Gastronomy

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13 frases em inglês sobre Comida

Olá Pessoal! Vejam a seguir alguns dos principais tipos de comida e exemplos de uso comuns. Espero que gostem.

• Lista de tipos de alimentos em inglês com tradução

1. Batata Frita: French fries ou Fries (AmE); Chips (BrE)

Ex.: He doesn’t go a day without eating French fries. (Ele não fica um dia sem comer batata frita.)

2. Chocolate: Chocolate

Ex.: Chocolate makes you fat. Who cares? (Chocolate engorda. E dai?)

3. Churrasco: Barbecue

Ex.: Brazil is the land of barbecue. (O Brasil é a terra do churrasco.)

4. Sorvete: Ice cream

Ex: Children spend all their allowances on ice cream. (As crianças gastam toda a mesada com sorvete.)

5. Pão: Bread

Ex: Six bread rolls, please. (Seis pães, por favor.)

6. Salada: Salad

Ex.: She’s been eating a lot of salad. Maybe she wants to lose weight. (Ela anda comendo muita salada. Talvez queira perder peso.)

7. Doces: Candy

Ex: Too much candy is bad for your teeth. (Doce demais faz mal para os dentes.)

8. Arroz: Rice

Ex.: Rice is the main staple food for more than half the world’s population. (O arroz é a base da comida de mais da metade da população mundial.)

9. Feijão: Beans

Ex.: Do you eat rice and beans every day? (Vocês comem arroz com feijão todo dia?)

10. Pizza: Pizza

Ex: They are having a special on pizzas. (Eles estão fazendo uma promoção nas pizzas.)

11. Bolo: Cake

Ex.:Those cakes are on special. (Aqueles bolos estão em promoção.)

12. Carne: Meat

Ex.: It was like eating prime meat. They are great cooks. (Foi como comer carne de primeira. Eles são ótimos cozinheiros.)

13. Macarrão: Spaghetti

Ex.: I’ll make spaghetti for dinner. Could you lend me a hand? (Vou fazer macarrão para o jantar. Poderia me dar uma mão?)

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Gramma Focus, Prepositions

Source: www.englishexercises.org Author: Fadime 16 prepositions at/on/in 1.      I get up  7 o’clock every day   2.      I was born 21 May   3.      Mary likes to go to the seaside summer   4.      Steve reads the newspaper the morning   5.      We are going to the picnic the weekend   6.      My mother is home now, but I’m work   7.      My friend was born 1975   8.      I will be back 5 minutes   9.      His brother is going to get married the age of 25   10. We have English lessons Monday and Wednesday   11. They are busy the moment   12. Olga and Nick arrived the same time

Words and Their Stories: It Will Not Wash

 

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I'm Susan Clark with the Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES.

Young Mister Smith had an idea for his employer. It was an idea for saving money for the company by increasing prices. At the same time, Smith suggested that the company sell goods of less value.

If his employer liked the idea, Smith might be given more pay. Perhaps he might even get a better job with the company.

Business had been very slow. So Mister Smith's employer thought a few minutes about the idea. But then she shook her head. "I am sorry, Smith," his employer said. "It just will not wash."

Now, the meaning of these English words should be, "It will not get clean."  Yet Smith's idea did not have anything to do with making something clean. So why did his employer say, "It will not wash?"

Most word experts agree that "it will not wash" means it will not work.  Eric Partridge wrote that the saying probably developed in Britain in the eighteen hundreds. Charlotte Bronte used it in a story published in eighteen forty-nine. She wrote, "That wiln't wash, miss." Mizz Bronte seems to have meant that the dyes used to color a piece of clothing were not good. The colors could not be depended on to stay in the material.

In nineteenth century England, the expression came to mean an undependable statement. It was used mainly to describe an idea. But sometimes it was used about a person.

A critic once said of the poet Robert Browning, "He won't wash." The critic did not mean that the poet was not a clean person.  He meant that Browning's poems could not be depended on to last.

Today, we know that judgment was wrong.  Robert Browning still is considered a major poet.  But very few people remember the man who said Browning would not wash.

Happily for the young employee Smith, his employer wanted him to do well in the company. So the employer "talked turkey" to him. She said, "Your idea would be unfair to our buyers. Think of another way to save money."

A century ago, to talk turkey meant to talk pleasantly. Turkeys in the barnyard were thought to be speaking pleasantly to one another. In recent years, the saying has come to mean an attempt to teach something important.

Word expert Charles Funk tells how he believes this change took place.

He says two men were shooting turkeys together. One of them was a white man. The other was an American Indian. The white man began stating reasons why he should get all the turkeys for himself. But the American Indian stopped him. He told the white man, "Now, I talk turkey to you."

Mister Smith thought of a better idea after his employer talked turkey to him. He was given an increase in pay. So if your idea "will not wash," try"talking turkey" to yourself and come up with a better idea.

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This WORDS AND THEIR STORIES program was written by Jeri Watson. I'm Susan Clark.

Laws and Courts

The History of Halloween

 

Author: Judith Jekel

                                                      Source: www.englishexercises.org

                                                                

Watch the video and tick the correct answers to the following questions.

                                           1 How long have Halloween traditions been around?

For 180 years        For centuries          For 100 years

2 Where did the Celts live?

In Africa        In Asia              In Europe

3 What did the Celts celebrate on Oct 31^st?

The end of the harvest season             Christmas        Halloween

4 What did the Celt do on Samhain?

      They lit bonfires to scare the dead away.

                                                     They wore very thin clothes

                                                     They gathered in their houses and had a big meal.

5 What was the original name of All Saints’ Day?

Halloween               Holy Night                Hallowmas

6 When was Halloween imported to America?

In the 1840s          In the 1930s               In the 1940s

7 Which of the following was not a Halloween custom in those days?

Bobbing apples           Trick-or-treating               Playing tricks

8 When did Halloween become dangerous?

In the 1920s                   In the 1930s               In the 1940s

9 How long has “Trick-or-Treat” been a holiday greeting?

For about 90 years             For about 80 years            For about 70 years

What spooky Halloween figures do the following definitions refer to?

A zombieghostvampirebanshee is the spirit of a dead person, sometimes represented as a pale, almost transparent image

A vampirewerewolfghostghoulis a dead person who comes back to life and sucks blood from other people at night

A zombieghoulbansheewerewolf is someone who changes into a wolf at the time of the full moon 

A zombiewitchwizardbanshee is a woman who has magical powers

A ghoulzombiebansheewitch is an evil spirit that eats dead bodies

A witchwerewolfbansheezombieis a female spirit in traditional Irish stories whose crying sound tells you that someone in your family is going to die

A vampirezombieghoulwerewolf is a reanimated human corpse

 

Now match the figures with their images.

 

                         

 

                 

 

                         

 

 

 

                                                                   

These Were the Days of Our Lives

By Queen

Source: www.englishexercises.org

Author: Teacher Lucka from Brazil

Sometimes I get to feelin’
I  back in the old days - long ago
When we  kids when we  young
Thing  so perfect - you know
The days  endless we  crazy we young
The sun  always shinin’ - we just  for fun
Sometimes it seems like lately - I just don't know
The rest of my life’s been just a show

Those  the days of our lives
The bad things in life  so few
Those days are all gone now but one thing is true
When I look and I find I still love you

You can't turn back the clock you can't turn back the tide
Ain't that a shame
I'd like to go back one time on a roller coaster ride
When life  just a game
No use in sitting and thinkin’ on what you 

When you can lay back and enjoy it through your kids
Sometimes it seems like lately - I just don't know
Better sit back and go with the flow

Cos these are the days of our lives
They've flown in the swiftness of time
These days are all gone now but 

I. Find in the song words/expressions that mean ...

1. recently - 

2. linger - 

3. representaion - 

4. direction - 

5. time - 

6. pity - 

7. speed - 

8. uninterrupted - 

9. long gone - 

10. foolish - 

11. a trip in a motor vehicle - 

12. amusement - 

13. gamble; wager - 

14. modification - 

15. current; flood - 

II - Match the phrasal verbs to their meanings.

(1) go back

(2) lay back

(3) sit back

(4) turn back

 to wait for something to happen without making any effort to do anything yourself 

 to return to a place where you were or where you have been before
 to return to the place that you came from, or to make someone do this
 to move from a sitting position to a lying position by lowering the top half of your body

podenglish, lesson 70, computer

Language level: Upper intermediate
Souce: Podenglish