Fast-food

Seja pela vida corrida, praticidade ou falta de tempo, aumenta cada vez mais
o número de pessoas que fazem boa parte de suas refeições fora de casa, nos
*fast-foods*, *street stalls* (carrinhos de rua), *pit dogs* (trailers), ou
um belo *grease spoon*.
Conheça algumas palavras relacionadas a *Eating Out* (comer fora) neste
artigo que te deixará *mouth-watered* (de água-na-boca)!
   1. bar stool – banqueta
   2. black coffee – café puro
   3. brown bread sandwich – sanduíche de pão integral
   4. hamburger, burger – hambúrguer
   5. burger bar – lanchonete
   6. burger meal – hambúrguer com refrigerante e batatas fritas
   7. canned drink – bebida em lata
   8. chicken nuggets – pedacinhos de frango
   9. chips – batatas fritas (porção ou snacks)
   10. chutney – molho picante
   11. club sandwich – sanduíche que utiliza pão de forma
   12. doughnuts (or donuts) – rosquinhas
   13. crêpe – crepe
   14. eat-in – para comer no local
   15. espresso – café expresso
   16. fish and chips – peixe frito com batatas fritas (popular no Reino
   Unido)
   17. fried chicken – porção de frango frito (KFC and similars)
   18. fried noodles – macarrão frito, yakissoba
   19. home delivery – entrega em domicílio
   20. hot chocolate – chocolate quente
   21. lunch menu – cardápio do almoço
   22. mayonnaise, mayo – maionese
   23. mustard – mostarda
   24. napkin – guardanapo
   25. open sandwich – sanduíche no prato
   26. pizzeria (or pizza parlor/pizza place/pizza shop) – pizzaria
   27. re-heat – requentar
   28. sauce – molho
   29. sfiha – esfirra ou esfiha
   30. side order – acompanhamento
   31. skewer – espetinho
   32. specials – pratos do dia
   33. straw – canudinho
   34. take-away (or take-out) – para viagem
   35. tomato sauce (or ketchup) – ketchup
   36. tray – bandeja
   37. vending machine – máquina de venda automática
   38. white coffee – café com leite
Frases úteis
   - *Do you deliver?* – Entregam em domicílio?
   - *Can I have that to go please?* – Pode embalar pra viagem?
   - *Put the rest in a doggy bag, please.* – Coloque as sobras pra levar,
   por favor.

Jesus

A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin 5, and Ryan 3. The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake.

Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson.

-- If Jesus were sitting here, He would say: "Let my brother have the first pancake, I can wait."

Kevin turned to his younger brother and said:

-- Ryan , you be Jesus!

Vocabulary Help

• argue - discutir
• brother - irmão
• mother - mãe
• say (say, said, said) - dizer
• see (see, saw, seen) - ver
• sit (sit, sat, sat) - sentar
• son - filho
• turn to - virar-se para
• wait - esperar

First aid kit

The Half Cake Diet

A woman in our diet club was lamenting that she had gained weight.

She'd made her family's favorite cake over the weekend, she reported, and they'd eaten half of it at dinner.

The next day, she said, she kept staring at the other half, until finally she cut a thin slice for herself. One slice led to another, and soon the whole cake was gone. The woman went on to tell us how upset she was with her lack of willpower, and how she knew her husband would be disappointed.

Everyone commiserated, until someone asked what her husband said when he found out.

She smiled. "He never found out. I made another cake and ate half!"

Vocabulary Help

• gain - ganhar
• weight - peso
• cake - bolo
• weekend - final de semana
• eat (eat, ate, eaten) - comer
• half - metade
• dinner - jantar
• stare - olhar fixamente
• thin - fino
• slice - fatia
• lead (lead, led, led) - conduzir, levar
• whole - inteiro
• upset - desapontada
• lack - falta
• willpower - força de vontade
• husband - marido
• commiserate - solidarizar-se com, simpatizar
• find out - descobrir
• smile - sorrir
• make (make, made, made) - fazer

The Father and His Sons

A FATHER had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among themselves. When he failed to heal their disputes by his exhortations, he determined to give them a practical illustration of the evils of disunion; and for this purpose he one day told them to bring him a bundle of sticks.

When they had done so, he placed the faggot into the hands of each of them in succession, and ordered them to break it in pieces. They tried with all their strength, and were not able to do it. He next opened the faggot, took the sticks separately, one by one, and again put them into his sons hands, upon which they broke them easily. He then addressed them in these words: "My sons, if you are of one mind, and unite to assist each other, you will be as this faggot, uninjured by all the attempts of your enemies; but if you are divided among yourselves, you will be broken as easily as these sticks.

Vocabulary Help

• father - pai
• sons - filhos
• quarrel - brigas, disputas
• fail - falhar
• heal - curar
• give (give, gave, given) - dar
• evils - males
• tell (tell, told, told) - dizer, contar
• bundle of sticks - punhado de gravetos
• faggot - feixe
• enemy (enemies) - inimigos
• break (break, broke, broken) - quebrar
• strength - força
• take (take, took, taken) - tomar, pegar
• again - novamente
• uninjured - ileso

The Five Secrets To A Great Relationship

1. It is important to find a man who works around the house, occasionally cooks and cleans and who has a job.
2. It is important to find a man who makes you laugh.
3. It is important to find a man who is dependable, respectful and doesn't lie.
4. It is important to find a man who's good in bed and who loves to have sex with you.
5. It is important that these four men never meet.

Vocabulary Help

• find (find, found, found) - encontrar
• work around the house - cuida da casa
• cook - cozinhar
• clean - fazer a limpeza
• make you laugh - te faz rir
• dependable - confiável
• lie - mentir
• never meet - nunca se encontrem

The Best

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Dale Carnegie

Vocabulary Help

• afraid - temeroso
• give your best - dar o melhor de si
• seemingly - aparentemente
• small jobs - tarefas pequenas
• much stronger - muito mais forte
• tend - tender
• take care of themselves - se arrumarão por si só

Telephone Joke

"Hello, this is your local Zoo speaking. Do you like animals? We are experiencing severe problems with hot water. Would you be so kind as to allow us to bring our elephants over to your bathroom for a shower?"

The most common response: "Well, sure, but my neighbour's bathroom is bigger and better equipped to handle elephants."

Vocabulary Help

• speak (speak, spoke, spoke) - falar
• hot - quente
• water - água
• allow - permitir
• bring (bring, brought, brought) - trazer
• bathroom - banheiro
• shower - banho de chuveiro
• sure - certamente
• neighbour - vizinho
• handle - lidar, tratar

Sunday School

A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds.

After explaining the commandment to "honor thy Father and thy mother," she asked, "is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?"

Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, "Thou shall not kill."

Vocabulary Help

• Sunday School - escola dominical
• ten commandments - dez mandamentos
• honor thy father and thy mother - honrai pai e mãe
• brother - irmão
• sister - irmã
• without missing a beat - sem perder tempo
• thou shall not kill - não matarás

Stranded on an island

There were three people stranded on an island, a brunette, a redhead, and a blonde. The brunette looked over the water to the mainland and estimated about 20 miles to shore. So she announced, "I'm going to try to swim to shore." So she swam out five miles, and got really tired. She swam out ten miles from the island, and she was too tired to go on, so she drowned.

The second one, the redhead, said to herself, "I wonder if she made it. I guess it's better to try to get to the mainland than stay here and starve." So she attempts to swim out. The redhead had a lot more endurance than the brunette, as she swam out 10 miles before she even got tired. After 15 miles, she was too tired to go on, so she drowned.

So the blonde thought to herself, "I wonder if they made it! I think I'd better try to make it, too." So she swam out 5 miles, ten miles, 15 miles, NINETEEN miles from the island. The shore was just in sight, but she said, "I'm too tired to go on!" So she swam back.

Vocabulary Help

• stranded - perdidas
• island - ilha
• brunette - morena
• redhead - ruiva
• blonde - loira
• mainland - continente
• shore - praia
• swim (swim, swam, swum) - nadar
• tired - cansada
• drown - afogar
• made it - conseguir
• starve - morrer de fome
• endurance - resistência
• in sight - a vista
• swim back - voltar

Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, was not above telling tales about himself in which he was the laughing stock. Here is one of those stories.

As he tells it, he was waiting at a taxi stand outside the railway station in Paris.

When a taxi pulled up,he put his suitcase in it and got in himself. As he was about to tell the taxi driver where he wanted to go, the driver asked him:

"Where can I take you, Mr. Doyle?" Doyle was flabbergasted. He asked the driver whether he knew him by sight.

The driver said: "No Sir, I have never seen you before." The puzzled Doyle asked him what made him think that he was Conan Doyle.

The driver replied: "This morning's paper had a story about you being on vacation in Marseilles. This is the taxi stand where people who return from Marseilles always come to. Your skin colour tells me you have been on vacation. The ink spot on your right index finger suggests to me that you are a writer. Your clothing is very English, and not French. Adding up all those pieces of information, I deduce that you are Sir Arthur Conan Doyle." Doyle said:

"This is truly amazing. You are a real life counter part to my fictional creation, Sherlock Holmes."

"There is one other thing," the driver said.

"What is that?"

"Your name is on the front of your suitcase."

Vocabulary Help

• tales - histórias
• laughing stock - objeto de gozação, riso
• railway station - estação ferroviária
• flabbergasted - surpreso
• puzzled - surpreso, espantado
• skin - pele
• ink spot - marca de tinta
• clothing - vestuário
• amazing - surpreendente

Sex Pills

-- "Doc, you've gotta help me! My wife just isn't interested in sex anymore. Haven't you got a pill or something I can give her?" "Look, I can't prescribe..."

-- "Doc, we've been friends for years. Have you ever seen me this upset? I am desperate! I can't think; I can't concentrate; my life is going utterly to hell! You've got to help me."

-- The doctor opens his desk drawer and removes a small bottle of pills. "Ordinarily, I wouldn't do this. These are experimental; the tests so far indicate that they're VERY powerful. Don't give her more than ONE, understand? Just ONE."

-- "I don't know, doc, she's awfully cold..."

-- "One. No more. In her coffee. Okay?"

-- "Um... Okay."

-- The guy expresses gratitude and leaves for home, where his wife has dinner waiting. When dinner is finished, she goes to the kitchen to bring dessert. The man hastily pulls the pills from his pocket and drops one into his wife's coffee. He reflects for a moment, hesitates, then drops in a second pill. And then he begins to worry. The doctor did say they were powerful. Then inspiration strikes he drops one pill into his own coffee. His wife returns with the shortcake and they enjoy their dessert and coffee. Sure enough, a few minutes after they finish, his wife shudders a little, sighs deeply and heavily, and a strange look comes over her. In a near whisper and a tone of voice he has never heard her use before, she says, "I...need... a man..."

-- His eyes glitter and his hands tremble as he replies, "Me... Too..."

Vocabulary Help

• awfully - terrivelmente
• dessert - sobremesa
• worry - preocupar
• drop - colocar
• shudder - tremer
• sigh - suspirar
• deeply - profundamente
• whisper - suspiro
• glitter - brilhar

What they think of us

At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At 40, we don't care what they think of us. At 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all."

Vocabulary Help

• age - idade
• worry - preocupar
• think (think, thought, thought) - pensar
• care - preocupar
• discover - descobrir

Aprenda as cores em inglês:

Red

Blue

Green

Yellow

White

Black

Gray

Orange

Pink

Beige

Turquoise

Purple

Sad Stories

Bill, Jim & Scott were at a convention together & were sharing a large suite on the top of a 75-story skyscraper.

After a long day of meetings, they were shocked to hear that the elevators in their hotel were broken & they would have to climb 75 flights of stairs to get to their room.

Bill said to Jim & Scott,"Let's break the monotony of this unpleasant task by concentrating on something interesting. I'll tell jokes for 25 flights, Jim can sing songs for the next 25 flights and Scott can tell sad stories for the rest of the way."

At the 26th floor, Bill stopped telling jokes & Jim began to sing. At the 51st floor Jim stopped singing & Scott began to tell sad stories.

"I will tell my saddest story first," he said."I left the room key in the car!!!

Vocabulary Help

• sad - triste
• sharing - dividindo
• skyscraper - arranha-céu
• meetings - reuniões, encontros
• climb - subir a pé
• flights of stairs - escadas
• task - tarefa

Minhas listas - ...em pleno crescimento

PALAVRAS IDÊNTICAS OU MUITO PARECIDAS

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O QUE VOCÊ NÃO SABE QUE SABE EM INGLÊS

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PROVÉRBIOS EM INGLÊS

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PALAVRAS COM A MESMA PRONÚNCIA, PORÉM COM ESCRITA DIFERENTE

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FALSOS COGNATOS OU FALSE FRIENDS

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Strange but Interesting Facts

Strange but Interesting Facts (3)

• China has more English speakers than the United States.
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
• "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• Cats have over 100 vocal sounds, dogs only have about 10.
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our noses and ears never stop growing.
• Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
• In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
• Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
• Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. State capital without a McDonald's.
  ==Vocabulary Help==
• at a time - de cada vez
• blink - piscar
• cat - gato
• dog - cão
• ear - ouvido
• electric chair - cadeira elétrica
• eye - olho
• full moon - lua cheia
• grow (grow, grew, grown) - crescer
• nose - nariz
• sound - som

Relativity

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

Einstein

Vocabulary Help

• sit (sit, sat, sat) - sentar
• pretty girl - garota bonita
• seems like - parece
• hot stove - fogão quente

Expressões Úteis da Língua Inglesa

Colaboração: Diones Alves

"TER" AS TO BE (15)

O verbo ter do português é largamente usado, aparecendo muito em expressões do nosso cotidiano e assumindo freqüentemente um papel idiomático. O verbo to have, que seria seu correspondente em inglês, tem um uso mais restrito, não aparecendo muito em formas idiomáticas. O verbo to be, por outro lado, cobre em inglês uma grande área de significado, aparecendo em muitas expressões do dia a dia, de forma semelhante ao verbo ter do português. Portanto, muitas vezes ter corresponde a to be, conforme os seguintes exemplos:

Quantos anos você tem? - How old are you?

Você tem certeza? - Are you sure?

Você tem razão. - You are right.

Não tenho medo de cachorro. - I'm not afraid of dogs.

O que é que tem de errado? - What's wrong?

Não tive culpa disso. - It wasn't my fault.

Tivemos sorte. - We were lucky.

Tenha cuidado. - Be careful.

Tenho pena deles (sinto por eles). - I feel sorry for them.

Isto não tem graça. - That's not funny.

Não tenho condições de trabalhar. / Não estou em condições ... - I'm not able to work. / I can't work.

Ela tem vergonha de falar inglês. - She's too shy to speak English.

Você tem que ter paciência. - You must be patient.

Ele tem facilidade para línguas. / Tem jeito ... - He's good at languages.

Este quarto tem 3 metros de largura por 4 de comprimento. - This room is 3 meters wide by 4 meters long.

ESTAR DE ... E ESTAR COM ... - PORTUGUESE "ESTAR DE ..." / "ESTAR COM ..." (19)

A combinação do verbo estar com as preposições de e com é muito comum em português, sendo que os significados que essas combinações representam, podem assumir diferentes formas em inglês, conforme os seguintes exemplos:

Estou com frio. / ... fome. / ... medo. / ... sono. - I'm cold. / ... hungry. / ... afraid. / ... sleepy.

Estou com vontade de beber uma cerveja. - I feel like drinking a beer. / I'd like to drink ...

Estou com pressa. - I'm in a hurry.

Estou com dor de cabeça. - I've got a headache. / I have a headache.

Está com defeito. - It's out of order.

Está com jeito de chuva. - It looks like rain.

Ela está com 15 anos. - She is 15 years old.

Estou de ressaca. - I've got a hangover. / I have a hangover. / I'm hung over.

Ela está de aniversário. - Today is her birthday. / She's celebrating her birthday today.

Estou de férias. - I'm on vacation. / ... on holidays.

Estou de folga. - It's my day off.

Estou de serviço. - I'm on duty.

Estou de castigo. - I'm grounded.

Estou de saída. / ... de partida. - I'm leaving.

Estou só de passagem. / I was just passing by.

Estamos de acordo. - We agree.

Estou com pouco dinheiro. / Estou mal de dinheiro. - I'm short of money.

Está de cabeça para baixo. / Está de pernas para o ar. - It's upside down.

Está tudo misturado. - It's all mixed up.

Este post é para Biólogos "insetos"

1. Formiga: Ant
Ex: Ants can lift up to 20 times their own body weight. (As formigas conseguem erguer pesos até vinte vezes maiores que o próprio.)

2. Abelha: Bee
Ex: Bees produce honey. (Abelhas produzem mel.)

3. Barata: Cockroach
Ex: Most women are afraid of cockroaches. (A maioria das mulheres tem medo de baratas.)

4.Libélula: Dragonfly
Ex: Dragonflies are predators that eat mosquitoes and other small insects. (Libélulas são predadores que comem mosquitos e outros insetos pequenos.)

5. Gafanhoto: Grasshopper
Ex: From every part of this State complaints of the grasshopper plague is assuming alarming proportions. (Em todas as partes deste estado, as reclamações da praga de gafanhotos estão tomando proporções alarmantes.)

6. Borboleta: Buttefly
Ex: I think butterflies are very beautiful. (Eu acho as borboletas muito bonitas.)

7. Besouro: Beetle
Ex: The beetles were taken to the laboratory after that. (Os besouros foram levados para o laboratório depois disso.)

8. Joaninha: Ladybug
Ex: Today, ladybugs are used to symbolize good luck and fortune. (Hoje, as joaninhas são usadas para simbolizar boa sorte e futuro.)

9. Mosquito: Mosquito
Ex: Dengue Mosquitoes breed in still water. (O mosquito da dengue reproduz em água parada.)

10. Vespa, Marimbondo: Wasp
Ex: A wasp stung him on the arm. (Um vespa o picou no braço.)

11. Piolho: Louse
Ex: Her son had lice when he was seven. (O filho dela tinha piolho quando tinha sete anos.)

12. Mosca: Fly
Ex: I think there is a fly in my soup. (Eu acho que tem uma mosca na minha sopa.)

13. Inseto: Bug
Ex: There are a lot of bugs near the river. (Há muitos insetos perto do rio.)