SOLTANDO O VERBO!

     Vamos falar um pouco sobre os verbos e mesmo que você já tenha passado do nível básico, não custa nada relembrar.
     Comecemos pelo verbo mais metido a besta que conheço: o Verbo (TO) BE.

Metido, primeiramente, porque não aceita ser auxiliado.

      Afirmar é muito fácil, sai naturalmente. Sunny tem dois castelos na Escócia. É uma afirmação um tanto mentirosa (são cinco), mas é uma afirmação. Em português, para perguntar, só mudamos a entonação de voz. E para negar, acrescentamos o não.

     Como em inglês eles teriam problemas com esse negócio, de entonação e também têm a maior dificuldade em pronunciar ÃO, inventaram um recurso chamado de auxiliar. Vertendo para o inglês: Sunny has two castles in Scotland

O verbo é o have, então chamamos o auxiliar. Does Sunny have two castles in Scotland? Ou Sunny doesn't have two castles in Scotland.

Tentemos agora com o BE:

The castles are in Edinburgh. Como esse metidinho não aceita auxiliar, usaremos ele mesmo para a interrogativa e a negativa:
Are the castles in Edinburgh? ou The castles are not in Edinburgh

Além disso, se você usar um frequency adverb como always, never, usually etc,
quem vc acha que vem primeiro? O BE, of course.
I am always interested in good films. I always watch a dvd on Sundays.

Como notaram, Sunny has na interrogativa virou Does Sunny have. Isso se deve ao fato de o S ser tão pesado, que se o verbo tem um auxiliar, então ele é que o leve.
A grande maioria dos verbo tem um passado tenebroso, eu diria que bastante pesado. Então eles, sabidinhos que são, botam seus auxiliares para carregá-lo. 
Especialmente para meu amiguinho Edilson:
I wrote correctly (write está no passado) Did I write correctly? ou I didn't write correctly. (O auxiliar, que é pago para levar peso, é que carrega o passado...o verbo principal fica numa boa!)
Resumindo:
-O verbo Be é besta, vem antes do frequency adverb,  e não aceita auxiliar.
-O passado pesa, assim como o S das terceiras pessoas, então os auxiliares é que os levam.

Falando sobre o passado: tudo termina em ED, menos os irregulares. Aí o negócio é decorar. Mas tudo junto. Não espere começar a estudar o present perfect para decorar a terceira forma. Decore logo.

Aqui temos uma lista completíssima de verbos irregulares.

A-Z of irregular verbs (Base Form Past -Simple Form -Past Participle Form)

arise arose arisen


awake   awoke   awoken


be was /were been


beat beat beaten


become  became become


begin began begun


bend bent bent


bet bet bet


bid bid bid


bite bit bitten


blow blew blown


break broke broken


bring brought brought


broadcast broadcast broadcast


build built built


burst burst burst


buy bought bought


catch caught caught


choose chose chosen


come came come


cost cost cost


creep crept crept


cut cut cut


deal dealt dealt


dig dug dug


do did done


draw drew drawn


drink drank drunk


drive drove driven


eat ate eaten


fall fell fallen


feed fed fed


feel felt felt


fight fought fought


find found found


flee fled fled


fly flew flown


forbid forbade forbidden


forget forgot forgotten


forgive forgave forgiven


freeze froze frozen


get got got


give gave given


go went gone


grow grew grown


hang hung hung


have had had


hear heard heard


hide hid hidden


hit hit hit


hold held held


hurt hurt hurt


interweave interwove interwoven


keep kept kept


kneel knelt knelt


know knew known


lay laid laid


lead led led


leave left left


lend lent lent


let let let


lie lay lain


light lit lit


lose lost lost


make made made


mean meant meant


meet met met


mistake mistook mistaken


offset offset offset


pay paid paid


put put put


quit quit quit


read read* read*


ride rode ridden


ring rang rung


rise rose risen


run ran run


say said said


see saw seen


seek sought sought


sell sold sold


send sent sent


set set set


sew sewed sewn


shake shook shaken


shine shone shone


shoot shot shot


show showed shown


shrink shrank shrunk


shut shut shut


sing sang sung


sink sank sunk


sit sat sat


sleep slept slept


slide slid slid


speak spoke spoken


spend spent spent


spit spat spat


split split split


spread spread spread


spring sprang sprung


stand stood stood


steal stole stolen


stick stuck stuck


sting stung stung


stink stank stunk


strike struck struck


swear swore sworn


sweep swept swept


swim swam swum


swing swung swung


take took taken


teach taught taught


tear tore torn


tell told told


think thought thought


throw threw thrown


understand understood understood


undo undid undone


wake woke woken


wear wore worn


weave wove woven


weep wept wept


win won won


write wrote written

By The Way: This is one of my castles in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
 
                                LOL!
 
Lembrem-se sempre que essas regras são uma forma lúdica de aprender... Em nenhuma gramática vocês lerão que o verbo BE é metidinho.KKK!
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ADJECTIVE ORDER, TRANSPORTATION & PARTS OF A CAR

    Quando vocês, meus queridos, comentarem (e recomendarem) este Blog com (a) seus amigos, em inglês, of course, qual será a ordem dos adjetivos?
   Em português poderemos dizer que ele é novo, azul e vermelho e maravilhoso; ou vermelho e azul, maravilhoso e novo. A ordem dos tratores não altera o viaduto.  Em inglês, porém,  teremos que colocar ordem no recinto. Ou construção (rs)... 

     Como decorar a ordem é que são elas, então bolei um daqueles meus famosos recursos mneumômicos. Mas vamos  primeiro às explicações e ao quadro:

(SE VOCÊ ESTÁ NO NÍVEL BÁSICO, NÃO SE PREOCUPE....AINDA...KKK)

Adjective Order

Adjectives can be used to describe opinion, size, age, shape, colour, material, origin and purpose. We can use adjectives together to give a detailed description of something. Adjectives that express opinions usually come before all others.

For example:  "The big, blue bag.".
When we group adjectives together there is a general rule for the position of each type adjective, these are:

This is just a guide as you wouldn't normally see so many adjectives in one description.

For example:
• "She had a big, ugly, old, baggy, blue, cotton, British, knitting bag." Is grammatically correct but a bit too long-winded.
* You might swap opinion and fact adjectives depending on what you wish to emphasise:-
For example:
• "She had a long, ugly nose." emphasising the length of her nose.

• "He was a silly, little man." emphasising that the man was silly.

That said, let's go to the mnemonic resource:
Has to be in Portuguese now:

Opsi, um joalheiro que não sabe português direito, foi perguntado se um certo anel ficaria  bom feito com ouro misturado ou puro: -O que você acha, Opsi?

OPSI ASHA COM ORIPUR  (respondeu ele)
OPinião SIze Age SHApe COlor Material ORIgen PURpose

Ficou fácil assim?

About Transportation


(Se você é basic ou esqueceu:
A pergunta é HOW. Ex: How do you go to work? How will Sunny go to Europe?
A resposta é BY. Ex; I go to work by car. Sunny'll go to Europe by plane.

                                                  BY SEA

BY AIR

BY LAND

Vale a pena saber que:
Caravan ou Camper é rebocado por um carro.
Motor Home ou RV (Runaway Vacation) é um veículo em sí.
Além e ser meu sonho e consumo! Ai, Ai...

                                                                     

Ônibus de dois andares, que nós chamamos de chopp duplo, é Double-Decker. Quem embarca deve saber que Helicopter tem o apelido de Chopper.

PARA RELEMBRAR:
 

                                                             

Agora me diga: se seu pneu furar, você pega um step na suitcase do seu carro e troca usando um big monkey? Espero que não...LOL

   O Modêlo não é muito atual, mas dá pra quebrar o galho (break the branch)

                                                        

           


Agora que sabemos (quase) tudo sobre um carro, podemos fazer o exame no DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles)

 

           THAT'S ALL FOR NOW, GUYS! HOPE YOU'VE HAD A BLAST!!!

SH Pronunciation & Others, Animals, American Slangs & Idioms Letter D

                        ABOUT PRONUNCIATION 

Sempre brinco dizendo que 99,99% dos alunos cometem os mesmos erros. It's true. Vamos a alguns:

Brazil:Não sei o porquê das pessoas quererem complicar a pronúncia. Não é Brésil, mas sim Brasíl, o "A" mais fechado, a sílaba tônica no IL.
Curiosidade: Antigamente se escrevia o nome do nosso país com Z. Passamos para o S mas o resto do mundo não.

Police:Não se pronuncia pólice, gente, mas políce, o que é bastante mais fácil de berrar, caso vc esteja numa situação em que precise da mesma.
Imagine-se gritando por pólice...vai parecer uma bichinha engasgada!

Teacher: Ó céus, depois do personagem "Seu Peru" da escolinha do prof Raimundo, todos só pronunciam tchítcher ao invés de títcher.

English: O sh soa ch, como em CHave, CHove, CHuva.
Se você for comprar outro chip  pro seu celular, se não pronunciar direito, estará pedindo um carneiro (sheep). E não caberá no seu telefone.
Não acreditam? vamos deixar Mr Sconda falar por mim.





 Ainda comentando pronúncia:
- H tem som de rr como em carro
- R tem som de r como em caro
- Palavras no plural têm som de Z  ou IZ a não ser que sejam Peteka...Ou seja, que terminem em P,T ou K (PeTeKa, sacaram?) Aí o som é de S.
- E para vocês não confundirem fazer um lanchinho (have a snack [snék]) com
comer uma cobra (have a snake [sneik])...Nem dizerem que vão beber um urso (bear) ao invés de uma cerveja (beer), vamos ver este video sobre os animais:




Mais alguns:


Não custa nada lembrar que:
Rooster é mais American English do que cock.
Em donkey o E não é pronunciado.
O plural de sheep é sheep mesmo


Para relaxar:





Some more Slangs...Letter D
dang: darn; wow; used to express frustration or surprise.
Dang! That's a big building!

date: to have a romantic relationship; to go out with someone, usually to a restaurant or a movie or both.

They've been dating for the last year, and they might get married.

deadbeat: a person who doesn't pay his debts or someone who doesn't work and is always asking for money.

Those deadbeats who hang out on the corner every day are begging for money again.

dead duck: a person who is in big trouble.

His company went broke and now he's a dead duck.

deck: hit; knock over with a punch.

Two angry drivers got out of their cars after an accident and then one decked the other.
DJ or deejay: a person who plays music at a nightclub or who plays music at a radio station. (noun or verb)

She's going to deejay at a big party this weekend.

deep pockets: something you have if you are rich; a supply of money.
Although they lost a lot of money in the stock market, they've got pretty deep pockets and should be okay.

demo: a product that sits on a store shelf but isn't for sale. Usually a TV, a computer, or some other big appliance.

Kumar got thirty percent off on his digital camera because it was a demo.

dibs, to have dibs on ____: to say that something belongs to you before someone else gets it; to make an early claim of ownership.

I've got dibs on that last donut. Don't anyone touch it.

die: 1. to laugh uncontrollably; 2. to slowly fade away or become much less.

1. The audience was dying with laughter.

2. Business died out in that section of town and now most of the stores are closed.
ding-dong: a stupid person; someone you don't like.

The ding-dong who sold me my shoes forgot to put one of them in the box. Now I have to go back to the store.

dish it out: to give someone a hard time or to say mean things to another person.

Roger really dishes it out to his employees when they make a mistake.

dog: a woman who isn't attractive; a bad product.

The microwave that she bought at the store turned out be a dog, so she took it back.

doggy bag: a bag for taking home food leftover at a restaurant.

I can't finish all this kung pao chicken. Let's ask the waitress for a doggie bag.

do it: have a sexual relationship.
Do you think they're doing it yet? They've only been going out for two weeks.

do (one's) own thing: to do something that you enjoy; a hobby.

It's important to be able to do your own thing on the weekends.

double-dip: to get more money from a job than a person has earned; to dip a single tortilla chip or potato chip twice.
When I saw Jane douple-dipping her chips at the party, I stopped eating the salsa because she has a cold.

double take: to look quickly look at something twice out of suprise; to be surprised.
The police officer did a double take when he saw what looked like a dog driving a car. It turned out to be a man with really long hair.

double up: to have to go from individual ownership to two people sharing something.

We'll have to double up some of the students on the computers because there aren't enough for everyone.
down: to be sad or depressed. (this word has many different meanings and variations, most of them related to sadness: down in the dumps, down on one's luck, etc.)

•A: Why does she look so down?

•B: She just found out her cat died.

drag: a negative situation; something bad.
Going to this class is such a drag. The teacher is really boring.

DQ: Dairy Queen, a very popular place to get ice cream and other fast food.

Let's go to DQ and get some ice cream cones.

drive crazy: to make someone crazy; to cause intense frustration.

My neighbor's TV set is so loud, I can't get to sleep at night and it's driving me crazy.

dude: 1. a person; 2. a friend; 3. an exclamation of surprise or concern. (This is a very popular word among young people and it can have many different meanings depending on how it's used.)

1. Go ask that dude over there if he knows what time the show starts.
2. Hey, dude! What are you doing today?

3. Dude! Be careful!

dump: 1. a messy or unclean house or apartment; 2. to put something down

1. Geraldo didn't want to take Maria back to his apartment because it's such a dump.

2. Go ahead and dump your laundry on the floor, and then we'll put it in the machines.



IDIOMS Letter D
deal with = manage a problem; take care of a situation.  

In business, sometimes it's very difficult to deal with the pressure of a deadline.

*deadline = the date or time when something must be finished.

Life is very difficult sometimes. You just have to deal with it!

do (food) = have food (usually lunch) and meet to discuss something important.
They do lunch every Friday.

do in = to kill or be killed

Although he tried to fight them off, the man was done in by his captors.

do over = do something again; repeat.

George got really angry when he forgot to save his work on his computer and then had to do it over.
draw attention to = to have other people look at something or someone
He enjoys drawing attention to himself by showing everyone how good he is at rollerblading.

drive (someone) crazy = to cause problems; to make someone angry or mad. Her husband drives her crazy when he reads the morning newspaper and doesn't talk to her.

due to - because of; for this reason

We have to take a different highway every day due to the collapse of the bridge



                          Have Fun!!!

VOCAB: Vegetables, Fruit, Clothes, ETC...

Estou tendo problemas com meu computador, essa é a razão das postagens estarem demorando.

Mas enquanto ele não trava novamente...let's learn/review some useful vocabulary, shall we?

Starting by the VEGETABLES





The FRUITS now




And CLOTHES




OBS:
 *Briefs or Panties
*Trousers or Pants
*Pajamas or PJ's
*Always plural!

Blouse or Top



AMERICAN SLANGS  letter C


call it quits: stop working and, maybe, leave the place where you work. Also, call it a day.
We called it quits after a 10-hour day and went out for a few beers.

can do: completely possible. Also used in the negative--no can do.

This company needs a can-do attitude if it wants to be successful.

catch-22: an impossible situation with no easy solution; a contradiction; illogical reasoning. This is a reference to a book, Catch-22, written by Joseph Heller about a bureaucratic military during World War II. This is hard to use, and it's often misused, but it remains popular.

The harder I work, the more money I pay in taxes. It seems like a catch-22.
check it out: look at this; this is interesting; listen to me.
Check it out! I got the new Google phone!

cheesy: something kind of cheap; an appeal to popular taste in decorating and entertainment; not of high quality--sometimes regarded as an insult.

Where did she find that cheesy old coat? It looks like something from the 60s.

chick: a beautiful woman; a young woman. (some women don't like the use of this word--it's a little sexist.)

There were tons of hot chicks at the place we went to last night.

chicken: scared; afraid. (This is a very popular adjective)

If you're too chicken to ask her out, I'll do it for you.

chip in: to share the expenses; to contribute money.

Someone at the office is getting married so we're all chipping in for a gift.
choke: to suddenly lose the ability to do something or win; to go from winning to losing.
The Cubs have a good baseball team, but they always choke at the end of the season.
chug: drink fast, usually beer.

Let's chug these beers and get going.

clean: innocent of wrongdoing; not carrying a weapon. (You hear this used a lot on TV cop shows.)

The public thought he was guilty of murder at first, but then it turned out he was clean.

closet: secret (adjective); also in the closet, and out of the closet, usually used for someone who is hiding the fact that he or she is gay.

When he came out of the closet, he lost his job with the military.

cold: not friendly; unemotional.

Ali tried talking to Sara, but she was so cold towards him, he walked away.

come off: to appear; to make an impression.

She came off as a nice person at first, but then after we all got to know her, it turned out she was really mean.

come on: to show some romantic interest in someone.
She was coming on to my friend at the club, but he didn't notice.
comp: (complimentary); free; payback.

We're getting out tickets comp because we won a contest.

cool: great; interesting; good. (very popular)

This is a very cool song! What's it called?

cool off: calm down; try not to be upset

You'd better cool off before you speak to him. You're too angry right now.

cop: police officer (very popular)

The cops came when a shot was fired in the restaurant.

couch potato: a person who stays on the couch, watches TV, and usually eats.

She'd rather be a coach potato today than go to school on her day off.

corny: something that appeals to simple emotions; lacking in sophistication.

A lot of people say that movie is so powerful that it made them cry, but I thought it was corny and boring.

cough up: to give; to give with reluctance.

Tom's sister couldn't cough up enough money to pay her rent this month, so he helped her out.

crap: something bad; junk.

They have a bunch of crap in their backyard that needs to be thrown out.

crib: house or apartment. (African-American usage)

Let's go back to the crib and get something to eat.

crush: 1. (noun) a fondness; deep romantic love, often one that can't be fullfilled; 2. (verb, often used in the passive voice) to experience disappointment.

1. She has a crush on her teacher.

2. He was crushed to find out that he didn't get that job.

cut it out: stop immediately.

My kids were fighting so I told them to cut it out.

cut the cheese: fart; expell gas (a little vulgar); a bad smell.

It stinks in here. Who just cut the cheese?

 
 
IDIOMS letter C
 
carry out = to do something that is part of a plan; follow an order
These business managers are carrying out a plan for the expansion of their company.

catch on = start to understand.

At first, Abbas and Dominique had trouble understanding how to learn English with this blog, but then they quickly caught on.

 

Abbas          Dominique

check out = to look at, to examine carefully.
These kids are checking out Sunny Tip's Blog.

come on = hurry; stop doing something. Sometimes used when asking or pleading for something.

"Come on! Please eat your food!"

come to terms (with) = to learn to accept. Used with difficult situations.

When there's a war, many people have to come to terms with the death of a family member.

come up = to happen quickly, suddenly, or soon.

Sunny has an important meeting coming up next week and she has to prepare for it.
come up with = to have an idea or to create an idea

She's trying to come up with some new ideas for teaching English.

cut down on = reduce; do less of something

If he doesn't cut down on his smoking or quit completely, he's going to suffer from illness later in life.

cut off = to stop someone; to be rude and get in front of someone; to interrupt.

He got really mad at the driver who cut him off at the intersection.
I was talking on my cell phone when suddenly I got cut off.



                                                   THAT´S ALL FOR NOW, GUYS