To wrap up

O phrasal verb to wrap up é muito comum, e tem vários usos em inglês.

Os verbos frasais (phrasal verbs) são formados por um verbo e por uma partícula (advérbios ou preposições). Eles possuem um sentido que leva em consideração a sua unidade como um todo, isto é, o verbo + preposição ou o verbo + advérbio.

Já os idioms (expressões idiomáticas) são expressões consolidadas, próprias do idioma, e cujo significado não corresponde diretamente ao significado literal das palavras individualmente.

Vejamos alguns usos de WRAP UP:

1 – EMBRULHAR

  • Don’t forget to wrap up Dan’s present before you go to the party.
    Não se esqueça de embrulhar o presente do Dan antes de você ir para a festa.
  • Thank you! You don’t need to wrap it up. Obrigada! Não precisa embrulhá-lo/la.

2 – AGASALHAR

  • Wrap up well – it’s cold outside. Agasalhe-se bem – está frio lá fora.
  • I can hear my mother telling me to wrap up warm.
    Eu posso ouvir minha mãe dizendo-me para me agasalhar.

3 – ENCERRAR ou FINALIZAR

  • We need to wrap up this meeting and get back to work.
    Precisamos concluir esta reunião e voltar ao trabalho.
  • I can wrap up this little project in a week.
    Eu posso finalizar este pequeno projeto em uma semana.
  • She wrapped up a deal just before she left on vacation. Ela fechou um acordo pouco antes de sair de férias.

4 – RESUMIR

  • He wrapped the proposal up in the final paragraph.
    Ele resumiu a proposta no parágrafo final.
  • The reporter wrapped up the mayor’s speech in a few sentences.
    O repórter resumiu o discurso do prefeito em algumas frases.

5 – “Wrap up in“, como ESTAR ABSORVIDO EM / ENVOLVIDO COM

  • He’s so wrapped up in himself that he rarely calls me. Ele está tão absorto em si mesmo que ele raramente me liga.

Now listen carefully to this video to learn how Australians use the word WRAPPED (adjective) to describe a person’s feelings when they are extremely excited or happy about something. Take notes of the examples.

E se quiser além, assista o vídeo até o final para aprender expressões como:

WRAP AROUND (OR WRAP ROUND) – colocar algo em torno de outra coisa;

TO HAVE (SOMEONE) WRAPPED AROUND (ONE’S) FINGERidiom – ter total controle sobre alguém;

KEEP (SOMETHING) UNDER WRAPSidiom – dizer que algo está sendo mantido em segredo;

THAT’S (IT’S) A WRAP!idiom – anunciando o fim de algo

Write down the examples and look up the words you don’t know. 😉

What’s your word for 2022?

I believe that resiliency prevailed in 2021. 

Instead of making New Year’s resolutions that you probably won’t keep, choose a word that can make a positive impact and help guide your decisions over the next year to reach your goals

So, what word will you choose to guide you and give you focus in 2022?

In this video, January the first talks to us and shares a piece of advice.

And the word is movement.

Moving will help you get through the next 364 days with ease, she says.

Start the year doing that: moving. But not just the exercise kind of movement.

She means movement of the spirit, the soul, moving someone else’s heart.

January the first advises us to move to find the inspiration to create, to invent.

When we’re moving, there’s no time for fear, for doubts, because it pushes us forward, it makes us stronger, wiser.

Take her word. Write it down somewhere and put it into action.

It will make every single day of your year count.

It’s an inspirational message, but we can also learn the language we use in our day-to-day life. So here we go!

PIECE OF ADVICE

(Conselho) Advice is uncountable. We say a piece of advice (not ‘an advice’) and some advice (not ‘some advices’).

GET THROUGH​ something

(Lidar) To successfully deal with a problem or difficulty

I know we’re going to get through the pandemic.

WITH EASE

(Com facilidade) Without difficulty, easily

They won the game with ease.

TAKE SOMEONE’S WORD

(Acreditar na palavra de alguém) To believe someone without needing proof or evidence

I’ve lost my sense of smell, so I’ll have to take your word for any similarities to lavender in terms of scent.

WRITE (something) DOWN

(Anotar) To note, to scribble, to write (something); to put (something) to paper

I think I wrote it down wrong.

Now, what word will you choose to guide you and give you focus in 2022?

  • CONNECTION? It can mean a relationship or bond with another person, and it can also reference connecting with the present moment. 
  • CONTRIBUTION? It could mean an act or monetary donation, but it is about generosity.
  • CONFIDENCE? Focusing on what we are good at and what compliments our personality can help us achieve goals and boost confidence. We learn what we can do and when we need to ask for help.
  • OR MAYBE YES? A simple word, but it can have a strong impact.

My wish for you is to go forward and make a difference in anything that you choose to do. 😉

Figure it out!

The phrasal verb ‘to figure out is one of the most popular ones in English. So you need to understand it, as you will come across it very often.

Phrasal verbs are used a lot in spoken English, so to understand native speakers you need to know quite many of them.

Here is a challenge for you! You have only 30 seconds to ‘figure it out!’

So, were you able to figure the challenge out?

figure out

— phrasal verb /ˈfɪɡər/ US 

figure out something/somebody

figure something/somebody  out

1. to solve a problem or to think about something/somebody until you understand them/it

  • I’m trying to figure out a way to make this work.
  • We had to figure out the connection between the two events.
  • It takes time to figure out new software.
  • Don’t worry, we’ll figure something out. (=find a way to solve the problem).
  • We couldn’t figure her out.
  • Women. I just can’t figure them out.

figure out how/what/who/why 

  • I can’t figure out how to do this.
  • I couldn’t figure out what the teacher was talking about.
  • He was trying to figure out why the camera wasn’t working.

2. to calculate an amount or the cost of something

  •  Have you figured out how much the trip will cost?

Catch up: more meanings

The previous lesson explains the figurative meaning of to catch up, which is to talk with someone you know and you have not seen for some time to find out what they have been doing or to exchange or to learn the latest news or information.

Now we are going to review that and look at some different meanings. Listen carefully and take notes.

— phrasal verb /kætʃ/ past tense and past participle caught /kɔt/

  • to go faster so that you reach the person or vehicle in front of you

You go on ahead. I’ll catch you up in a minute. (catch somebody up)

We left before them, but they soon caught us up again. (catch somebody up)

If you hurry, you should catch up with them at the bridge.

She is really fast, and I couldn’t catch up with her.

fig. We’re a young, growing company, and we’re trying to catch up to the competition.

  • to do something that you have not been able, or did not have time to do earlier:

The deadline’s tomorrow. How are we ever going to catch up in time?

I just want to go home and catch up on some sleep.

I have to catch up on my reading.

She’s staying late at the office to catch up with/on some reports.

I have some work to catch up on.

https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/catch-up

What’s your idea of a happy life?

I always suggest my students that they go to TED, browse the library of talks, pick the one they like and listen to it, then work on the new vocabulary, and notice how words are combined.

So a student picked this moving and inspirational talk. Born with a rare genetic disorder called progeria, Sam Berns knew he’d be facing more obstacles in life than most. But this didn’t stop him from taking charge of his own happiness. Berns describes the three principles of the personal philosophy that allowed him to do so.

Before you watch it – watch and print the transcript here -, answer this question:

What is your idea of a happy life?

Can you list the three aspects to his philosophy? Do you agree with them?

Next, let’s look at some of the language we have been talking about in class, which we find in his talk.

“I’m Sam, and I just turned 17″.

turn verb (age/time) to become a particular age, or to reach a particular time

“So my family and I worked with an engineer to design a snare drum harness that would be lighter, and easier for me to carry”.

It is considered polite to mention oneself last in double subjects or objects.

Why don’t you and I go away for the weekend?

“I just want to give you some more information about Progeria”.

number or quantifier + more + noun

“When I can’t do something like run a long distance, or go on an intense roller coaster, I know what I’m missing out on“.

miss out phrasal verb
1 to not have the chance to do something that you enjoy and that would be good for you:
Some children miss out because their parents can’t afford to pay for school trips.
miss out on
Prepare food in advance to ensure you don’t miss out on the fun!

But instead, I choose to focus on the activities that I can do through things that I’m passionate about, like scouting, or music, or comic books, or any of my favorite Boston sports teams”.

verbs + prepositions

Now we’re kind of goofy, a lot of us are band geeks, but we really enjoy each other’s company, and we help each other out when we need to”.

kind + of = kinda e sort + of = sortaEssas palavras são usadas no geral para expressar a ideia de “um pouco” ou “meio”.

help out phrasal verb
to help someone because they are busy or have problems:
Do you need anyone to help out in the shop?

So the bottom line here, is that I hope you appreciate and love your family, love your friends, for you guys, love you Bro’s and acknowledge your mentors, and your community, because they are a very real aspect of everyday life, they can make a truly significant, positive impact.” 

the bottom line used to tell someone what the most important part of a situation is, or what the most important thing to consider is:
In radio you have to keep the listener listening. That’s the bottom line.

It could be anything from looking forward to the next comic book to come out, or going on a large family vacation, or hanging out with my friends, to going to the next High School football game”.

come out phrasal verb
if a book, record etc comes out, it becomes publicly available:
When is the new edition coming out?

hang out phrasal verb
informal to spend a lot of time in a particular place or with particular people
hang out with
I don’t really know who she hangs out with.
Where do the children hang out?

This is a friend of mine, who I look up to, Francis Collins, the director of the NIH, and this is us at TEDMED last year, chatting away“.

look up to somebody phrasal verb
to admire or respect someone:
I’ve always looked up to Bill for his courage and determination.

chat also chat away to talk in a friendly informal way, especially about things that are not important:
John and I sat up until the early hours chatting.

About four years ago, HBO began to film a documentary about my family and me called ‘Life According to Sam'”.

When the word in question is the object of a preposition and not the subject of a sentence or phrase, we should use the object pronoun.

Oh, wait, hang on a second, one more piece of advice” –- (Laughter)

hang on
used to ask or tell someone to wait [= hold on]:
Hang on! I’ll be back in a minute.

So, all in all, I don’t waste energy feeling bad for myself“. 

all in all

used for showing that you are considering every aspect of something

All in all, getting insufficient sleep is bad news.

All in all, I think it has been a successful conference.

We both thought that all in all it might not be a bad idea.

feel bad
to feel ashamed or sorry about something
feel bad about (doing) something
I felt bad about not being able to come last night.
feel bad for
I feel bad for Ann – she studied so hard for that test and she still didn’t pass.

Sam Berns died in 2014. He was a musician, Eagle Scout and junior at Foxboro High School in Massachusetts. Diagnosed at the age of two with a rare rapid-aging disease called Progeria, he spent much of his life raising awareness about the condition, eventually doing so on a national stage in the HBO documentary, “Life According to Sam.”

Okay…

So now, after having listened to this talk, has your idea of a happy life changed?