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sábado, 16 de maio de 2015

PICK UP: os 9 significados do phrasal verb e suas traduções


1. to take hold of something and lift it up from a surface [pegar alguma coisa de uma superfície]

  • As Jeff was early for his dental appointment, he picked up a magazine that was lying on the reception desk and started browsing through it.
  • Como Jeff estava adiantado para a consulta com o dentista, ele pegou uma revista que estava sobre a mesa da recepção e começou a folheá-la.


2. to collect someone or something, esp. by car [pegar alguém ou algo, esp. de carro]


  • Can you pick me up at the airport when I come back from my business trip to Chicago?”, Roger asked Bob.
  • “Você pode me pegar no aeroporto quando eu voltar da minha viagem de negócios a Chigago?”, Roger pediu a Bob.
  • “I can’t believe I’ve been so absent-minded lately! I’ve left my wallet at home again. I have to go back to pick it up!”, said Louis.
  • “Eu não acredito que ando tão distraído ultimamente! Deixei minha carteira em casa de novo. Tenho que voltar para pegá-la!”, disse Louis.

3. to improve; to get better, esp. business, the economy, etc. [melhorar, esp. negócios, a economia etc.]

  • “Our boss told us that if business doesn’t pick up this quarter, he will have to start letting people go”, Stanley told Will.
  • “Nosso chefe nos disse que, se os negócios não melhorarem neste trimestre, ele vai ter de começar a demitir pessoas”, Stanley contou a Will.

4. to learn through observation and practice [aprender informalmente]

  • Even though Paul never really took French classes, he picked up the language quickly
    while he was living in Paris some years ago.
  • Embora Paul nunca tenha tido aulas de francês para valer, ele aprendeu o idioma rapidamente quando estava morando em Paris, alguns anos atrás.

5. to receive radio signals, TV channels, etc. [captar sinais de rádio, canais de televisão, etc.; “pegar”]

  • “With the new antenna, our TV can pick up channels from TV stations over five hundred
    miles away”, Burt told his friend James.
  • “Com a antena nova, nossa TV consegue pegar canais de estações de TV a 500 milhas de distância”, Burt disse a seu amigo James.

6. to buy or get something [“pegar”; comprar alguma coisa]

  • “I haven’t had time to fix dinner. Can you pick up some pizza on your way back from
    work?”, Cathy asked her husband over the phone.
  • “Não tive tempo de preparar a janta. Você pode comprar uma pizza no caminho de volta do trabalho?”, Cathy pediu ao marido pelo telefone.

7. to catch a disease [pegar doença]

  • “Unfortunately Rick picked up some unusual kind of infection that kept him in bed for
    a few days”, Rick’s brother told us.
  • “Infelizmente, Rick pegou um tipo de infecção incomum que o fez ficar de molho por al- guns dias”, o irmão de Rick nos contou.

8. to resume [retomar, recomeçar]

  • “That’s it for today, folks. We’ll pick up with chapter five tomorrow”, said the professor.*
  • “Por hoje é só, pessoal. Amanhã vamos retomar a partir do capítulo cinco”, disse o professor.

9. to try to get to know someone hoping to have a sexual relationship [tentar conhecer alguém na esperança de ter relacionamento sexual; “pegar alguém”)

  • Dominic was always hanging out at the same bar trying to pick up women.
  • Dominic estava sempre no mesmo bar tentando pegar mulher.

FROM TECLA SAP 

sábado, 28 de fevereiro de 2015

Song Worksheet ( Present Perfect)





I Still Haven’t  find What I’m Looking For

By U2



I have… …………….. the highest mountains

I have ……………….. through the fields

Only to be with you

Only to be with you.

I have …………………, I have …………………..

I have ……………….. these city walls

These city walls

Only to be with you.

CHORUS

But I still haven't.. …………………

What I'm looking for.

But I still haven't ..…………………

What I'm looking for.

I have ………………… honey lips

Felt the healing in her finger tips

It burned like fire

This burning desire

I have ………………..… with the tongue of angels

I have ………………….. the hand of a devil

It was warm in the night

I was cold as a stone.

CHORUS

I believe in the Kingdom Come

Then all the colours will bleed into one

Bleed into one.

But yes, I'm still running.

You broke the bonds

And you loosed the chains

Carried the cross of my shame

Oh my shame, you know I believe it.


Song Worksheet



Adele - Rolling in the Deep

Song Worksheet

 

1) Circle the word that Adele sings:

 

There’s a fire

 
starting in my (cart/ heart/ fart)

Reaching a fever pitch,


it’s bringing me out the (dark/ bark/ shark)

Finally I can see you crystal clear

Go head and sell me out
and I'll lay your s*** bare
See how I leave

with every (peace/ peas/ piece) of you
 


Don’t underestimate the things that I will do

There’s a fire starting in my (cart/ heart/ fart)

 

Reaching a fever pitch
And its bring me out the dark
The scars of your love
Remind me of us

They keep me (feeling/ thinking/ dreaming)

 

That we almost had it all
The scars of your love

they (leaf/ lift/ leave) me breathless
 

I can’t help feeling

 
2) Order the song lines:
 
......... To the beat
......... You had my heart inside of your hand
......... And you played it
......... We could have had it all
......... Rolling in the deep
 
3) Complete the gaps with one of  these words:
 
told ,  shared , remind ,leave, there or  burn
 
Baby I
have no story to be ....................
But I’ve heard one of you
And I’m gonna make your head ......................
Think of me in the depths of your despair
Making a home down .......................
It reminds you of the home we .........................
The scars of your love
............................... me of us
They keep me thinking
that we almost had it all
The scars of your love
they ..................... me breathless
I can’t help feeling
 
 
4) Order the scrambled letters to  find the missing word:
 
 
 
Throw your luso ...........................
 
through every open door
Tunoc ........................... your blessings
 
to find what you look for
Turned my worors ............................
 
into treasured gold
You pay me back in dink .......................
 
and reap just what you sow