Inglês da Professora Denise Mardegan

‘Someone’ é usado se você está num local onde há várias pessoas ao teu redor, mas você não sabe sobre quem você está falando. Parece confuso? Vamos ver um exemplo: ‘Someone has left the room and started screaming loudly’ (Alguém deixou o sala e começou a gritar alto). Significa que você não sabe quem foi que deixou a sala e começou a gritar. ‘Somebody’ significa que você está se referindo a uma pessoa em particular, porém sem citar o nome. Por exemplo, a mesma frase acima porém usando somebody: ‘Somebody has left the room and started screaming loudly.’ O uso de somebody significa que você está se referindo a uma pessoa a qual você provavelmente conhece, porém não quis dizer o nome.  Então ‘Someone’ é usado se você não sabe quem é o sujeito da ação e somebocy quando você sabe que foi, mas não quer citar o nome. Existem casos também que podem ser usados para expressar grau de formalidade. Someone é mais formal, enquanto somebody é mais informal e íntimo. Someone made...

I’ll bet you’re going to enjoy this lesson! Basically, the verb bet means to place a wager. However, in casual, informal, conversational English, there are a number of other ways we can use bet , so for today’s English lesson, let’s check them out! Here are the example sentences. To get the details of this English lesson, you need to listen to the podcast or check the transcript for the details: http://www.myhappyenglish.com/?powerpress_pinw=13741-podcast Look at those dark clouds. I bet it’s gonna rain today. I bet the boss is going to make us work overtime again. Jack is so forgetful. I bet he doesn’t remember we have a meeting today. I bet it’s gonna rain today. or I’ll bet it’s gonna rain today. Look at those dark clouds. Betcha it’s gonna rain today. Betcha the boss is going to make us work overtime again. Jack is so forgetful. Betcha he doesn’t remember we have a meeting today. Do you think Jack will be on time today? I wouldn’t bet on it. I hope the bo...

Father's Day  was created to complement  Mother's Day . Like Mother's Day which honors mothers and motherhood, Father's Day celebrates fatherhood and paternal bonds; it highlights the influence of fathers in society. Many countries celebrate it on the third Sunday of June, but it is also celebrated widely on other days. Historically,  Sonora Smart Dodd  was the woman behind the celebration of male parenting. Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there. After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day in 1909, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday honoring them. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, the pastors did not have enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June. The first celebration was in Spokane, Washington at the YMCA ( Young Men's Christian Association ) on June 19, 1910...

Father's Day  was created to complement  Mother's Day . Like Mother's Day which honors mothers and motherhood, Father's Day celebrates fatherhood and paternal bonds; it highlights the influence of fathers in society. Many countries celebrate it on the third Sunday of June, but it is also celebrated widely on other days. Historically,  Sonora Smart Dodd  was the woman behind the celebration of male parenting. Her father, the Civil War veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there. After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day in 1909, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday honoring them. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, the pastors did not have enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday of June. The first celebration was in Spokane, Washington at the YMCA ( Young Men's Christian Association ) on June 19, 1910...

Father's Day is celebrated all around the world to say thank you to dads. An old English proverb tells how important fathers are. It says: “A father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” Many of us perhaps think our father is even more important. There is no age limit for the person saying thank you, nor for the dad. There is no universal date when every country celebrates Father’s Day. In many countries it is on the third Sunday in June. Most fathers receive presents and cards and perhaps even a special dinner. The day has a special punctuation point. The apostrophe is placed before the ‘s’. This means we all think about our own father. Of course, if the apostrophe was placed after the ‘s’, we would be honouring all the fathers in the world. Father’s Day historians believe the day started in Washington state in the USA. A lady called Sonora Dodd was sitting in church one Sunday in 1909, listening to a sermon on Mother’s Day. She decided it was only fair to also have a day for ...

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS  (Do not show to Student B) 1) What images spring to mind when you hear the word ‘father’? 2) Can you describe your father in one word? Why that word? 3) Did your father spend a lot of time with you when you were a child? 4) Do you always buy your father a present on Father’s Day? 5) What are the differences between a father and a father-in-law? 6) In what ways do you take after your father? 7) What is your father’s biggest fault? 8) Is your father more like a father or a best friend? 9) What do/did your father and you argue about? 10) What do you think of Father’s Day? Is it necessary?   STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS  (Do not show to Student A) 1) What are the biggest differences between fathers and grandfathers? 2) Why and how did your mother fall in love with your father? 3) Are you happy with the way your father raised you? 4) Should father stay at home and look after the kids? 5) What’s the best piece of advice your father ha...