English Class/26/03/thursday- Conjunctions

*After

#The books will be sent to the library after I have read them.
#I will comment just after I know your point of view.

*Although/though

*Although I am your teacher, I'm not supposed to have all the answers. Never forget that nobody is perfect.

*Though Ronaldo is really overweight , He is much better than the great number of players.

*As

#As I told you before ,I strongly believe that English is an opened door to the world.

#As your brother ,I must help you to overcome your problems.

*As if/as though

#He gives orders as if he were the master of the house.

#Sometimes I fell if I were the worst man of the world.

*She talks as though she understood about everything.

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English Class/26-03/thursday

Idiomatic Expressions

1)The apple of someone's eyes.

* I have three wonderful daughters. I love all of them but the oldest Sabrina is my right hand. I know I can count on her for everything. Actually she 's the apple of my eyes...I mean, My favorite one.

* I don't have a car , however, I promised myself that when I decide to buy one I will buy the best one. The one I've dreamed all my life... The apple of my eyes...a red Ferrari.

2)At the end of someone's rope.

* Rebeca's life is getting more and more complicated. Yesterday morning she had a car accident, arrived late to work and got fired immediately...after that a lot of bad things came out of the blue just to complicate a little more her situation. She is getting nervous and nervous...don't talk to her, let her alone ...cos' she is at the end of her rope.

* Have you ever been at the end of your hope? What for? What happened to you ?

3)Beat around the bush.

* Andrew and Michael are the owners of a big company. They are up to make an important and hard decision...to say to a job's candidate that he is not going to be employed:

*Michael:" Well, I took a look on your resume and I really appreciated what I've seen. You are really prepared to work either for this company or for any company you apply for. Let's face it, the problem with your resume is that we can't offer you the same or higher salary you certainly deserve. For this reason, I feel so sorry to say you that unfortunately you are not in our plans.

*Andrew: " Thanks for coming. We made our decision and you are not the one we are looking for. Thanks a lot and good luck next time"

* Michael, as well as Andrew,decided do not employ the candidate . While Michael was beating around the bush, Andrew went straight to the source.


4)Bend over backwards.

* When you have a dream that can change your life for good, you certainly bend over backwards to make it come true. You don't mind how many years you are going to work without vacations or how many sleepless nights you are going to spend dreaming about your dream.

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I believe I can fly - English video class

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we are the world with english subtittle

This is the first video that I put on blog. It was chosen because its message has helped millions of people around this trouble world. The subtittle is in English , so take your dictionaries and translate it to Portuguese according to your knowledge.This videos is special cos' you can see , at the time they are singing, all the names of those special singers that offered their talents in favor of the people from Africa. I hope you can remember them. Sing with them and have a goood study.

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