Tag Archives: Podcast
Podcast #15 – Present Continuous: Present and Future? Posted by Adir on Nov 27, 2009
Download audio Hey there? How are you doing? Nosso podcast hoje será sobre um tempo verbal muito usado em inglês, o Present Continuous. Ele é formado com o presente do verbo to be (am, is ou are) mais o verbo principal com a terminação –ing. Ele faz a negativa e a interrogativa da mesma forma…
Podcast #14 – Tongue twisters – Trava linguas Posted by Adir on Nov 26, 2009
Download audio Let’s have some fun and practice some tongue twisters! 1. Betty Botter bought some butter, but she said “this butter’s bitter! But a bit of better butter will but make my butter better” So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter, and it made her butter better so ’twas better…
Podcast #13 – Falsos cognatos: actually e agenda Posted by Adir on Nov 25, 2009
Download audio Hey, what’s up? Hoje vamos falar sobre os falsos cognatos, que são palavras do inglês e do português que nasceram juntas, são cog-natas (cog = com; nato = nascido) pois vêm da mesma origem latina mas que foram adquirindo significados diferentes com o tempo. Uma das mais comuns e conhecidas é actually. De…
Podcast #12 – Idioms Posted by Adir on Nov 24, 2009
Download audio Let’s learn some very interesting idioms in English. Our first idiom is to be bored to death. To be bored to death means that you are extremely bored, be it in a class or at work or even at home. That professor doesn’t know how to spark interest in his students. They’re always…
Podcast #11 – Business : Sales, ups and downs Posted by Adir on Nov 23, 2009
Download audio Our first business podcast is about sales. In any business line, there are ups and downs in sales and today you’re going to learn and review some very useful expressions. Let’s start when sales are growing. We can use expressions like these: Sales are … booming / … on the rise. / ……
Podcast #10 – Palavras básicas, significados avançados I Posted by Adir on Nov 18, 2009
Many basic words like address, age, air, back, baby, beach and blanket can also be verbs. An address is where a person lives or where something is. It can also mean when you speak to someone about something in a particular way. For example, we can say that the President addressed the population in his…
Podcast #09 – Prepositions Part 01 Posted by Adir on Nov 17, 2009
The prepositions at, in and on are used in several fixed expressions. In means that you’re really inside a place, surrounded by a three dimensional space. Take a look: In a room (numa sala) In a building (num prédio) In a box (numa caixa) In a garden (num jardim) In New York (em Nova Iorque)…