Inglês da Professora Denise Mardegan

Você conhece o Parque Zoológico em São Paulo? É grande. Quando você quer descrever o tamanho de algo como sendo muito grande, você pode dizer que é It´s very big ou It´s really very large.  Mas usar  gírias em inglês sempre será mais divertido e atraente. Isto é o motivo pelo qual quero te mostrar 5 gírias que significam muito grande:  That wedding cake is  ginormous . ←  Ginormous  é uma combinação dos adjectivos   gigantic e enormous .  That cruise ship is  humongous . ←  Humongous   é uma combinação dos adjectivos  huge e tremendous .  Those suitcases are pretty  hefty . ← Algo   hefty  é algo muito pesado (very heavy). We went to the  mega  movie theater. ←  Mega  mega é um prefixo que significa um milhão, como em megabyte. Então nós usamos  mega  na frente do substantivo que qiueremos dizer que é grande.  He paid a  whopping  amount of money for that car. ←  Whopping  também significa grande e é usadfo quando queremos falar de uma grande quantidade de algo.  h

EASTER VOCABULARY: http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/festivals/easter/picture-vocabulary.html THE HISTORY OF EASTER: Easter Bunny The Easter Bunny  (also called Easter Hare or Spring Bunny) is a character who brings baskets filled with colored eggs, candy and sometimes also toys to the homes of children on the night before Easter. It is depicted as a rabbit sometimes with clothes. When Easter Bunny brings the gifts, it will either put the baskets in a designated place or hide them somewhere in the house or garden for the children to find when they wake up in the morning. Like Santa Claus, Easter Bunny brings gifts to children on the night before the holiday. Easter Bunny and the eggs symbolize fertility. Since birds lay eggs and rabbits and hares give birth to large litters in the early spring, these became symbols of the rising fertility of the earth and were adopted by early Christians as a symbol of the resurrection of Jesus. Source:  Wikipedia Compr

Intonation Many people from different countries have improper intonation because their teacher had improper intonation. In many situations, being monotone is better than having bad intonation. The worst is when someone goes up and down too much on every word. Another thing you should avoid is to end high at the end of a sentence. To correct improper intonation, you need to remember to start high and end low. You cannot do it any other way. I recommend going to the interview section and listening to one of the audio files provided by a native speaker. You will hear proper intonation. After listening to the audio, record yourself and listen to it. Does it sound the same? If not, then find the areas that are dissimilar and make the necessary corrections. This advice is very trivial, but intonation is relatively easy to correct. You can fix your intonation with only a little effort. If you have a friend who is a native English speaker, you can usually fix intonation in a couple of l

First impressions are very important. So it is crucial that you leave a good impression when you first meet someone, especially if it’s for an important job, or someone who could potentially be very special to you! I have listed some of the most common ways to say ‘Nice to meet you’ below, and included the responses from the other person, so you know what to say, no matter whether you speak first or second! Formal: 1) Pleased to meet you 2) Pleased to meet you too    Formal and Informal: 1) It’s very nice to meet you 2) Nice to meet you too  Formal: 1) It’s a pleasure to meet you 2) Pleasure to meet you too   Formal (This is regarded as somewhat archaic by many people nowadays, as the question isn’t answered with the reciprocal same question, but it used to be spoken as a statement, not a question (without the raised intonation at the end): 1) How do you do? 2) How do you do?  This greeting is not used in American English, it was only ever used in British

Are you looking for something to do to  kill time ? Well there are plenty of idioms here for you to learn! If you practise them regularly, soon you’ll be able to use them on a  day to day   basis and improve your English! I am a true believer that  there is no time like the present . So start learning today! The “Time Idioms” image was created by Kaplan International.  Click here  to see the original article or to discover how you can study English abroad. 1. AROUND THE CLOCK If something is open around the clock, it means it is open 24 hours a day. The hotel’s service is great, there is always someone available to help you  around the clock. 2. BEHIND THE TIMES Used to describe someone who is old-fashioned and has ideas that are regarded as out-dated. It’s a shame his parents don’t understand it from his point of view, they’re really  behind the times. 3. AHEAD OF TIME If something happens ahead of time, it happens early, before the set time, or with time to spare.