Pro-jovem, part 21, Ingles vip

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Boss:Good morning Mariana. How are you today?
Mariana: Not good. I have the flu(1)Boss: Really? How are you feeling?(2)
Mariana: My back hurts(3), my head(4) hurts, my nose is runny(5)Boss: Do you want to go home?
Mariana: No, I'm fine.
Boss: Well, if you need me, I'm at my office OK?

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Mariana: Thanks for calling us
Workmate: Do you have the flu?(6)Mariana: Yes, I do
Workmate: You should see a doctor(7). You can't work like that!
Mariana:  Yes
Boss: Mariana, your eyes are closing
Mariana: I don't feel good. I think I should(8) go to a doctor
Boss: I have a sister that is a doctor. Let me call her and set an appointment(9). Hello Sis! How are you? I'm fine,working a lot(10), and you? Listen, I have a friend that is not feeling good. Can she come to your office? OK, thanks Sis. She's coming over(11). OK bye bye. I'll call you later(12). All set(13) Mariana. She can see you right now(14) . You should go
Mariana: Thank you

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                                      Vocabulary
 1.  Flu = gripe
 2. How are you feeling? = Como você está se sentindo?
 3. My back hurts = Minhas costas estão doendo
 4. Head = Cabeça
 5. My nose is runny = Meu nariz está escorrendo
 6. Do you have the flu?  = Você está gripada?
 7. You should see a doctor =  Você deveria ver um médico
 8.  I think I should = Eu acho que eu deveria
 9. Set an appointment = Marcar um horário
 10. Working a lot = Trabalhando muito
 11. She's coming over =  Ela está indo
 12. I'll call you later = Eu te ligo mais tarde
 13. All set = Tudo marcado
 14. Right now = Agora


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Science

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ICE swimming

What happens in the body?

       Blood vessels contract, blood pressure rises.

       Blood circulation increases.

       Pulse slows down.

       Skin temperature fails.

       Stress hormone level rises (noradrenalin, kortisol).

       Sympathic nerve system is activated, offering a pain-reducing effect.

      

Special effect: Person does not feel cold for some time after dip, but after 10-20 minutes, body’s resources get depleted and one starts chilling and shivering.

       Sauna use is common, cycling from sauna into water and back.

       Average duration of dip: 10 seconds to several minutes.

       Risks: Large temperatures difference may have negative impact on cardiovascular system.

       Don’t ice swim alone.

National traditions

       Ice swimming is known in Northern Europe, Russia, China, parts of North America.

Therapeutic effects

       May build resistance to diseases such as flu.

       Strong anti-depressant effect.

       May help high or low blood pressure suffers.

       May help in suffers of chronic gastrointestinal diseases.

Ice swimmers recommend swimming regularly (at least 2-3 times a week) for these effects.

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Tangled: magic hair and adventure

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Movies

Tangled: magic hair and adventure

This entertaining animated film tells the story of Rapunzel, a teenager with very long, magic hair, who lives alone in a tower

       

    Tangled [1] was the most-watched film in Brazil in the first three weeks of January. Produced by Disney, the film is inspired by the fairytale [2] 

“Rapunzel,” written in the 19th century by the Brothers Grimm.  In the original story, Rapunzel is separated from her parents as a baby and raised [3] by a witch [4] called Mother Gothel.  She is trapped [5] in a high tower for several years, unable [6]  to cut her hair, until she isrescued [7] by a prince. In the version created by Disney, Rapunzel is a beautiful teenage girl with magical, 21-meter-long, golden hair. 

There is no prince charming [8], but there is a bumbling thief[9], called Flynn Ryder. After another robbery [10], he flees [11] in search of a safe place to hide. But he chose the wrong place: the tower where Rapunzel is being kept. At first Rapunzel is suspicious [12] of the strange visitor, but after a while she sympathizes with him. She realizes [13] that the good looking [14] thief may help get her out of the tower to learn about a world that she has never known. Together they will experience great adventures and fun along with two other charming characters: a chameleon [15] and a white horse.

Matéria publicada na edição de fevereiro (número 59) da Revista Maganews.

Áudio – David Hatton

Vocabulary

 1 tangled – enrolado (to tangle = enrolar)

2 fairytale – conto de fadas

3 raised – criada

4 witch – bruxa

5 trapped – aqui = confinada

6 unable – aqui = sem poder

7 to rescue – resgatar / salvar

8 prince charming – príncipe encantado

9 bumbling thief – ladrão atrapalhado

10 robbery – roubo / furto

11 to flee – fugir

12 suspicious – suspeita / desconfia

13 to realize – perceber

14 good looking – bonito

15 chameleon – camaleão

Dark Chocolate

Researchers found that six weeks of daily consumption of a dark chocolate cocoa mix significantly improved the blood vessel health of those who participated in the study.

The study is the latest in a growing number that link reduced heart disease risk to flavonoids in dark chocolate and other food and beverages, such as red wine, green tea and dark colored fruits and vegetables.

“There are hundreds if not thousands of flavonoids in every plant substance we eat”, said James Stein, director of preventive cardiology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

“This is a very hot are. This study confirms what other investigators have found”.

Flavonoids have been found to relax blood vessels and thereby improve blood flow, inhibit platelets from sticking together in the blood, and have beneficial antioxidant effect. What still is not known in whether regularly eating dark chocolate, especially with its sugar and fat content, eventually will lead to an unhealthy weight gain that would erase the beneficial effects of the flavonoids found in the cocoa.

Cocoa is one of the most concentrated sources of the flavonoids catechin and epicatechin.

Consuming foods such as dark chocolate and red wine can be a double-edged sword, Stein said.

They shouldn’t be considered healthy foods, he said. “They are treats and shouldn’t be staples in the diet.”

“If they are used to replace a high-calories food with little or no nutrition, such as soda, then they may be beneficial,” he said.

The study involved 39 people with an average age of 52 who, on average, were mildly obese.

There were three six week sessions, and each person consumed a separate preparation in each session: a Hershey dark chocolate cocoa mix with sugar (230 calories); a Hershey mix that was artificially sweetened (45 calories).

Doctors used ultrasound to measure blood flow in an artery in the arm, a test that corresponds well to heart disease risk.

The artificially sweetened cocoa mix was associated with about a 37 percent improvement in blood flow. The sugared cocoa was associated with a 23 percent improvement, suggesting that sugar actually interferes with the beneficial actions of flavonoids. The placebo mix resulted in a 12 percent reduction in blood flow.

This tells you that it (cocoa) is cardio-protective said lead author Valentine Njike, a physician and researcher at Yale University School of Medicine.

He noted that the biggest effect was found with the cocoa that did not have sugar. And he said that other research indicates that milk chocolate does not have a beneficial effect.

Rosenson also said that the beneficial blood flow effect of cocoa usually diminishes with six hours, meaning that it might have to be consumed several times a day to obtain a continuous improvement.

For that reason and due to concern about calories, the ultimate answer may come in the form of a so-called biopharmaceutical, a pill that contains concentrated amounts of the desired flavonoids and no fat or sugar, he said,AE.

Curiosities about chocolate:

Chocolate drops blood pressure

A square of dark chocolate a day reduces blood pressure in healthy people ages 56 to 63 have borderline hypertension.

How much benefit?

Average drop of 2.9 in systolic and 1,9 in diastolic blood pressure.

Why does it happen?

Cocoa contains polyphenois. which make blood vessels relax.

High-calorie?

One square (6,3g) of chocolate contains only 30 calories.

Vocabulary:

Flavonoid (s): Any of a large group of water-soluble plant pigments, including the anthocyanins, which are beneficial to health (qualquer membro do grande grupo de pigmentos de plantas solúveis em água, como as antocianina que fazem bem a saúde).

Hot area: New and exciting area or issue, of intense and immediate interest (area ou tema novo e empolgante que provoca interesse imediato e intenso).

Platelet (s): A tiny colorless disk-shaped particle found in large quantities in the blood and playing an important part in the clotting process (minuscule particular incolor em formato de disco encontrada em grandes quantidades no sangue e que desempenha um papel importante no processo de coagulação).

Double-edged sword: Something that has or can have both favorable and unfavorable consequence (algo que tem ou pode ter consequências favoráveis e desfavoráveis).

Treat (s): An especially unexpected source of joy, delight, or amusement (fonte inesperada de alegria, prazer ou diversão).

Staple (s): Basic food (alimento básico).

Whey: The watery liquid that separetes from the solid part of milk when it turns sour or when enzymes are added in cheese making (liquido aquoso que se separa da parte sólida do leite quando este azeda ou quando enzimas são adicionadas para a produção do queijo).

The lead author: The most important or main author: O autor é o mais importante ou o principal

Diminishe (s): decrease in size, extent, or range (diminue em tamanho, extensão ou alcance).

What's their real name?

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Language level: Intermediate

Standard: British accent

DYLAN MADONNA YUSUF ISLAM EMINEM SHAKIRA SADE TINA TURNER DEAN MARTIN What’s Their Real Name?

 Madonna

EMINEM

Why do stars and celebrities have such weird names? How do they choose stage names of pseudonyms? Are they conscious attempts to sound different?

SIMPLICITY AND STYLE

Some unusual names are in fact real. Madonna Ciccone decided that her first name alone made her instantly identifiable. So did Bjork Gudmundsdottir, Prince Nelson, Anastacia Newkirk and Shakira Ripoll. Cherilyn Sarkisian simplified hers to Cher. Stephen Patrick Morrissey decided his surname was enough to make him famous.

What if someone else already has your name? David Jones changed his name to David Bowie for two reasons: the first was that he liked the famous Bowie knife; the second was that the Monkees singer was called Davy Jones. The Smiths’ guitarist Johnny Marr changed his spelling to avoid confusion with The Buzzocks’ drummer, John Maher.

Reginald Kenneth Dwight sounds boring and old-fashioned, so Elton John created his glamorous moniker from blues musicians, Elton Dean and Long John Baldry.

Thomas Jones woodward’s manager simply renamed him Tom Jones emphasizing his Welsh background and recalling the sex main character in the 1963 Oscar-winning film of the same name.

Others make their names less exotic. Dino Crocetti tried being Dino Martini but later settled on the more American-sounding Dean Martin. Robert Zimmerman invoked Wild West character, Matt Dillon, and Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, by renaming himself Bob Dylan.

Farrokh Bulsara, renamed Freddie by English schoolfriends, chose Mercury (the planet and metal) to represent his shimmering rock star image. Steve Demetre Georgiou hid Greek origins with the name Cat Stevens; now he prefers Yusuf Islam. John Deutschendorf doesn’t sound like a country singer: John Denver does. Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou is difficult to remember, but George Michael sounds like a star.

NICKNAMES & HANDLES

Some mistakes simply “stick.” Did Gordon Summer choose the name Sting because of his spiky politics? No, his old jazz band leader re-christened him because of his black and yellow stripe sweater.

Paul Hewson was nicknamed Bono Vox (good voice) after a Dublin hearing-aid shop, as his voice seemed so loud, even deaf people would hear it. Bono in turn re-baptized Dave Evans, U2’s guitarist, The Edge because of his sharp features and outsiders viewpoint.

Rap artists use nicknames or “handles” to describe their opportunity. O’Shea Jackson is cool as an Ice Cube.  Marshall Mathers pronounced his real initials like M&Ms (the chocolates), to invent the name Eminem; he is a.k.a (as known as) Slim Shady, slang for a whit person who acts as though he is black. Some names invoke feelings or attitudes. Declan MacManus joined the king of rock’n’ roll’s first name with his mother’s Irish surname, to make Elvis Costello.  Richard Starkey wore rings and liked the Ringo Kid in John Wayne’s western, Stagecoach, so he became Ringo Starr.

ATTITUDE PROBLEM

Rock stars love alternative names, Vincent Damon Furrier may be the reincarnation of a 17^th century witch named Alice Cooper; or did he adopt this girlish name to clash with his controversial gothic style? James Osterberg, formerly of The Iguanas, borrowed his surname form his friend, Popp, who lost his eyebrows, after chemotherapy: perhaps this inspired Iggy Pop’s lam rock look.   Guns’n’Roses singer William Rose changed his name to Axl Rose, an unusual name, but not shocking – until you realize it’s an anagram of Oral Sex. Sex Pistol John Lydon earned the name Johnny Rotten from his bad teeth and bad attitude. When Rotten’s hamster bit John Simon Ritchie, he earned the ironic name, Sid Vicious. Although the drug-addicted bass player was later arrested for his girlfriend’s murder, Rotten Claimed that Sid “couldn’t punch his way out of a paper bag.”

Punks also change their names for more practical reasons. Joe Strummer of The Clash and Rat Scabies of The Damned couldn’t use their real names (John Gordon Mellor and Christopher Miller), in case they lost their unemployment benefit.

More Pseudonymous Pop Stars (no audio)

Rick Martin             Enrique Martins Morales

Tina Turner             Annie Mae Bullock

Dido                       Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong

Sade                      Helen Folasade Adu

Pink (or Plnk)          Alecia Moore

Syd Barrett             Roger Barrett

Michael Bolton         Michael Bolotin

Fatboy Slim            Quetin Cook (a.k.a Norman Cook)

Moby                     Richard Melville Hall

Shoggy                  Orville Richard Burrell

Snoop Dogg            Cordazer Calvin Broadus

LL Cool J                James Todd Smith

Grandmaster Flash   Joseph Saddler

Vanilla Ice              Robert Van Winkie

Pluff Daddy             Sean John Combs

Marilyn Manson               Brian Warner

Shania Twain          Elleen Regina Edwards

Dusty Springfield             Mary O’Brien

Joni Mitchell            Roberta Joan Anderson

Lou reed                Louis Firbank 

A Brief History of Carnival

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A brief history of Carnival

This party was around in Brazil's colonial times, but it only became a really popular event at the beginning of the 20th Century

   

According to some historians, Brazil’s carnival celebrations were around in colonial times. In the 17th Century the Portuguese brought “entrudo” to Brazil, which was a very different “carnival” from today’s, as it had no music and the party was nothing more than fun between people. From the 1840s the first masked balls appeared in Brazil. However, the great popularization of carnival only began at the beginning of the 20^th Century, when this party became more attractive, with marchinhas (a kind of carnival music), samba, samba ‘schools,’ and various other ingredients. In the 1930s carnival was in its golden age, thanks to the development of radio and, mainly, thanks to the fantastic work done by composers such as Ary Barroso, Lamartine Babo, Braguinha and Noel Rosa.

The 1930s: The Golden Age of Brazilian Carnival

The carnival marchinhas began to appear in the 1920s, but it was from the 1930s that the most beautiful marchinhas in Brazilian carnivals were created. Those marchinhas were such creative songs, so happy and fun that they were contagious for Brazilians and transformed the 1930s into The Golden Age of Brazilian Carnival. At that time, radio began to take off in the country and it was fundamental in spreading the beautiful carnival music to the main Brazilian cities. Some of the biggest hits of all time in Brazilian carnival were from that time. Marchinhas such as Mamãe eu Quero, Me dá Um Dinheiro Aí and Cidade Maravilhosa are popular even today. 

   Lamartine Babo and Braguinha are considered to be Brazil’s greatest composers of marchinhas. They were friends and even made music together, such as Cantores do Rádio. But besides the marchinhas they also created music of the most diverse styles. Braguinha, also known as João de Barro,  was born in Rio in March 1907. He has composed more than 400 songs – many of them becoming classics, such as Balancê, Pastorinhas and Carinhoso (in partnership with Pixinguinha).  In the 1940s, Braguinha was given a gold watch – a present from an illustrious fan called Walt Disney.

   The composer, singer and radio broadcaster Lamartine Babo was born in Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of the 20th Century. If he were still alive, he would have turned 100 years old on January 10th this year. He is considered to be the king of marchinhas and also the king of the carioca soccer fans.  This is because Lamartine is the writer of the club anthems for Botafogo, Flamengo, Fluminense and Vasco, besides also having composed the anthem for his favorite club, América. Co-writer of classics such as O Teu Cabelo Não Nega and No Rancho Fundo, Lamartine composed more than 350 songs of the most diverse musical styles.

Marchinhas in São Luiz do Paraitinga

São Luiz do Paraitinga, a small city of 10,000 people located in Vale do Paraíba, has one of the liveliest carnivals in the interior of São Paulo. Since the middle of the 1980s there have been competitions for carnival marchinhas there. The best songs are recorded on CD, played on the radio and are the soundtrack for the city’s carnivals.

Maganews Melhores Momentos – Matéria publicada na edição de n⁰ 19 da

Revista Maganews 

Foto - Xinica Medeiros

Ilustração: Calberto

Vocabulary

1 brief – breve

2 to be (was/were) around – estar no ar (no texto = já existia)

3 masked - mascarado

4 ball – baile

5 to take off – decolar / se espalhar

6 to spread - espalhar

7 lively – animado

8 soundtrack – trilha sonora

9  radio broadcaster – locutor de rádio

10 alive – vivo

11 soccer fan – torcedor de futebol

12 anthem - hino

13 co-writer – co-autor