Hazard O substantivo hazard significa “risco ou perigo”. A forma adjetiva hazardous significa “arriscado ou perigoso”. Veja os exemplos: “This bumpy road is a hazard to drivers. They should really do something about it!”, complained Gulliver.
“Esta estrada…
During my masters’, I had a professor who said some enlightening things every class…They were, as we say, real food for thought.
One day, he said that the teacher’s role was asymmetric to the students’ roles in class. I usually say something similar…
Por Vanessa Prata*
No artigo anterior, sugeri sete links com diversos vídeos que podem ser adaptados para uso em sala de aula, incluindo atividades com trechos de filmes, palestras, notícias e até propagandas. Nesta segunda parte, indico alguns sites que trazem…
Here’s the second leg of my leg post. Let’s look at leg preceded by an adjective. From the list below (as usual, all lists and examples are extracted from the COCA: www.americancorpus.org) we are only going to deal with those adjectives that might be problematic – but…
BO: acronym for “body odor”, unpleasant smell usually caused by sweating (mau cheiro de suor; “cê-cê) “This guy sitting next to me on the airplane had really bad BO,” Harry told a friend.“Este cara sentado do meu lado no avião tinha um cê-cê horrível”…
One of the biggest challenges for a work team is to achieve and keep efficient communication among its members.
Efficient communication is a challenge in itself. Sometimes what one says or writes is not what the other one hears or grasps. Misunderstandings may happen and our…
We’re almost finished with our collocations with parts of the body. Today we are going to look at nominal collocations (N+N) with leg. As usual, our examples are drawn from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA – www.americancorpus.org), only slightly adapted…
Last month I delivered a workshop at Disal in São Paulo, where a great group of teachers and I discussed the used of authentic materials before advanced levels. By authentic materials, we mean texts (written or spoken) that were not designed for pedagogical purposes, so we…
Venha participar do Lançamento dos livros Inglês de Rua e 600 Phrasal Verbs. Não perca esta oportunidade de participar deste evento e bater uma papo com os autores José Roberto A. Igreja e Robert Young. Data: 20 de Março (sexta-feira)
Horário: 19h as 21h30
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