Inglês da Professora Denise Mardegan

Aqui estão algumas expressões muito usadas na área de turismo: airport charges - taxas do aeroporto amendment to a booking -  alteração da reserva arrival - chegada board - embarque em trens, ônibus, navios, aeronaves, etc. boarding pass - cartão de embarque - o documento em papel que você recebe da companhia aérea no check-in que permite que você entre no avião budget airlines - preços promocionais da companhia ion fee - a taxaem dinheiro que lhe é cobrada quando cancela uma reserva claim for damages - pedido de indenização, compensação departure - a partida destination - teu destino, o lugar designado como o final da sua jornada direct flight - voo direto - um voo quando um viajante chega ao seu destino sem ter que mudar de avião. Você pode parar em outra cidade, mas não precisará sair do avião domestic tourism - turismo doméstico - viajar dentro do país de residência do viajante excursion - uma viagem por prazer, passeio, viagem, excursão ...

Reading:  The 20th of November is a symbol for all the black movement in Brazil. The date marks the death of Zumbi dos Palmares, who died in 1695, an icon of resistance to slavery and the main mark of freedom. The Day of Black Consciousness was established in the country to be celebrated on November 20 by Law No. 10639, January 2003. The same law made it compulsory to teach about history and Afro-Brazilian Culture. Most Black Brazilians are descendants of African slaves brought to the country by Portuguese colonizers. In the last national census of the country, which took place in 2000, only 6.2% of the Brazilian population declared themselves "Black" (a little more than 30% are said "parda", which is a derivative of the Portuguese word for "dirty"). To have an idea of the problem that we face, it's enough to recall that in Salvador, the capital of Bahia and considered the "blackest" city of the country, only 13.3% of the population d...

SEM LETRA: COM LETRA LETRA I've paid my dues Time after time I've done my sentence But committed no crime And bad mistakes  I've made a few I've had my share of sand kicked in my face But I've come through We are the champions, my friends And we'll keep on fighting 'til the end We are the champions We are the champions No time for losers 'Cause we are the champions of the world I've taken my bows And my curtain calls You brought me fame and fortune and everything that goes with it I thank you all But it's been no bed of roses No pleasure cruise I consider it a challenge before the whole human race And I ain't gonna lose We are the champions, my friends And we'll … Vocabulário:  Dues - dívidas Time after time - algo que aconteceu várias vezes, repetidamente, a toda hora Bad mistakes - Erros sérios to come through - superar kick sand in one´s face - ser insultado por alguém superior, de modo a não poder...

Move in  significa mudar-se para uma nova casa, escritório: Happy English  moved   in  to this space three years ago. Jack found a new apartment. He’s going to  move   in  on May 1 st . You can  move   in  once you pay the first month’s rent. De maneira similar, usamos   move in with  para mostrar que alguém está compartilhando o local com alguém Lori  moved   in   with  her boyfriend last summer. Her parents didn’t agree with her  moving   in   with  him because they are not married. Danny moved in with his brother when he left his wife. O oposto de   move   in é   move   out , com o significado de parar de estar estalado, ou morando em algum lugar. Serena said she wants to  move   out  from her parent’s house after college. If you don’t like your roommate that much, you should  move   out . Jim’s company finally...

Existem várias maneiras de você expressar surpresa em Português e assim ocorre também no Inglês.  Qual você vai escolher, depende da ocasião e de você. Abaixo seguem 40 expressões e te garanto que algumas delas são hilárias: 1)  Whooooooa... 2)  Heavenly day 3)  Hot pot of Coffee!! 4)  'Oh my dayz' 5)  "Well, sufferin' cats" 6)  "My stars and garters!"….. 7)  Well spank me cross-eyed! 8)  Duuuuuuuuude.... 9)  Earned My Red Wings 10)  They’re off like a herd of turtles….!!!! 11)  "Jeepers pelts!" 12)  Well shiver me timbers and call me Woody 13)  Yuppiiieeeeee……  14)  Oooooo Mann….. 15)  Well shoot a rabbit! 16)  What a day!!! 17)  AYI mios 18)  Loved it…. 19)  "Well, I'll be go to hell!" 20)  "Why, Heavens to Betsey!" 21)  Aaaa unbelievable!!!  22)  Hot diggity  23)  Jeepers creepers 24)  Oh hell shitt fire 25)  He was madder than fi...

Work Tourism Rankings (Group Work) Which 10 countries do you think ranked highest in the world tourism rankings? Try to guess with a partner. (Answers (from 2010) on the bottom of next page.) The Foreign Visitor (Pair Work) Option 1 : A foreign VIP client of your company will visit from this Thursday to next Monday. Your boss has given you an unlimited budget to show your country to the client. Design the best itinerary you can for the visit. Option 2 : You met some friendly aliens on a recent space flight. You invited them to visit Earth sometime. Yesterday, they contacted you. They’d like you to give them a 5-day tour of your planet. Design the best itinerary you can. (Transportation will not be a problem as you can use their spacecraft.) Role-play #1 Student A: You want to take your wife/husband on a trip this weekend. First, decide where you want to go. Then, phone your travel agent to reserve a plane ticket and hotel. Also, ask for recommendations of things to...

In my opinion , this one would be better.  - Uma maneira clássica, porém lembre-se que não é a única. Varie.  To my mind this one's better. - Muito comum no Inglês falado e escrito If you ask me, this one's better.- Muito comum, podendo ser usado no inicio ou no final da sentença To my way of thinking, this one's fine. - Usado para enfatizar a própria opinião In my view, this one is best. - Comum no Inglês falado e escrito Know what I think? That one's best. - Abreviação de " Do you know what I think?". É comum é não é mal-educado I'd say tomorrow that one's better.- apesar de ser um "Cnditional", é muito comum What I think is that one's better. - Muito comum e direto. For me, that one's better. similar aos usos dos números 2 e 5 I tell you what I think, that one's best. - similar ao 10. Bem direto

advertising - show your products to customers through radio, television or newspapers "What is the best way for us to advertise our product?" afford - ser capaz de comprar "Television is the best advertising, but the most expensive. Can we afford it?"  agenda - o roteiro de uma reunião "The first item on our agenda is advertising." booming - um negócio que cresce rapidamente "This year business is booming, so we can start thinking about increasing our investments."  borrow - pegar algo emprestado "We need to borrow $100,000 to expand our business."  brand - marca (McDonald's, Coca Cola, Volkswagen, etc.) "We'll need to borrow money for advertising, then we'll build our brand awareness." break even - quando a saída financeira está equivalente a entrada "The company didn't make money nor lose money during the last quarter. They just broke even." bribe - suborno ...

all  hands on deck - todos devem trabalhar juntos porque têm muito trabalho a fazer The captain called for all hands on deck as the storm became stronger and stronger.  all thumbs - ser  desajeitado, ter dificuldade em consertar coisas ou trabalhar com as mãos The man is all thumbs and he can never fix something without making it worse.  arm in arm - unidos pelos braços, abraçados The couple walked along the beach arm in arm.  armpit of (somewhere) - um lugar que é o lugar mais feio ou pior de uma área específica The small city is the armpit of the country and nobody wants to go there to work.  at hand - fácil de alcançar, por perto, em mãos There were no tools at hand so I could not fix the stove.  at one's fingertips ao alcance I usually have my address book at my fingertips.  at the hands of (someone or something) - algo ou alguém que estã nas mãos de álguém, sob a responsabilidade ou poder de  We were at t...