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voce entenda o ingles falado (spoken english).O tao necessario "ouvir" deve ser feito com criterio, ou seja, e preciso aprender ouvir.Na minha opiniao e tambem de diversos especialistas a internet e o hoje o meio mais eficiente para se adquirir fluencia em ingles.Atraves da internet voce tem a sua disposicao podcasts, videos com transcripts e exercicios completamente gratuitos para desenvolver todos os aspectos da fluencia como: listen (ouvir), read (ler), write (escrever) e speak (falar).Depois que descobri o poder da internet decidir definitivamente abandonar escolas convencionais que diga se de passagem estao absoletos no quesito fluencia em ingles.Hoje em dia a internet e meu (a) professor.Por isso na medida do possivel estarei compartilhando a descoberta de sites interessantes sobre o ensino e metodos de aprendizado.Mas voltando ao assunto principal ( listening skills) estarei postando podcasts com seus respectivos transcripts para desenvolver seu listening skills.Listening skills e na minha opiniao o principal aspecto porque as escolas convencionais de ingles mesmo sendo absoletas, conseguem desenvolver aos trancos e barrancos o read e o write skills.Isto significa que numa destas escolas voce conseguira aprender a ler e a escrever razoavelmente bem.Mas isto nao capacita as pessoas a interagir com um falante nativo por falta de habilidade em entender o que esta sendo dito.Desenvolver seu listening skills diferentemente de saber somente ler e escrever nos habilita a interagir sem medo com native speaker (falantes nativos).As convencionais escolas de ingles no Brasil pecam por substimar este importante aspecto levando -os a inverter a ordem das coisas.Talvez surja a pergunta do por que que um aluno passa anos dentro de uma escola e ainda assim nao consegue falar em ingles.A resposta a esta pergunta e simplesmente por nao ter sido desenvolvido a capacidade de entender o ingles falado.Isto e uma questao de logica.Porque veja bem: se eu nao entendo o que alguem diz nao tem como formular uma resposta ou interacao com esta pessoa, e uma questao de logica.Conclui-se entao que listening e speaking devem andar juntos respectivamente.that's all for today.see youtake care!by fabio junio almeida prates
TALKING TO THE MOON- Bruno marsI know you're somewhere out thereSomewhere far awayI want you backI want you backMy neighbors thinkI'm crazyBut they don't understandYou're all I haveYou're all I haveAt night when the starsLight up my room----Light up nao e como deve parecer um phrasal verbs .E o verbo iluminar em portuguesI sit by myself-------by myself e uma expressao que da a palavra "by" o sentido de causa agente.Talking to the moonTry to get to you----"Get" neste contexto esta substituindo o verbo "chegar" ( tento chegar ate voce)In hopes you're onThe other sideTalking to me tooOr am I a foolWho sits aloneTalking to the moonI'm feeling like I'm famousThe talk of the townThey sayI've gone mad----"I've" e uma contracao de I have . E gone e past participle de Go.Mas neste contexto esta com signicado de ficar "they say I've gone mad" (Dizem que eu fiquei louco)Yeah, I've gone madBut they don't knowWhat I knowCause when the----"Cause" e a forma contraida de "because" utilizada de forma informal.Sun goes downSomeone's talking backYeah, they're talking backAt night when the starsLight up my roomI sit by myselfTalking to the moonTry to get to youIn hopes you're onThe other sideTalking to me tooOr am I a foolWho sits aloneTalking to the moonDo you ever hear me calling?Cause every nightI'm talking to the moonStill trying to get to youIn hopes you're onThe other sideTalking to me tooOr am I a foolWho sits aloneTalking to the moonI know you're somewhere out thereSomewhere far away BABYS' FIRST FLIGHT (O PRIMEIRO VOO DOS BEBES PATOS)Ola Friends! estou aqui hoje para compartilhar um pequeno e divertido video Como eu ja disse em outro post, videos e uma das melhores formas para se aprender ingles. Porque videos atingem todos os aspectos do processo de aprendizagem da lingua inglesa, como listen, read, write e speak.Este video mostra como e os dois primeiros dias de filhotes de patos que vivem em madeiras, em ingles wood duck hatchlings. O nome tecnico e patos carolinos, Natural da America do Norte, em particular das zonas pantanosas da costa este dos Estados Unidos da America, a especie foi introduzida na Europa como animal ornamental de jardins. Alimenta-se de vegetais e graos.( fonte : wikipedia).Vamos explorar parte por parte do transcript deste video.Na primeira parte ouvimos: We're inside a tree, 15 feet above a lake. High in the Rocky mountains. We're in a nest of wood duck eggs, hatching after a 30-day incubation.Esta primeira deixei em negrito um importante dado relacionado a pesos e medidas em ingles "15 feet above a lake" . Um foot equivale a 12 inchs (doze polegadas) ou 30, 48 centimetros. Mas para que voce tenha uma nocao mais clara sobre a altura que os filhotes de patos ( duck hatchlings), e importante fazer a conversao de centimetro para metro. Para isso, primeiro vamos multiplicar 30,48 por 15 que e o numero de feets. Entao 30,48 x 15= 457,2. Agora e so fazemos a conversao, usando para facilitar, um convertedor de medidas online http://www.convertworld.com/pt/. Entao 457,2 centimetros equivale a 4, 57 metros de altura.Acho
que nao e preciso dizer que e preciso muita coragem para filhotes que nunca voaram saltar (leap) de tao alto. Esta altura corresponde a 30 pes (30 feets) 9 metros de altura para um humano. Lembrando que existem filhotes que pulam de muito mais alto que isto. Existem o que pulam cerca de 60 pes (60 feets) (18 metros de altura.).Acho relevante aproveitar o momento para falar sobre outras unidades de medidas ( measures) mais usados no dia a dia.Medida em Ingles Valor correspondente em portuguesAlturaFoot (pes)Inch (polegada)30,48 centimetros2,54 centimetrosPeso Ounce (onca)Pound (libra)28,35 gramas453,59 gramasDistanciaMile (Milha)1km 600m1 inch (um polegada) equivale a 2,54 centimetros1 foot (um pe) equivale a 12 inches (doze polegadas) ou 30,48 centimetro1 mile (uma milha) equivale a algo perto de 1 quilometro e 600 metros1 ounce (uma onca) equivale a 28,35 gramas1 pound (uma libra) equivale a 16 ounces (16 oncas) ou 453,59 gramas. Para fixar vamos a alguns exemplos:Para falar sobre sua altura ou altura de alguem usa-se em conjunto as unidades foot e inch.Entao quando voce ouvir: she's 5 feet and 10 inch significa que ela mede algo como 1 metro e 77 cm de altura. lembrando que estas unidades aparecem geralmente na sua forma abreviada feet= ft e inch= inPara falar sobre distancia usa-se "mile" (milha). 1 mile conforme a tabela e aproximadamente 1km e 600m.ex; Brian and mary run three miles without gettig tired ( Brian e mary correm 3 km sem se cansar)My company is 15 miles from here ( minha empresa fica ou esta a 15 km daqui)Para peso usa-se as unidades ounce e pound.ex:my friend bruno is extremely fat. He is 249 pounds. He need to lose weight ( meu amigo bruno esta extremamente gordo. Ele esta com 249 libras ou 112 kg e 94 gramas. Ele precisa perder peso)I want an 10 ounce hicken steak, please ( eu quero 226 gramas de bife de frango, por favor)Ainda falando sobre a primeira parte do video E importante observar a forma como as frases sao faladas. Porque como voce deve saber, o ingles falado (spoken engish) e o grande gargalo da maioria dos aprendizes da lingua inglesa, principalmente de estudantes brasileiros. A grande questao e que tendemos a pronunciar as palavras isoladamente. Esta e uma forma errada de se praticar a conversacao que consequentemente gera dificuldade para se entender o que um nativo da lingua inglesa esta falando. Por exemplo, ao ler o que esta sendo falado no video a pessoa tem a impressao de que e capaz de entender o que sera dito. Mas e so quando ela tenta ler junto com o comentarista do video que sente a grande dificuldade. Neste video por exemplo comeca : We're inside a tree, 15 feet above a lake. High in the Rocky mountains. We're in a nest of wood duck eggs, hatching after a 30-day incubation. Em relacao a traducao um estudante intermediario nao sente dificuldade.Mas quando ouve, pensa ate se tratar de outro texto, nao do que texto que acabara de ler. Isto acontece, porque no video apresentado acontece um fenomeno chamado
linking words. Isto significa que numa conversacao normal falada por um nativo da lingua inglesa as palavras tendem a juntar-se uma a outra. por exemplo: neste pedacinho do texto "We're inside a tree.." acontece o linking words com a palavra "inside" e a letra "a". Se voce observar com atencao percebera que o DE da palavra inside se conecta com a letra "a", e que o DE da palavra "inside" assumi o som de R. Entao ouvimos: Insi de-a (ra) = insi-ra.e desta forma que ouvimos "insi-ra tree" (insaira a tree). Seguindo o texto lemos: 15 feet above a lake. Novamente acontece o linking word entre a palavra "feet" e a letra "a" da palavra "above" ficando: fee-ra bove ( firabove). Ficou confuso, nao e mesmo? nao se preocupe, isso e mais facil do que voce imagina. Tenho certeza que a medida que voce for observando pausadamente com atencao voce percebera e se acostumara com sete fenomeno na conversacao.Para nao se estender muito o post de hoje, resolvi escrever a parte 2 do video. Mas para que voce siga praticando, abaixo segue o transcript completo do video:We're inside a tree, 15 feet above a lake, high in the Rocky Mountains. We're in a nest of wood duck eggs, hatching after a 30-day incubation. And we're here to witness a rite of initiation that is at once daunting and amazing. Even though the mom duck laid her 11 eggs on different days, she didn't start sitting on them till they'd all appeared. That way, they'd all hatch on the same day. The hatchlings get to spend their first night in the nest. One night that's it. Enjoy yourselves, because tomorrow morning comes the big ordeal.Tomorrow morning arrives in a hurry. When the hatchlings first gaze at their mother, she's 15 feet below......calling for them to gulp jump down to her. Can you imagine how much courage you'd need to take the plunge to momma? Your first day on the planet, never flown before, now having to leap the human equivalent of 30 feet or more!Wow! Made it! None the worse for wear! The truth is, 15 feet isn't that big a deal. Some hatchlings have to leap 60 feet!Why would these hatchlings take such a leap? Well, if they stay in the tree, they starve to death. Yeah, that sounds like motivation to me.Mom and her eleven little hatchlings. After a rite of passage like this one, they're ready for absolutely anything.That's all for today A big hugAll the bestfabio junio almeida prates
Videos no meu ponto de vista e uma das ferramentas mais poderosas para melhorar "listening skills" (habilidade de ouvir).Hoje postei um video que fala sobre um assunto muito atual .Aborda um assunto relacionado a crise europeia, bancos privados internacionais, e etc.por que postar um video sobre este tipo de assunto?Postar um video com este tipo de tema; crise europeia, bancos internacionais e etc tem uma razao estreita com seu objetivo de melhorar seu listenig skill.Uma vez que este e o tipo de assunto com maior veiculacao atualmente.Isto significa que o assunto ouvido aqui podera ser ouvido quantas vezes voce quiser a todo momento.Essa e uma estrategia inteligente para quem quer melhorar seu listening skill. E inteligente porque muito do vocabulario ouvido e aprendido em um video tende a se repetir em outros, reforcando desta forma o entendimento da forma falada deste vocabulario.segue abaixo video com seu respectivo transcript:JEFFREY BROWN: And we take a closer look now at today's move and the reaction with Catherine Mann, professor of economics at the Brandeis International Business School. She served previously on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. And David Smick, a global economic policy strategist and author of the book "The World is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy."Catherine Mann, I will stall start with you.ARTICLE TOOLSPrintEmailFill in the picture a bit. What exactly is the problem that the central banks were trying to address?CATHERINE MANN, Brandeis University International Business School: Well, what they were trying to address was that it's become more expensive since the summer, actually, for banks to borrow from each other in the overnight market.And that's the way that banks fund themselves, is that they borrow in the overnight market from each other. And since the summer, we have been looking at the interest rate that they charge each other has been rising and rising and rising. It's now at a level or was earlier today at the level right before the crisis with Lehman Brothers.And so the central banks were looking at this really expensive cost of banks borrowing from each other as really an indicator of the amount of stress that was happening and the lack of trust between banks since they weren't going to lend to each other. So that's really what they were trying to address here.It's a narrow bank-to-bank funding question, but, of course, from that narrow place, you get into a lot of difficulty on lending more broadly to companies and to businesses.JEFFREY BROWN: Well, so, David Smick, the markets, well, they loved it, 490 points. What did they see?DAVID SMICK, "The World is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy": Well, you can't deny -- any time a 4 percent increase in equity market happens, it's significant, but not -- probably not as significant as we'd like.I agree with Catherine. This was about trust. And I think it's confusing for a lot of people. What's going on here is that in the summer, the European banks decided they didn't trust each other. And the interbank market froze. So the European Central Bank said,
we well into the interbank market.And so everything worked fine until just the last week or so, when suddenly the European banks said we don't trust the European Central Bank. We're not sure it's going to be around the ways things are going.JEFFREY BROWN: They don't trust each other because they don't know how much of their own problems are connected to...DAVID SMICK: Part of it is, too, yes, there's so much -- there's like a web of interconnectivity, but they are not -- but what's interesting now is that the global central banks, led by the Fed, said, well, do you trust us? And if they don't trust the world central banks collectively, then we have a problem.But I think it was successful, in that what you have right now is massive amount of liquidity around the world sitting on the sidelines with very cheap equity markets. So any time there's a little bit of positive news, you see this explosion in stock markets, and because it's so cheap and there's so much money just sitting there ready to move.JEFFREY BROWN: Catherine Mann, what would you add to about why the markets just took off like that?CATHERINE MANN: Well, the markets have been -- the markets are basically run by algorithmic trading these days or traders. Nobody's making investments in the stock market thinking they're getting a long-term investment in the company that they're buying a stock for.So all we're looking at is trading on news. This was big news. And so when the market opened here in the United States, the market just responded to that news in a very positive way. I think, though, that one of the downsides of this additional liquidity being put into the global marketplace is that it provides more ammunition for the traders in the marketplace who want to bet against the central bank -- or against the European Central Bank in particular, or want to bet against some of those sovereign governments in Europe that are running some difficulties.So this excess liquidity or a lot of liquidity does have a downside. And I think that we aren't thinking exactly how that ammunition is going to be used. We're thinking it's going to be used for good, but there's no guarantee that it's going to be used for good.JEFFREY BROWN: Well, David Smick, I mean, it goes to this larger question of Europe which we have talked about so many times on the program.Today's action, how much does it address or not address those deeper problems?DAVID SMICK: Well, it really is a sideshow.If you look at today and you say, when's the last time that the global central banks got together, it was three days after the Lehman crisis in 2008.JEFFREY BROWN: That was a big moment.DAVID SMICK: And you know what? The stock market, the Dow went up 6 percent, not 4 percent.The problem is that for the next three months, global stock markets dropped 30 percent, and growth globally, including in the U.S., fell off the table. The problem is, this is
a sovereign -- a solvency problem in Europe, not a liquidity problem. The -- you have a 5 trillion euro solvency problem that has to be financed by at least, it looks like, 6 percent, sometimes 7 percent or higher.And that is going to put enormous strain on the Europeans. So I would look at it and say they haven't really solved the problem of solvency. They have got this nice little takeoff. It's a reprieve, but we're really back to square one in dealing with the problem.The other thing that I would say is, I -- I think that the people who are selling Europe and have been in the last few weeks are not traders in New York, hedge funds, speculators, because they're barred from doing it. The people who are selling European sovereign debt right now are the Europeans.The European banks are selling themselves, because they're saying, we don't have confidence in our leadership.JEFFREY BROWN: Yes.Now, Catherine Mann, what about the American risk here? I mean, it was enough to get the Federal Reserve involved, right?CATHERINE MANN: Well, I think that the fact that this was a coordinated effort I think is important, because it does take the spotlight off of any individual nation state or individuals, national financial institutions, that, oh, we're going to try to help them in particular.But it is a fact that the foreign branches of -- or the U.S. branches of foreign banks -- in other words, they're a European bank, they have a branch in New York -- they are ones who are -- were particularly tight in being able to get funding, because the U.S. banks that were sitting around them in New York were closest to the accident waiting to happen.And so they were the ones that were most restrictive in their willingness to lend to those U.S. branches of foreign banks. But I do want to go back to the issue of whether or not this is just a Band-Aid and is really not addressing the underlying problem in Europe.It's very similar to the type of intervention that the central banks did before Lehman. And then, of course, we have additional problems after that. The central bank intervention that was coordinated at the time didn't solve the underlying problems of the housing market.Similarly, this intervention in Europe is not going to solve, it doesn't even come close to addressing the political problem that they face there, that it's a fiscal problem. National governments have spent too much money, they have borrowed too much over a long period of time. And for Greece in particular, there has to be some write-down of that -- those debt obligations, those so-called haircuts.JEFFREY BROWN: All right, very brief...CATHERINE MANN: ... the European fund...JEFFREY BROWN: OK. Very brief last word.DAVID SMICK: It's a little bit like the house is on fire, and...CATHERINE MANN: Right.DAVID SMICK: But, also, the pluming is backed up. Well, today, we took care of the plumbing, but the house is still on fire.JEFFREY BROWN: All right, markets were happy with better
plumbing, but we're going to continue to watch the house -- well, I hope not burn down.CATHERINE MANN: The house burn down, yes.JEFFREY BROWN: Catherine Mann and David Smick, thank you both very much.DAVID SMICK: Thanks.CATHERINE MANN: You're welcome.
HI folks! Estou aqui com a segunda parte deste divertido e interessante video sobre os primeiros passos dos patos carolinos Hoje irei compartilhar uma descoberta muito relevante para quem pratica a lingua inglesa, que e bastante oportuno no processo de analise deste video. Voce ja ouviu falar de frases fixas e semi-fixas do idioma ingles?... SE sua resposta for nao, voce esta no lugar certo. Existem muitas expressoes faladas no video que sao fixas e outras que sao variaveis. Um exemplo de frase fixa seria: Enjoy yourselves Aproveitem ou divirtam-seVeja que esta expressao nao varia.. Isto significa dizer, que e uma expressao fixa e vai aparecer sempre desta forma. No entanto, existem expressoes que sao apenas parcialmente fixas. Um exemplo deste tipo de expressao esta na expressao inicial do video:We're inside [a tree] Nos estamos dentro [de uma arvore]Neste exemplo existe a parte fixa (We're inside....) e de uma outra parte que pode variar (a tree).Sendo assim, poderiarmos mudar esta frase, substituindo apenas a parte variavel. veja os exemplos:We're inside [the block] Nos estamos dentro [do bloco]We're inside [the school] Nos estamos dentro [da escola]Como voce pode perceber, apenas as frases entre colchetes e que variam. E muito importante praticar desta maneira porque nao precisamos ficar presos apenas na expressao utilizada no video ou audio. Isto permite criarmos nossos proprios exemplos substituindo apenas a parte variavel.Seguindo com o video temos a frase: [15] feet above [a lake] [4,57] metros acima de [um lago]Neste exemplo temos uma pequena diferenca dos exemplos anteriores, que e a existencia de frases variaveis antes e depois da expressao fixa. A aplicacao de mudanca e a mesma explicada anteriormente.Agora segue abaixo o transcript completo do video com algumas possiveis mudancas de expressoes variaveis:We're inside a tree, We're inside [the school] 15 feet above a lake, [20] feet above [a build] high in the Rocky Mountains. We're in a nest of wood duck eggs, hatching after a 30-day incubation. And we're here to witness a rite of initiation that is at once daunting and amazing. Even though the mom duck laid her 11 eggs on different days, she didn't start sitting on them till they'd all appeared. That way, they'd all hatch on the same day. The hatchlings get to spend their first night [they] get to spend their [days] in the nest. One night that's it. Enjoy yourselves, because tomorrow morning comes the big ordeal.Tomorrow morning arrives in a hurry. When the hatchlings first gaze at their mother, she's 15 feet below......calling for them to gulp jump down to her. Can you imagine how much courage you'd need to take the plunge to momma? Your first day on the planet, never flown before, now having to leap the human equivalent of 30 feet or more!Wow! Made it! None the worse for wear! The truth is, 15 feet isn't that big a deal. Some hatchlings have to leap 60 feet!Why would these hatchlings take such a leap? Well, if they stay in the tree, they starve to death. they starve to [tired] Yeah, that sounds like motivation to me.
that sounds like [bad to me, you, them]Mom and her eleven little hatchlings. After a rite of passage like this one, they're ready for absolutely anything.Bom,. por hoje e isso. Se voce achou interessante, comece hoje mesmo tentar perceber as expressoes fixas e semi-fixas nos textos ou transcript de video ou audio e pratique criando seus proprios exemplos.that's all for today.All the best