terça-feira, 12 de fevereiro de 2008

Gírias - C (Slang)

catch some rays: get some sunshine.
"Let's go to the beach and catch some rays."

cheesy: cheap; outmoded.
"Why are you wearing such cheesy clothes?"

chicken: coward.
"Don't be such a chicken!"

cool: excellent; superb.
"That café is totally cool!"

cooler, the: jail.
"If you drink and drive, you'll end up spending time in the cooler."

couch potato: a person who watches too much television.
"Why did I have to marry such a couch potato?"

crap [offensive] (1): something worthless.
"My furniture is a bunch of cheap crap."

crap [offensive] (2): excrement.
"Yuck! I stepped on dog crap!"

crap [offensive] (3): falsehoods and lies.
"I've had enough of your crap."

segunda-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2008

Gírias - B (Slang)

baby boomer: a person born from the end of the Second World War until the early 1960s.
"Stuart was born in 1961, so he's considered a baby boomer."

ball (1): a fun time.
"I really had a ball in my Math class."

ball [offensive] (2): a testicle.
"After getting kicked in the balls, his voice seemed much higher."

bang (1): a very powerful thing.
"Disneyland is really a bang!"

bang (2): a powerful effect.
"Japanese sake really has a bang!"

barf (1): vomit.
"My dog barfed all over the carpet."

barf (2): vomit.
"Don't step on the barf!"

barf-out: a displeasing person or affair.
"That restaurant was a real barf-out."

bazillion: an infinite number of something.
"Has Dennis really taught a bazillion students?"

B-ball: basketball.
"Do you wanna play b-ball with me?"

beans: money.
"I've worked for this company for ten years, but I still don't have beans."

beat: tired.
"I'm really beat because I was awake all night."

beemer: a BMW.
"He wants to buy a beemer when he makes more money."

biggie: something important.
"I was hoping to get my homework completed, but it's no biggie. "

biker: a motorcycle rider.
"David used to be a biker until he got into a serious motorcycle accident."

bitch [offensive] (1): a very unpleasant woman.
"My boss can be such a bitch sometimes."

bitch [offensive] (2): complain.
"Stop bitching and finish your homework!"

bitchy [offensive]: moody.
"I like my friend Steve, even though he can be really bitchy."

bod: body.
"Stalone has a great bod!"

bonkers; go bonkers: crazy.
"If Mark works too hard, he sometimes goes slightly bonkers!"

booboo: a mistake.
"I made a booboo on the last question of the exam."

boob tube: television.
"Benjamin is always in front of the boob tube."

booze: alcohol.
"The party was fun, even though there wasn't any booze."

boss: excellent; great.
"That restaurant is totally boss!"

bread: money.
"Can I borrow some bread?"

brew (1): coffee.
"Every morning Andrew needs a fresh cup of brew."

brew (2): beer.
"Do you want another brew, dude?"

brewski: beer.
"I love drinking brewskies!"

B.S.: bullshit; lies.
"I'm tired of listening to your B.S."

bull: bullshit; lie.
"That's a bunch of bull!"

bullshit [offensive]: lie; dishonesty.
"I don't like people that bullshit me"

buns [possibly offensive]: the rear end; buttocks.
"Don't stare at my buns!"

bushed: extremely tired.
"I'm completely bushed."

butt: the buttocks.
"Stop sitting on your butt and help me wash the dishes!"

Gírias - A (Slang)

airhead: stupid person.
"Believe it or not, David can sometimes act like an airhead!"

amigo: friend (from Spanish).
"I met many amigos at that cafe."

ammunition: toilet paper.
"Help! We're completely out of ammunition!"

antifreeze: alcohol.
"I'm going to need a lot of antifreeze tonight!"

armpit: dirty, unappealing place.
"This cheap motel is an absolute armpit!"

ass [offensive] (1): backside.
"I fell on my ass on the ski slopes."

ass (2): an unworthy and hated person.
"I cannot be friends when you act like an ass."

awesome: great and impressive.
"This school is truly awesome!"

Source: http://www.eslcafe.com/slang/a.html

quarta-feira, 23 de janeiro de 2008

F.R.I.E.N.D.S.- Joey "learns" French



Phoebe: All right, it seems pretty simple. Your first line is "My name is Claude", so, just repeat after me. "Je m'appelle Claude".
Joey: Je de coup Clow.
Phoebe: Well, just... let's try it again.
Joey: Ok.
Phoebe: Je m'appelle Claude.
Joey: Je depli mblue.
Phoebe: Uh. It's not... quite what I'm saying.
Joey: Really? It sounds exactly the same to me.
Phoebe: It does, really?
Joey: Yeah.
Phoebe: All right, let’s just try it again. Really listen.
Joey: Got it.
Phoebe: Je m'appelle Claude.
Joey: Je te flouppe Fli.
Phoebe: Oh, mon Dieu!
Joey: Oh, de fuff!

Phoebe: Je m'appelle Claude.
Joey: Je do call blue!
Phoebe: Noooo! Ok, maybe if we just break it down. Ok, let's try one syllable at a time. Ok? So repeat after me. "je".
Joey: je.
Phoebe: m'ap
Joey: mah
Phoebe: pelle
Joey: pel.
Phoebe: Great, ok faster! "je"
Joey: je.
Phoebe: m'ap
Joey: mah
Phoebe: pelle
Joey: pel.
Phoebe: Je m'appelle!
Joey: Me pooh pooh!
Phoebe: Ok, it's too hard, I can't teach you!
Joey: What are you doing?
Phoebe: I, I have to go before I put your head through a wall.
Joey: Don't move! Don't go! I need you! My audition is tomorrow! Shah blue blah! Me lah peeh! Ombrah! Pooh.

Tape: We will now count from one to five. Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq.
Joey: Huh, un, blu, bla, flu, flenk!
Tape: Good job.
Joey: Thank you.
Phoebe: Hey Joey.
Joey: Hey!
Phoebe: Listen, I feel really badly about yesterday and I thought about it a lot and, and I know, I was too impatient. SO let’s try it again.
Joey: Oh, no, that's okay, I don't need your help. I worked on it myself and I gotta say, I am pretty good!
Phoebe: Really, can I hear some of it?
Joey: Sure, sure. Ok, "Bleu de la bleu, de la blu bla bleu" See?
Phoebe: Well, you're not, you're not... you're not... again, you're not SPEAKING FRENCH!
Joey: Oh well I think I am, yeah and I think I'm definitely gonna get the part.
Phoebe: How could you possibly think that?
Joey: For one thing, the guy on the tape said I was doing a good job!

Director: Whenever you're ready Joey.
Joey: Right. Dja bu bu Claude. Uh, c'est la pu les la lu blah bloo.
Casting assistant: I'm sorry, what's going on?
Joey: Dude, come on! French it up!
Director: Joey, do you speak French?
Joey: Toutes la smore! Bu blu-ay bloo blah ooh! Pfoof!
Director: You know what. I think this audition is over.
Phoebe: Uh, excuse me. Uh, I am Reginé Philange. I was passing by when I heard this man speaking the regional dialect of my French town of Estée Lauder.
Director: You really think this man is speaking French?
Joey: Sa-sa-saw!
Phoebe: Écoutez, je vais vous dire la vérité. C'est mon petit frère. Il est un peu retardé. (Translation: Listen, I will tell you the truth. He's my little bother. He's a bit retarded.)
Phoebe: Alors, si vous pouviez jouer le jeu avec lui... (Translation: So, would you please just humor him?)
Director: Good job, little buddy. That was some really good French. But I think we're gonna go with someone else for the part.
Joey: Ah. All right. But my French was good?
Director: It was great.
Joey: Oh-hoh! Ha-hah! See!
Phoebe: Merci. Au revoir. (Translation: Thanks, goodbye.)
Joey: Yeah-hah. Toute-de-le-fruit.

segunda-feira, 7 de janeiro de 2008

Verbos - 3ª pessoa do singular

Os pronomes na terceira pessoa do singular (he, she, it) possuem uma regra diferente na conjugação do verbo. Acrescenta-se o “S” no final do verbo em frases afirmativas no presente. Veja o exemplo abaixo.

He works / She works/It works

No inglês é muito fácil conjugar verbos, diferente do português, que devemos mudar o verbo de acordo com cada pronome pessoal.

Dica: Somente na TERCEIRA PESSOA do singular você irá colocar o “S” no final do verbo, nos outros pronomes basta apenas conjugá-lo.

Os verbos terminados em -y, precedidos de consoante, perdem o -y e recebem –ies.

Ex: to study - She studies/ he studies

Os verbos terminados em -y, precedidos de vogal, recebem –s.

Ex: to play - She plays/ he plays

Os verbos terminados em s, ss, sh, ch, x, o ou z, recebem –es.

Ex: to kiss - She kisses/he kisses; to reach - She reaches/ he reaches; to finish - She finishes/ he finishes; to fix - She fixes/ he fixes; to do - She does/ he does/; to buzz - it buzzes

Plural dos substantivos

PLURAL OF NOUNS

Regra geral: Acrescenta-se um -S ao singular
book - books river - rivers
garden - gardens table - tables

* Casos que fogem à regra geral.
1. Os substantivos que terminam em S, SS, SH, X, CH, e Z formam o plural acrescentando-se o -ES.
bus - buses box - boxes class – classes church - churches

2. Substantivos terminados em consoante + Y perdem o Y e acrescenta-se - IES.
city - cities family - families

3. A maior parte dos substantivos que terminam em -F, -FE, perdem F e FE e acrescenta-se - VES.
loaf - loaves wife - wives

4. Formas irregulares

man - men woman - women child - children person -people
tooth - teeth foot - feet mouse - mice sheep - sheep
fish - fish