LIKA Kabariti English Teacher

Feliz e abençoado dia das mães!!!!

Vai daí pra bem@pior…

'Um dia descobri que cantava.
O meu filho mais velho João Carlos estava morrendo e eu já tinha perdido 2 filhos e não queria perder mais um.
Eu não tinha dinheiro pra cuidar do meu filho e ouvi no rádio que o programa do Ary Barroso de calouros Nota 5, estava com o prêmio acumulado. Não sei como, mas eu sabia que ia buscar esse prêmio!
Fiz a inscrição e me avisaram que eu precisava ir bonita. Mas eu não tinha roupa nem sapatos, não tinha nada! Então, eu peguei uma roupa da minha mãe, que pesava 60kg e vesti, só que eu pesava 32kg, já viu né? Ajustei com alfinetes. Tudo bem que agora é moda ne? Hoje até a Madonna usa, mas essa moda aí fui eu que comecei viu? Alfinetes na roupa é muito meu, é coisa de Elza!
No pé coloquei uma sandália que a gente chamava de “mamãe tô na merda”, e fui!

Quando me chamaram, levantei e entrei no palco do auditório. O auditório tava lotado, todo mundo começou a rir alto debochando de mim
Seu Ary me chamou e perguntou:
_ O que você veio fazer aqui?
_ Eu vim Cantar!
_ Me diz uma coisa, de que planeta você veio?
_ Do mesmo planeta seu Seu Ary.
_ E qual é o meu planeta?
_ PLANETA FOME!

Ali, todo mundo que estava rindo viu que a coisa era séria e sentaram bem quietinhos.
Cantei a música Lama.
O Gongo não soou e eu ganhei, levei o prêmio e meu filho está vivo até hoje, graças a Deus!
De lá pra cá, sempre levo comigo um Alfinete.
Naquela época eu achava que se tivesse alimentos pros meus filhos, não teria mais fome. O tempo passou e eu continuei com fome, fome de cultura, de dignidade, de educação, de igualdade e muito mais, percebo que a fome só muda de cara, mas não tem fim.
Há sempre um vazio que a gente não consegue preencher e talvez seja essa mesma a razão da nossa existência.'
- Elza Soares

Crédito:

Listening Tips

Listening to as much English as possible will help to improve your speaking.
Listening to songs, podcasts, films, TV series or video clips will help you to feel more confident about speaking.

Speak as much English in class as possible. If you speak English regularly in class, you will find it easier to speak in an exam.
Slow down! It’s not a race. Before you speak, think carefully about what to say and speak a little slower than normal.

Use language you know is correct. Use words and expressions you have used before.
If you don’t know a word, think of another way to say it. For example, if you know the word ‘expensive’, but can’t remember the word ‘cheap’, you could say:
It’s not expensive.
It’s a good price.
It’s not a lot of money.

Listen to yourself while you speak and if you hear a mistake, correct it. Native speakers make mistakes and correct them all the time.

Look at the examiner’s or other student’s face and eyes when you speak. Do they understand you? If not, say it again with different words.
If you don’t understand the question or the activity, ask the examiner. Say: ‘Could you repeat that, please?’

Always say something. Don’t just say ‘yes’ or ‘no’. Explain your answer with a reason. Say ‘Yes, I agree because....’
If you can choose the question or topic, choose one you know something about. It’s easier to talk about something you know.
Speak clearly so that the examiner can hear you. If you find this difficult, practise with a friend at home. Stand at opposite ends of a room and speak to each other in English. Or speak to each other in English on your computers.
What can you prepare before the exam? Ask your teacher. For example, questions about personal information. Prepare what to say at home and practise with a friend, in front of a mirror or record yourself on your phone or computer.

In some exams, there are two examiners. One who talks to you and one who listens. Say hello and goodbye to both examiners, but during the exam, focus on the examiner who talks to you.
This is your opportunity to show the examiner what you know. Use your best language and pronunciation.
Remember that everyone feels nervous in exams.
So, take some deep breaths before the exam and try to relax.
Finally, remember that the examiners are normal human beings, not aliens!

British Council

Boa semana 🙏💜🍀💫⭐

1. Allegro speech: the deliberate misspelling, respelling, or non-standard alternative spelling of words (as in the Chick-fil-A slogan "Eat Mor Chikin")
2. Bicapitalization (also known as CamelCase, embedded caps, InterCaps, and midcaps): the use of a capital letter in the middle of a word or name—as in iMac or eBay
3. Clitic: a word or part of a word that's structurally dependent on a neighboring word and can't stand on its own (such as the contracted n't in can't)
4. Diazeugma: a sentence construction in which a single subject is accompanied by multiple verbs (as in the sentence "Reality lives, loves, laughs, cries, shouts, gets angry, bleeds, and dies, sometimes all in the same instant')
5. Dirimens copulatio: a statement (or a series of statements) that balances one idea with a contrasting idea (as in Ben Franklin's counsel "not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment")
6. Feghoot: an anecdote or short story that concludes with an elaborate pun
7. Grawlix: the series of typographical symbols (@*! #*&!) used in cartoons and comic strips to represent swear words
8. Haplology: a sound change involving the loss of a syllable when it's next to a phonetically identical (or similar) syllable (such as the pronunciation of probably as "probly")
9. Hidden verb: a noun-verb combination used in place of a single, more forceful verb (for example, make an improvement in place of improve)
10. Malaphor: a blend of two aphorisms, idioms, or clichés (as in "That's the way the cookie bounces")
11. Metanoia: the act of self-correction in speech or writing (or to put that a better way, self-editing)
12. Miranym: a word that's midway in meaning between two opposite extremes (like the word translucent, which falls between transparent and opaque)
13. Moses illusion: the phenomenon whereby readers or listeners fail to recognize an inaccuracy in a text
14. Mountweazel: a bogus entry deliberately inserted in a reference work as a safeguard against copyright infringement
15. Negative-positive restatement: a method of achieving emphasis by stating an idea twice, first in negative terms and then in positive terms (as when John Cleese said, "It's not pining, it's passed on. This parrot is no more!")
16. Paralepsis: the rhetorical strategy of emphasizing a point by seeming to pass over it (as when Dr. House remarked, "I don't want to say anything bad about another doctor, especially one who's a useless drunk")
17. Paraprosdokian: an unexpected shift in meaning (often for comic effect) at the end of a sentence, stanza, or short passage
18. Phrop: a phrase (such as "I don't like to boast . . .") that often means the opposite of what it says
19. Politeness strategies: speech acts that express concern for others and minimize threats to self-esteem in particular social contexts (for instance, "Would you mind stepping aside?")
20. Pseudoword: a fake word—that is, a string of letters that resembles a real word (such as cigbet or snepd) but doesn't actually exist in the language
21. RAS syndrome: the redundant use of a word that's already included in an acronym or initialism (for example, PIN number)
22. Restaurantese: the specialized language (or jargon) used by restaurant employees and on menus (such as any item described as farm-fresh, succulent, or artisanal)
23. Rhyming compound: a compound word that contains rhyming elements, like fuddy duddy, pooper-scooper, and voodoo
24. Sluicing: a type of ellipsis in which an interrogative element is understood as a complete question (as in "My folks were fighting last week, but I don't know what about")
25. Word word: a word or name that's repeated to distinguish it from a seemingly identical word or name ("Oh, you're talking about grass grass")

Don't Confuse the Hyphen With the Dash

By Richard Nordquist

The hyphen is a short horizontal mark of punctuation ( - ) used between the parts of a compound word or name, or between the syllables of a word when divided at the end of a line. Don't confuse the hyphen (-) with the dash (—).

As a general rule, compound adjectives that come before a noun are hyphenated (for example, "a coffee-colored tie"), but compound adjectives that come after a noun are not hyphenated ("My tie was coffee colored"). Hyphens are usually omitted with commonly used compound adjectives (such as "the tax reform bill") and with adjectives preceded by adverbs ending in -ly ("an oddly worded note").

In a suspended compound, such as "short- and long-term memory systems," note that a hyphen and a space follow the first element and a hyphen without a space follows the second element.

David Crystal describes the hyphen as "the most unpredictable of marks." Examining all the possible variations in the use of the hyphen, he says, would call for "an entire dictionary, because each compound word has its own story."

Etymology
From the Greek, a sign indicating a compound or two words that are read as one

Examples and Observations
"The hyphen continues to serve us, often by removing ambiguity from sentences. . . . Here are some expressions whose ambiguity can be removed by a hyphen: old furniture dealer, hot cow’s milk, the minister met small businessmen, 30 odd members, a little known city, recovered the sofa, man eating tiger. Lynne Truss points to the different meanings of 'extra marital s*x' with and without a hyphen."

"I have a worn-out and faded brown robe that I cherish above all my other robes."

"I was worn out, bored, and feeling extremely sorry for myself."

"Along the front of the wall she created a ten-foot-wide sloping garden, which met the final twenty feet of lawn that ran out to the sidewalk."
(Gordon Hayward, Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guide to Garden Paths. Houghton Mifflin, 1998)
"I did not achieve this position in life by having some snot-nosed punk leave my cheese out in the wind."
(Jeffrey Jones as Principal Ed Rooney, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, 1986)

"The mourners on the front benches sat in a blue-serge, black-crepe-dress gloom."
(Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1970)
"Yesterday, rain-fog; today, frost-mist. But how fascinating each."(Fiona Macleod, "At the Turn of the Year," 1903)
"I'm part of the blame-America-last crowd."(Stephen Colbert)
"New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions."
(William James, Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, 1907)
"Lord Emsworth belonged to the people-like-to-be-left-alone-to-amuse-themselves-when-they-come-to-a-place school of hosts."
(P.G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh, 1915)
"The hyphen is the most un-American thing in the world."(Attributed to President Woodrow Wilson)
Quick Guidelines for Using Hyphens
"The use of hyphens in compounds and complex words involves a number of different rules, and practice is changing, with fewer hyphens present in contemporary usage. For example, compound words may be written as separate words (post box), hyphenated (post-box) or written as one word (postbox).
"Particular prefixes regularly involve a hyphen (e.g. ex-minister, post-war, self-interest, quasi-public).
"Hyphens are normally used in compounds in which the pre-head item is a single capital letter (e.g. U-turn, X-ray), and hyphens are sometimes needed to disambiguate certain words (e.g. re-form = form again, reform = change radically).
"In numerically modified adjectives, all modifying elements are hyphenated. Note that these forms are only used attributively (e.g. an eighteen-year-old girl, a twenty-ton truck, a twenty-four hour flight)."
(R. Carter and M. McCarthy, Cambridge Grammar of English. Cambridge University Press, 2006)
How Punctuation Practices Change
"Here's [an example] of the way practices change. It's standard now to spell today, tomorrow, and tonight without a space or hyphen. But when the words first arrived in Old and Middle English they were seen as a combination of preposition to followed by a separate word (dæg, morwen, niht), so they were spaced. This usage was reinforced by Dr. Johnson, who listed them as to day etc. in his Dictionary (1755). But people began to think differently in the nineteenth century, and we see the big new dictionaries (such as Worcester's and Webster's) hyphenating the words. People began to get fed-up with this in the twentieth century. Henry Fowler came out against it in his Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926): The lingering of the hyphen, which is still usual after the to of these words, is a very singular piece of conservatism. He blames printers for its retention, in a typical piece of Fowlerish irony: It is probably true that few people in writing ever dream of inserting the hyphen, its omission being corrected every time by those who profess the mystery of printing. 'Lingering' was right. In fact we see instances of the hyphenated form right into the 1980s." (David Crystal, Making a Point: The Persnickety Story of English Punctuation. St. Martin's Press, 2015)

Churchill on Hyphens
"One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible. Where a composite word is used it is inevitable, but . . . [my] feeling is that you may run them together or leave them apart, except when nature revolts."(Winston Churchill, to his long-time secretary Eddie Marsh, 1934)
The Lighter Side of Hyphens
"I'll have the misspelled Caesar salad and the improperly hyphenated veal osso-buco."
(Restaurant patron to a waiter, cartoon in The New Yorker, June 3, 2002)
Reggie: The program sets them up with a fair income, and a nice little house. White, with a walk-in closet. . . . Well, write it down. "Walk-in closet."
Roy: Is "walk in" hyphenated?
(Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones in The Client, 1994)
Bartender: Who would you be?
Wilson: High-Spade Frankie Wilson—with a hyphen. That's what I sit on when I get tired.