Tomorrow we celebrate the Proclamation of the Republic in Brazil, which represents the end of the monarchy and the establishment of the republic. I think it comes in handy now, to refresh our memories concerning what the Carwash Operation has accomplished.
The Carwash Operation (Operação Lava Jato) began as a local money laundering investigation and has grown into the largest investigation in Brazil. The state prosecutors from the Carwash Task Force have been on the front line of investigations in Brazil since April 2014. Dealing with one of the world’s biggest corruption scandals, the Petrobras case, they have investigated, prosecuted, and obtained heavy sentences against some of the most powerful members of Brazil’s economic and political elites.
We have already learnt how to talk about weight, diet, together with some good phrases for telling what might be happening during this time. Now we’re going to learn how to express height.
Listen carefully to the video.
How tall are you?I’m 183 cm tall.
or
What’s your height?My height is 183 cm.
We usetall mostly for people, trees, buildings with many floors, and a few other things like factory chimneys or electricity pylons, which are higher than they are wide.
How tall are you?
There are some beautiful tall trees in the park.
In other cases we usually prefer high.
Mount Elbrus is the highest mountain in Europe.
The garden has very high walls.
But in measurements, we use tall for people, and we prefer high for things.
Amanhã será feriado. Mas será um long weekend? Não. Para a maioria das pessoas, este final de semana não será um long weekend, não será um feriadão, ou seja, um fim de semana prolongado.
Sempre que um feriado cai próximo ao final de semana e algumas empresas, escolas, fazem um recesso na quinta e sexta, ou segunda e terça, chamamos em inglês de long weekend. Podemos dizer também, a three-day weekend, quando o feriado cai na sexta ou na segunda. Se o feriado cai na quinta, com recesso na sexta, ou na terça, com recesso na segunda, podemos chamá-lo de four-day weekend.
No inglês britânico o termo mais comum, que corresponde à feriado prolongado é bank holiday weekend.
Mas em breve haverá um long weekend, e tenho certeza que todos já estão pensando e fazendo planos para usufruí-lo. Será o…
E as perguntas mais comuns antes de um feriado prolongado são: Como será seu feriado? Com você passará o feriado? O que você fará neste feriado? Em inglês, você pode perguntar:
How is your long weekend going to be?
How are you going to spend your three-day weekend?
Where are you going to spend your long weekend?
What are you going to do this long weekend?
Agora que tal usarmos o vocabulário destas perguntas, acrescentando algo mais, para falarmos sobre este feriado de Proclamation of the Republic ou Republic Day?
Complete as frases:
1- Republic Day is a ___________________ and it __________________________ Friday this year.
(É feriado na Proclamação da República, e cai numa sexta-feira este ano.)
