They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and here we have lots of gorgeous images put together into this nice video! Listen carefully and notice how the words are combined, and how the superlatives are used to describe this place full of life, a place that lift your spirits sky high!
Traveling
Travel x trip
Vai viajar? Sabe a diferença entre travel e trip? Uma dica que facilita muito, é usar travel como verbo e trip como substantivo. Assim temos:
- I travelled to Paris.
- Eu viajei a Paris.
- My trip to Paris was exciting.
- Minha viagem a Paris foi estimulante.
- Did you have a nice trip?
- Você fez boa viagem?
- I like to travel with my family.
- Eu gosto de viajar com minha família.
Expliquei essa simples regra para um aluno, enquanto ele me contava sobre seus planos de viagens para as próximas férias.
“What do you think about my trip plans?“, ele perguntou.
“Não! São travel plans“, respondi.
Travel, nesse caso, funciona como um adjetivo. E travel ainda pode ser um substantivo, como em travel broadens the mind (Viajar amplia os horizontes). Até você dominar bem as duas palavras, para evitar confusão use trip como substantivo e travel como verbo (to trip é tropeçar).
Existe uma piadinha muito antiga para ser usada quando alguém tropeçar ao seu lado. E só dizer: “Did you have a nice trip?” Grande parte das piadas em inglês brinca com o duplo sentido dos termos. Aqui, “teve uma boa viagem?” é o mesmo que “tropeçou bem?”.
Referência: Michael Jacobs “Como Não Aprender Inglês – Edição Definitiva Editora Campus/Elsevier, 2002.
If you don’t know, ask!
Are you going to travel? Or maybe you’re just having diffilculties to communicate? Here are some things you can say:
How do you check out at a supermarket?
Remember our series of posts to help you with your travel needs? Check them out if you missed them: Introducing yourself, Describing where you are from, Exchanging contact information, Navigating passport control and Buying Tickets for Public Transportation. Today we are going to learn how to check out at a supermarket!
Do you know how to buy tickets in English?
We started with a series of posts to help you with your travel needs: Introducing yourself, Describing where you are from, Exchanging contact information and Navigating passport control. Now you are going to learn how to buy tickets for public transportation.
Beware if you are traveling!! The different pickpocketing techniques!
Useful information and good vocabulary!!
How do you checking in at a hotel?
We started with a series of posts to help you with your travel needs: Introducing yourself, Describing where you are from, Exchanging contact information, and Going through passport control. Today we are going to teach you how to check in at a hotel!
How do you go through passport control?
We started with a series of posts to help you with your travel needs: Introducing yourself, Describing where you are from and Exchanging contact information. Today we are going to teach you how to go through passport control.
Having language difficulties?
Are you going to travel? Or maybe you’re just having diffilculties do communicate? Here are some things you can say:
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