This is You’ve Got A Friend performed by the worldwide cast of Beautiful (in quarantine) for The Actors Fund.
Listening to this song is good enought, but to make it even better, go to lyricstraining, select a game mode from beginners to expert, and work on the lyrics! It’s so fun and it’s a super way of learning and practicing your English!
“When you’re down…” You know what ‘down’ means! We have already looked at that! So now, enjoy the song!
Four months of Blog posts, which would result in an extensive list if I added the links here. So scroll downandreaalthoff.com.br, to view them.
So now I want to show you a few more useful phrasal verbs, a verb and expressions, all in context, through this beautiful, inspiring message.
I can’t take it anymore!
This sentence is used when a person is annoyed very much, that he or she cannot mentally, emotionally, or physically deal with or adjust to something or someone anymore.
Portuguese learners like to say that there isn’t a word for “saudades” in English. But there’s not really accurate. The truth is, that there isn’t a noun that is used the same way as the Portuguese noun.
However, miss, a verb, in the context of the video, means to feel sad because you do not have something or cannot do something you had or did before: I miss the car, but the bus system is good.
Aside from that, miss verb, means to feel sad because someone you love is not with you: She missed her family badly.
Think tomyself
“And I think to myself…”
That’s a verb + preposition. Think of/about is used to ask someone for their opinion: What do you think of your new school?
Pass away
To die – use this when you want to avoid saying the word ‘die’. Check the Blog post for more.
Get through
To come successfully to the end of an unpleasant experience or period of time, or to help someone do this: I know we’re going to get through the pandemic.
What about a great message of encouragement? That’s the farewell of HEINEKEN CEO Jean-François van Boxmeer.
Listen carefully to it! His pronunciation is so clear! Write down the transcript! Let’s look closely at the words and how they combine together. You can check how many useful words are pronounced and used, like the word: worth.
What are the few simple lessons he shared? What do you think about these tips?
Now, concerning the difficult times we’re going through, what does he say? Does his message put you in low spirits?
In these last few weeks, we’ve been talking about the COVID-19 from many different perspectives. We were first introduced to it, by a quick look at the Coronavirus. Then we learned the instructions you can give to other people in order for them to stay safe. Next we had some food for thought, another good message, a nice song and one more wise message about fear.
The following video is going to teach you a few more important words and combinations of words like: herd immunity, containment, social distance, mild symptons and flatten the curve.
Watch these videos carefully in order to state your opinion about it. Remember, the purpose of these videos is solely to give us language to discuss what we’ve all been going through. There are no ideological or political purposes.
With all respiratory diseases, the only thing that stops the disease is herd immunity. About 80% of the people need to have had contact with the virus, and the majority of them won’t even have recognized that they were infected, or they had very, very mild symptoms, especially if they are children. So, it’s very important to keep the schools open and kids mingling to spread the virus to get herd immunity as fast as possible, and then the elderly people, who should be separated, and the nursing homes should be closed during that time, can come back and meet their children and grandchildren after about 4 weeks when the virus has been exterminated.”
Dr. Knut Wittkowki, is the head of the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design at the Rockefeller University in New York City.
The Rockefeller University is a private graduate university in New York City. It focuses primarily on the biological and medical sciences and provides doctoral and postdoctoral education. Rockefeller is the oldest biomedical research institute in the United States.
In these last few weeks, we’ve been talking about the COVID-19 from many different perspectives. We were first introduced to it, by a quick look at the Coronavirus. Then we learned the instructions you can give to other people to stay safe. Next we had some food for thought. Then another good message, and finally a nice song.
Now we’re going to listen to what Wakya Un Mani, also known as Vernon Foster, a Lakota Chief and Spiritual Leader, has to say about this disease.
