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Slang

Mr. Right a man who would be an ideal partner in a relationship (marido ou companheiro ideal) “Stop holding out for Mr. Right and try to meet someone tonight,” Larissa told Kate. “Pare de ficar esperando encontrar o homem perfeito e tente conhecer alguém hoje à…
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How about some collocations at your finger tips?

This month we’re going to look at collocations with finger followed by a noun. Here is the list produced by COCA (https://corpus.byu.edu/coca/). As usual, all examples are taken from that corpus: As you can see, the most common collocation is Finger Lakes, an area in…
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How do you say in English?

Coriza / nariz escorrendo – Runny nose Peter always gets a little cranky when he has a runny nose. O Peter sempre fica um pouco irritado quando tem coriza. O verbo to run, que normalmente significa “correr”, também pode ser “escorrer”, no contexto de…
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We’re back on our feet!

A search for foot/feet, immediately preceded by a noun, in the COCA turned out the chart below.   A close look at the list will reveal that seven (1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 11 and 12) out of the 22 lines are related to foot as a measurement unit: a foot is equivalent…
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"IS EVERYONE LISTENING TO YOU?"

How can we be so sure our students are listening to us?  How can we guarantee they understand what we say? Do we know how engaged they are?   When we teach groups, although we have a good hunch of what is going on in the classroom, we do not know the answers to these…