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Sunday, November 29, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS
Try the exercises on Idiomatic Expressions in English and learn a new one every day.
Tip by Sidney Amaral, my new pupil, who is an Informatics expert. Thanks, Sidney.
Tip by Sidney Amaral
Thursday, November 12, 2009
THE ALPHABET (GOSPEL)
In case you have trouble memorizing the ALPHABET in English, try listening to Patti Labelle in Sesame Street singing it and let me know if it wasn't much easier and a lot of fun. Click on the title and you'll be directed to You Tube. Talk soon.
Friday, November 6, 2009
THE CONDITIONAL
If you can walk, you can dance.
If you can talk, you can sing.
If you can talk, you can sing.
Zimbabwe proverb
'If' is often used in conditional sentences to talk about uncertain events and unreal or imagined situations.
The if-clause often refers to something which must happen so that something else can happen –
The if-clause often refers to something which must happen so that something else can happen –
- If I see her, I’ll tell her to phone you (= I may or may not see her).
When we are not talking about unreal or imagined situations, we use the same tense in both parts of the sentence.
- If you want to learn another language, you have to study a lot.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
These should be in a dictionary.
ADULT/ADULTO:
A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.
BEAUTY PARLOUR/SALÃO DE CABELEIREIRO:
A place where women curl up and dye.
CANNIBAL/CANIBAL:
Someone who is fed up with people.
CHICKENS/GALINHAS:
The only animals you eat before they are born
and after they are dead.
COMMITTEE/COMITÊ:
A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
DUST/POEIRA:
Mud with the juice squeezed out.
EGOTIST/EGOÍSTA:
Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.
HANDKERCHIEF/LENÇO:
Cold Storage.
INFLATION/INFLAÇÃO:
Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.
MOSQUITO/MOSQUITO:
An insect that makes you like flies better.
RAISIN/PASSA:
Grape with a sunburn.
SECRET/SEGREDO:
Something you tell to one person at a time.
SKELETON/ESQUELETO:
A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.
TOOTHACHE/DOR DE DENTE:
The pain that drives you to extraction.
TOMORROW/AMANHÃ:
One of the greatest labour saving devices of today.
YAWN/BOCEJO:
An honest opinion openly expressed.
A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.
BEAUTY PARLOUR/SALÃO DE CABELEIREIRO:
A place where women curl up and dye.
CANNIBAL/CANIBAL:
Someone who is fed up with people.
CHICKENS/GALINHAS:
The only animals you eat before they are born
and after they are dead.
COMMITTEE/COMITÊ:
A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
DUST/POEIRA:
Mud with the juice squeezed out.
EGOTIST/EGOÍSTA:
Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.
HANDKERCHIEF/LENÇO:
Cold Storage.
INFLATION/INFLAÇÃO:
Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.
MOSQUITO/MOSQUITO:
An insect that makes you like flies better.
RAISIN/PASSA:
Grape with a sunburn.
SECRET/SEGREDO:
Something you tell to one person at a time.
SKELETON/ESQUELETO:
A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.
TOOTHACHE/DOR DE DENTE:
The pain that drives you to extraction.
TOMORROW/AMANHÃ:
One of the greatest labour saving devices of today.
YAWN/BOCEJO:
An honest opinion openly expressed.
WRINKLES/RUGAS:
Something other people have, similar to my character lines.
Something other people have, similar to my character lines.
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