 😉