Pro-jovem part 33, Inglês vip

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Radio's employee: Hello, good afternoon. How can I help you?
Pedro: Ah, you must be(1) her boss' sister(2)
Radio's employee: Oh, you must work with her. Ah, she told me you were coming. I used to work in that office too
Julia: This is so exciting(3)! When I was a little girl, I used to make radio programs with my friends. Now, I can't wait to see a real radio station.
Radio's employee: Hey, these are the people we met(4) on the internet yesterday
Radio's announcer: Oh good, you showed up!(5) I thought you would not come.
Julia: We would not miss(6) this opportunity
Radio's announcer: Good afternoon everybody. This is Open Air FM. Your favorite radio station. We are here today with two special guests(7): Pedro and Julia. They used to be my virtual friends and now they are here, in front of me, in flash and blood(8)! How are you today guys?
Pedro and Julia: We are fine!
Radio's announcer: Are you nervous? I feel a little tension in our Open Air studio
Pedro: Well, this is Pedro speaking. It's the first time(9) we come to a real radio station.
Radio's announcer: OK, let me give you a tip(10). First, you don't have to spit (11)on the microphone, OK?
Pedro: Oops. Sorry!
Radio's announcer: It's fine, just kidding(12)! Tell me guys, what kind of things do you usually(13) do?
Pedro: We work, and hang out(14) with our friends.
Radio's announcer:  Which one do you like the best(15)?
Julia: Both of them(16). I love my friends and my job, because I know I can't move forward(17) without them
Pedro: Me too.
Radio's announcer: Was your youth(18) very different from your childhood(19)?
Julia: Oh, very different. When I was a kid(20), I didn't have many responsibilities(21). I used to go to school, eat, study and sleep(22). Now I have to work, but I'm not complaining(23). You gain(24) responsibilities and start to walkwith your own legs(25).
Radio's announcer: Oh, well. You heard(26) what she said(27). Let's hear another(28) song. You can only listen to it here, in the Open Air radio station.
Radio's employee: So guys, thanks for coming. But before you go, I made a little surprise. I prepared a snack for us.
Julia: Hum, that's very kind of you!(29)
Pedro: Yes, and I'm very hungry.
Radio's announcer: And I brought(30) these books for you, Julia. Some of them(31) talk about journalism, and the others are classics of Brazilian Literature.
Julia: How nice! I can read it in my spare time(32)
Pedro: We read that one last year. It's a great book!
Julia: I brought something for you too. This is an article(33) I wrote(34) for my last office's newspaper
 

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Pedro: I ate too much!(35) And I drank(36) a lot of soft drinkl. My stomach hurts.
Julia: I knew you would be sick. You could not stop eating!(37)
 

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                                      Vocabulary
 1. You must be  = Você deve ser
 2. Her boss' sister = A irmã da chefe dela
 3. Exciting = Emocionante
 4. Met = conhecemos (passado)
 5. You showed up! = Vocês apareceram!
 6. Miss = perder
 7. Guests = convidados
 8. In flash and blood  = "em carne e osso"
 9. The first time = A primeira vez
 10. Tip = dica
 11. Spit = cuspir
 12. Kidding = brincando
 13. Usually = normalmente
 14. Hang out = sair
 15. Like the best  = gosta mais
 16. Both of them = Ambos
 17. Move forward = seguir em frente
 18.Youth = juventude
 19. Childhood = Infância
 20. Kid = criança
 21. Responsibilities = responsabilidades
  22. Sleep = dormir
  23. Complaining = reclamando
  24. Gain = ganhar, adquirir
  25.With your own legs = Com suas próprias pernas
  26. Heard = ouviu
  27. Siae = disse
  28. Another = Uma outra
  29. That's very kind of you! = É muita gentileza sua!
  30. Brougtht = trouxe
  31. Some of them = alguns deles
  32. Spare time = tempo livre
  33. Article = artigo
   34. Wrote = escrevi
   35. I ate too much! = Eu comi demais!
   36. Drank = bebi
   37. You could not stop eating! = Você não conseguia parar de comer!

A Brazilian amongst the Beatles

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Special Interview

A Brazilian amongst the Beatles

The creator of the biggest Beatles fan club in Brazil reveals what the meetings with Lennon, McCartney and Harrison were like

In 1963 Marco Antonio Mallagoli was just nine years old when he first heard a Beatles song. From that moment on his life began to change. Mallagoli started buying almost everything that had the Beatles on it. His passion for the band from Liverpool led him to being a professional musician and learning English. In 1979 he founded Revolution, the biggest Beatles fan club in Brazil (Revolution currently has over  25,000 members).  Mallagoli’s work was recognized by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Mallagoli had several meetings with each one of them at different times and in different places. On the right he reveals the most memorable moments from those meetings to Maganews.

“McCartney sang for my son”

“I’ve met him five times. The most memorable time was in Rio de Janeiro, in 1990.  I arrived at the dressing room with my two little kids and Paul picked them up and started to play with them. And when I said my youngest son liked the song Yesterday, but sang it wrongly, Paul got his guitar and sang Yesterday to my son. Three years later Paul was in São Paulo for a show. Again I took my two kids and Paul soon recognized them and said: “Wow, they’ve grown.”

                An afternoon with George Harrison

“The first time I was face-to-face with an ex-Beatle was in ’79, when George Harrison came to watch a Formula One race in São Paulo (Harrison was a friend of Emerson Fittipaldi’s). After that, I met him again 8 more times. In 1988, I spent a whole afternoon with him in Los Angeles. Harrison (who died in 2001) was a very simple person and treated me like a friend. We talked about music, but he also told me stories about the Beatles and a lot of jokes.”

  

Lennon: Carnival and charity

“I was with Lennon in October ’80, two months before he died. He asked me what my favorite Beatles song was. I said it was She Loves You and later he sent me, through the mail, that song’s Gold Disk. Lennon wanted to go to Carnival in Rio and even had plans to do benefit shows in Brazil.”

The biggest musical phenomenon ever

The Beatles revolutionized music, the habits and fashions of a generation. They began to play professionally in 1960, in Liverpool.  In 1962 they recorded their first single. In 1963 they were already known in England and in 1964 they began to conquer the USA and the rest of the world. During the sixties they wrote more than 400 songs – many of them becoming worldwide hits. The group split up in 1970, but even today the Beatles records are among the biggest selling in the world. It is estimated that so far over a billion records and tapes by the biggest ever band in the world have been sold.

The Lennon & McCartney partnership

Lennon and McCartney met each other in 1956 and soon began playing and composing together. This partnership lasted almost 15 years. In 1970, after various disputes between the four Beatles, the group split up. But Mallagoli remembers that, despite the split and the arguments, Paul and John got together some times during the  1970s. In 1980, the two ex-Beatles and their families spent Easter together.  Mallagoli believes they got back to being friends and that the Beatles could have played again together, if Lennon had not been killed in 1980.

Vocabulary

1 amongst – no meio de / dentre

2 from that moment on – a partir daquele momento

3 passion – paixão

4 currently - atualmente

5 dressing room - camarim
6 to pick up – pegar / levantar

7 charity – caridade
8 song’s Gold Disk - o disco de ouro (do compacto She Loves You)

9 sixties – anos 60
10 to split up – separar
11 records and tapes – discos e fitas

12 partnership – parceria

13 argument – discussão

14 Easter - Páscoa

Fotos – Arquivo pessoal de Marco Antonio Mallagoli e capa de disco.

Matéria publicada na edição de número 20 da Revista Maganews.

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You Are What You Eat

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Language level: Advanced
Speaker: Mark Worden
Standard: British accent

You Are What You Eat

IF you’ve ever wondered any obesity is increasing dramatically, then Barry Sears can explain. Barry Sears is best known for having invended the Zone Diet, which he sees as a scientific method for preventing heart disease, diabetes and cancer. He has written a number of best-selling books on the subject, the latest of which is Toxic Fat: When Good Fat Turns Bad. When he met with Speak Up we asked him to explain the reasons for the world’s current obesity epidemic:

NO GLOBAL

Barry Sears (Standard American accent)

What’s happening is a globalisation of food ingredients, and basically coming from America, and two things in particular: cheap carbohydrates and cheap vegetable oils. These are ones which are rich in Omega-6 fatty acids. Neither one by themselves is too dangerous, but when combined, it’s like adding kerosene to a fire. And the first consequence of this fire, this inflammation of the body, is the increase of body fat and basically, as this inflammation continues then you get an acceleration of chronic disease states, such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease and neurological disorders. And it’s really type 2 diabetes that threatens to destroy the healthcare systems of every country in the world. So, in many ways, that basically we have found the answer to the obesity crisis is the foods that we like to eat because now cheap carbohydrates and cheap vegetable oils, all coming from the United States, are 400 times cheaper per calorie than fresh fruits and vegetables.

GENETIC ENGINEERING

In addition to preventing disease, the correct diet can also prolong your life expectancy. In actual fact Barry Sears quit his job as an MIT researcher to work on the Zone Diet for largely personal reasons.

Barry Sears:

I have very bad genes. My father died in his early 20s of heart disease and he was a world-class athlete; his brothers died in their early 50s, as did my grandfather. So I realised about 30 years ago I had the same genes that would pre-dispose me to an early death from heart disease. Now, I knew I couldn’t change my genes, but there was the opportunity to change their expression and that’s the power of food. Food, if used correctly, allows you to change the expression of your genes and therefore take control of your future. And that’s basically the promise that basically we can offer now people in the 21^st century. Drugs can’t do that, but food can, but you have to treat food like a drug, take it at the right dosage, at the right time, and if you’re willing to do that, then you can control your future with frightening precision.

VINDICATION

Today the Zone Diet is recognised by the scientific establishment, but that hasn’t always been the case:

Barry Sears:

I went from being considered a boy genius of drug delivery technology at MIT to “charlatan of the world” within a very short period time because what I proposed was totally contrary to all existing nutritional advice, whether it be the American Heart Association, the American  government, The American Cancer Association. They said, “How dare you say we’re wrong?” And I just had basically enough perseverance to say, “The data will prove me right.” And, ironically, about three years ago, Harvard Medical School, announced their new guidelines for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes and they were The Zone. So a certain degree of vindication, but still, again, a great degree of reticence because every health authority in the world have blindly adopted in the American recommendation as the way people should eat. And it turns out what they have done, without thinking of the consequences, have basically caused our populations being incredibly less healthy, as a consequence. 

Toxic Fat

And, as an accompaniment to that, Barry Sears reads the opening paragraphs of his book, Toxic Fat:

Barry Sears:

Something is terribly wrong in American. You only have to walk down the streets to see the surging epidemic of obesity. However, this epidemic is for more complex than simply the result of sloth and gluttony.

After years of studying this problem I’ve concluded that we can view obesity as a form of cancer driven by inflammation. Obesity can be viewed as an inflammation induced cancer that can either be benign or malignant. You can live with a benign fat tumor for a long time, but a malignant tumor will kill you. The reason is that a malignant fat tumor is one that rapidly spreads the molecular building black – this i toxic fat of inflammation - from your fat cells to every organ in your body. When this occurs you have what I term “toxic fat syndrome.”

Toxic Fat is published in the U.S. by Thomas Nelson Books.  


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ace

He's an ace reporter.
Meaningvery good

action

Do you know where the action is in this town?
Meaningexcitement

airhead

My sister's boyfriend is a real airhead.
Meaningstupid person

all wet

Your ideas about politics are all wet.
Meaningcompletely wrong

all-nighter

I almost fell asleep during the test after an all-nighter.
Meaningafter studying all night.

ammo

The gun was useless after the killer ran out of ammo.
Meaningammunition

antifreeze

I really need some antifreeze in me on cold days like this.
Meaningliquor

armpit

This town is really an armpit.
Meaningundesirable place

awesome

What an awesome sunset.
Meaninggreat

bad

Wow, that was really a bad movie.
Meaningintense

barf

He barfed all over the seat of the airplane.
Meaningvomited

bashed

The boat was bashed beyond recognition.
Meaningcrushed

beat

After working all day I am really beat.
Meaningexhausted

beemer

He just bought a new beemer to drive to work in.
MeaningB.M.W. car

bench

He was benched during the basketball playoffs.
Meaningtaken out of the game

Pro-jovem, part 32, Inglês vip

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Julia:  Hello. I’m Julia, I write for my Office’s newspaper.

Guy:  Hello, Julia, it’s nice to talk with you(1).

Julia:  Where do you work?

Guy: I work at a radio station called(2) “Open Air”.

Julia:  That’s in my city!

Guy:  Really!? Would you like to be one of the guests of the show? Tomorrow we are having young people to discuss the difficulties of getting a job(3).

Julia:  Of course, I can bring a friend of mine(4).

Teacher: Hello guys. What are you doing here? I thought everybody was home(5)!

Julia: Oh, Hi boss. We were doing some research(6) on the internet, but we are leaving(7) now.

Teacher: Oh, the internet. All my students love the internet. But let me give you an advice(8). Try(9) to look for(10)information on reliable(11) sites. All right I have to go. I just dropped by(12), to see if the lights were on(13).

Julia: Guess what!(14) We are going to a radio station tomorrow.
Teacher: Why are you going to a radio station ?

Pedro: Because we were invited(15) to be one of the guests(16) in a program!

Teacher: Hum! That’s exciting(17)! I have one sister who(18) works in a radio station. It is on the east part(19) of the city. It is called Open Air. 

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                                      Vocabulary
 1. It's nice to talk with you  = É um prazer falar com você
 2. Called = chamado(a)
 3. Getting a job = conseguir um emprego
 4. A friend of mine = um amigo meu
 5. I thought everybody was home = Eu achei que todos estavam em casa
 6. Research = Pesquisa
 7. Leaving = saindo
 8.  Advice = conselho
 9. Try = tentar
 10. Look for = procurar
 11. Reliable = confiável
 12. I just dropped by = eu só "dei uma passada"
 13. If the lights were on = Se as luzes estavam acesas
 14. Guess what! = "adivinha só!"
 15. We were Invited  = nós fomos convidados
 16. Guests = convidados
 17. Emocionante =
 18. Who = que
 19. East part = parte leste

Words and Their Stories: Food Expressions, Part Three

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Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES. We present more expressions about food. They are from Elenir Scardueli, a listener in Brazil.

My mother always told us there is no use crying over spilled milk. That means you should not get angry when something bad happens and cannot be changed. People said my mother was a good egg. She would always help anyone in need. We never had to walk on eggshells around her. We did not have to be careful about what we said or did because she never got angry at us. She also told us you have to break some eggs to make an omelet. This means you have to do what is necessary to move forward. 

My mother believed you are what you eat. A good diet is important for good health. She would always give us nutritious food. She liked serving us meat and potatoes for dinner. Meat and potatoes can also mean the most important part of something. It describes someone who likes simple things. Here is another expression about meat: one man’s meat is another man’s poison. In other words, one person might like something very much while another person might hate the same thing.

My father was also a good and honest person. People said he was the salt of the earth. He would never pour salt on a wound, or make someone feel worse about something that was already a painful experience. However, sometimes he told us a story that seemed bigger than life. So we had to take it with a grain of salt. That is, we could not believe everything he told us.

My husband has a good job. He makes enough money to support our family. So we say he brings home the bacon. He can cut the mustard, or do what is expected of him at work. It is easy to find my husband in a crowd.  He stands almost two meters tall. He is a tall drink of water.

I take the train to work. It is not a pleasant ride because the train can be full of people. It is so crowded that we are packed like sardines – just like small fish in a can.

My supervisor at work is sometimes out to lunch. She is out of touch and does not always know what is going on in our office. Yet she is right about one thing: there is no such thing as a free lunch. Something may appear to be free of charge, but there may be a hidden cost.

When we fail to see problems at work, my supervisor tells us to wake up and smell the coffee. We need to pay more attention and fix the problem.

I once made a big mistake at the office and felt foolish. I had egg on my face.

Over the weekend, my friend invited me to watch a football game on television. But I do not like football. It is not my cup of tea.

We hope this program has given you food for thought, that is, something to think about.

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This program was written by Shelley Gollust. I'm Faith Lapidus. You can find more WORDS AND THEIR STORIES at our website, voaspecialenglish.com.