Monday Flashcards

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Learn from Content of Interest

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If you are interested you will try harder (esforçar-se mais) to understand.

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Writing

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The report will point out your mistakes.

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Copycat

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  • Cc - the copied cat - came five years later, in Texas, in the USA (O Cc - o gato copiado - surgiu cinco anos depois, no Texas, nos EUA)
  • Well, one of the Texas scientists claimed (alegou) serious scientific reasons for cloning a cat.
  • They grow to love their pets very much (Eles passam a amar muito seus animais de estimação)
  • For such people, the death of the pet is a very painful thing (Para essas pessoas, a morte do animal de estimação é algo muito doloroso.)
  • Some of them will pay a lot of money to avoid such pain (evitar)
  • The company behind the cat clone experiments is ‘Genetic Savings and Clone’ (A empresa por trás dos experimentos com clones de gatos é a “Genetic Savings and Clone”)
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Copycat 2

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  • Savings and Clone sounds like ‘savings and loan’ In America a ‘savings and loan’ is an organisation that helps people save money now because they hope to buy a home later (Savings and Clone soa como “poupança e empréstimo” Nos Estados Unidos, uma “poupança e empréstimo” é uma organização que ajuda as pessoas a economizar dinheiro agora porque esperam comprar uma casa mais tarde)
  • She has just had her cat’s DNA stored by Savings and Clone (Ela acabou de ter o DNA de seu gato armazenado pela Savings and Clone)
  • smokey the cat is nineteen years old (fumaça)
  • When she heard about the cloning treatment she was happy (Quando ela soube do tratamento de clonagem, ficou feliz)
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Introducing

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  • It is nice, but there is no good job for me (É bom, mas não há um bom emprego para mim)
  • let’s try that again (Vamos tentar novamente)
  • she is new to d.c. (ela é nova na capital)
  • she is nice (legal, simpática)
  • remember to call marsha at work (Lembre-se de ligar para a Marsha no trabalho)
  • tell her you’re here (diga a ela que você está aqui)
  • Anna: Right, thanks, Pete. Nice to meet you! Jonathan: You too, Bye. (Igualmente)
  • Here I come (aqui vou eu)
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I’m here

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  • is there a supermarket near here (aqui perto)
  • Is this marsha? (É a Marsha?) It is Anna (É a Anna)
  • Is that you? (É você?)
  • the supermarket is at 1500 irving street (fica na)
  • Until next time (até a próxima)
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What is it?

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  • How are you two?
  • I know I have a pen, though… (mas)
  • and it is a pillow (e é um travesseiro)
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Spend the time

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  • the seven secrets to successful language learning (para um aprendizado de idiomas bem-sucedido)
  • four of them since the age of 50 (quatro deles desde os 50 anos de idade)
  • I will tell you what works for me; you’ll have to decide if this can work for you (Eu lhe direi o que funciona para mim; você terá de decidir se isso pode funcionar para você)
  • I don’t mean sit in a classroom, I don’t mean answer questions or drills (Não me refiro a sentar em uma sala de aula, não me refiro a responder perguntas ou exercícios)
  • Be with the language, so listen to the language (Esteja com o idioma, portanto, ouça o idioma)
  • listen to songs that are sung in the language (cantada)
  • If you have friends who speak the language, spend time with them (que, passe algum tempo)
  • because you don’t speak well enough to really say very much (porque você não fala bem o suficiente para dizer muita coisa)
  • we have these very convenient little listening devices (temos esses pequenos dispositivos de escuta muito convenientes)
  • mp3 player which can carry vast libraries of interesting content (mp3 que pode carregar vastas bibliotecas de conteúdo interessante)
  • wherever you want to find them (onde quer que você queira encontrá-los)
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Spend time 2

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  • in which case you’re afraid to speak up (Nesse caso, você tem medo de se manifestar)
  • Some of them are worse than you and so you find it annoying to listen to them, perhaps, I know I do (Alguns deles são piores do que você e, por isso, talvez você ache irritante ouvi-los, como eu acho)
  • and don’t let too many days go by where you don’t spend time with the language (e não deixe passar muitos dias sem passar tempo com o idioma)
  • that means how different it is from your native language (isso significa o quanto ele é diferente de seu idioma nativo)
  • or from a language you already speak (ou de um idioma que você já fala)
  • If you can only spend an hour a day, it could be six months to a year, two years. (Se você puder passar apenas uma hora por dia, pode levar de seis meses a um ano, dois anos)
  • there is no shortcut to fluency (atalho)
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Patterns 5

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  • She complained a lot, which I didn’t agree with. (Com isso)
  • These are the kinds of things that bother me.
  • You are in a hurry, in which case it is best if you leave now (Se você estiver com pressa, é melhor ir embora agora)
  • These are the means by which these goals are achieved (Esses são os meios pelos quais essas metas são alcançadas)
  • The rumours, according to which the leader had stolen money, proved to be correct (Os rumores, segundo os quais o líder havia roubado dinheiro, provaram ser corretos)
  • The car in which the children were riding was in an accident (O carro em que as crianças estavam sofreu um acidente)
  • I am thinking that I should quit this job. (Estou achando que devo deixar esse emprego.)
  • When I start work, everyone is already at the office (Quando começo a trabalhar, todos já estão no escritório)
  • When he arrives here, we will take him to lunch (Quando ele chegar aqui, nós o levaremos para almoçar)
  • because he took my sandwich (pegou)
  • Just because I am new here is no reason to make fun of me. (O fato de eu ser novo aqui não é motivo para zombar de mim.)
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Karen gets a cat (ganha)

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  • karen is bored at work and at home (karen está entediada no trabalho e em casa)
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