listening november 1st

Question 1

sneak up on/to/behind

Answer 1

1 – Sneak up on/behind/to, “chegar de fininho”, “aproximar-se de mansinho/sorrateiramente/furtivamente”, “aproximar-se despercebido”.

• We don’t want the guards to see us, so we’ll need to sneak up from the back.
• I sneaked up on the cake, hoping no one would see me. Someone did.
  Eu me aproximei sorrateiramente do bolo, esperando que ninguém fosse me ver. Alguém viu.
• I snuck up behind him while he was reading.

2 – Sneak up on, “pegar/chegar de surpresa”, “chegar despercebido”.

• The deadline for the paper will sneak up on students who haven’t read the syllabus.
  O prazo para o trabalho vai chegar de surpresa para os estudantes que não leram o programa escolar.
• Sometimes our expectations sneak up on us unawares.
• sometimes the love can just sneak up on us, and we don´t even notice it
• Time had sneaked up on us and it was now December.

Question 2

snaps (on clothes)

Answer 2

A snap fastener, also called snap button, press stud, press fastener, dome fastener, popper, snap and tich (or tich button), is a pair of interlocking discs, made out of a metal or plastic, commonly used in place of traditional buttons to fasten clothing and for similar purposes.

Question 3

surge

Answer 3

/sɝːdʒ/
a sudden increase in sth
onda
- a surge of adrenaline in the bodyuma onda de adrenalina no corpo
- a surge of protests

a sudden and great increase
aumento repentino, subida, pico
- An unexpected surge in electrical power caused the computer to crash.
- There has been a surge in house prices recently.

surgir
crescer
- Troops surged into the city.
Tropas surgiram na cidade.
- Anger surged and burned within me.
A raiva crescia e queimava dentro de mim.

Question 4

rip up

Answer 4

tear something violently into small pieces so as to destroy it.
- in barbie and the charm school, those girls ripped up barbie´s uniform.
- She ripped up his letters and burned the pieces.

Question 5

where are you off to

Answer 5

Where are you off to?: Where are you going? Where are you heading to? In which direction are you going?

Question 6

scope out (the competition)

Answer 6

To examine in more detail, to take a closer look at.
Me: ‘Yo, let’s go scope out those honeys over there!’
You: ‘Okay.’

To check out. To obtain more information about a particular place or thing.

Question 7

rehearsal

Answer 7

/rəˈhɝː.səl/