Hello!

USOS INTERESSANTES

DA PALAVRA “HELLO”

Por Redação Wizard
21 de dezembro de 2023

O mundo do idioma Inglês é rico em palavras que vão além de seus significados aparentes. Uma delas, “HELLO” 👋🏽, vai muito além de uma simples saudação. É uma palavra que transcende fronteiras, usada em uma variedade de contextos que vão desde cumprimentos cordiais até expressões artísticas e programação de computadores. Neste artigo, observaremos vários usos dessa palavra, explorando suas diferentes facetas e como ela se adapta a diversas situações do nosso cotidiano.

1. Saudação amigável

• Hello! (Olá!)

Uso: Uma saudação comum para cumprimentar alguém de forma amigável.

2. Início de conversas telefônicas

• Hello, how are you today? (Alô, como você está hoje?)

Uso: Utilizado ao atender ligações telefônicas como uma saudação inicial.

3. Introdução em apresentações

• Hello everyone, I’m delighted to be here. (Olá a todos, estou encantado por estar aqui.)

Uso: Empregado para iniciar apresentações de forma calorosa e envolvente.

4. Uso informal para chamar a atenção

• Hello? Is anyone there? (Alô? Tem alguém aí?)

Uso: Utilizado informalmente para chamar a atenção ou verificar se alguém está presente.

5. Uso em manifestações artísticas

• Adele’s “Hello” (a música “Hello” de Adele)

Uso: Exemplo de como a palavra é incorporada artisticamente, como nesse caso da famosa música de Adele.

6. Início de mensagens escritas

• Hello, I hope this message finds you well. (Olá, espero que esta mensagem o encontre bem.)

Uso: Um começo cordial em comunicações escritas, como e-mails ou cartas.

7. Uso da palavra HELLO em programação de computadores

• “Hello, World!” (Olá, Mundo!)

Uso: Um exemplo clássico e simples utilizado para ensinar conceitos básicos de programação. (Clique AQUI para ler um artigo sobre o assunto.)

8. Uso para chamar a atenção de alguém

• Hello, can you hear me? (Olá, você pode me ouvir?)

Uso: Utilizado para chamar a atenção de alguém em situações em que se deseja confirmar a audição ou atenção.

Conclusão
A palavra “HELLO” transcende seu uso como uma saudação comum e encontra aplicação em várias situações do dia a dia, desde a comunicação diária até expressões artísticas e programação. Conhecer suas diferentes aplicações ajuda a entender a riqueza e versatilidade dessa palavra tão simples, mas tão universal na Língua Inglesa.

Adaptado de: https://www.wizard.com.br/idiomas/usos-interessantes-da-palavra-hello/. Acesso em: 25 jan. 2024. Copyright © 2024 Wizard by Pearson. Todos os direitos reservados.

New English Words

8 PALAVRAS NOVAS EM INGLÊS

Por Redação Wizard
16 de dezembro de 2022

Todo idioma é dinâmico e, portanto, com o passar dos anos, ele vai se transformando e agregando novos vocábulos, conforme diferentes influências de sua população. Por isso, não é à toa que os dicionários mais recentes contam com diversas palavras novas em Inglês, justamente porque a língua evolui a todo o tempo e novas expressões surgem a cada dia.
E para comprovar essa tese, segue uma lista de palavras novas no idioma e, com certeza, muitas delas serão novidades para você.

Afinal, de onde surgem essas palavras novas em Inglês?
Antes de iniciarmos a nossa lista de palavras novas no Inglês, é interessante ressaltar sobre a origem desses termos.
São várias as suas raízes, podendo, por exemplo, ter ligações com o advento de novas tecnologias, de influências de línguas estrangeiras, do surgimento de gírias e, até mesmo, a “reinvenção” de palavras antigas.
E isso não é de hoje. Os idiomas, em geral, surgiram a partir desse enorme caldeirão de misturas e influências; só que agora, de fato, a impressão é que tudo é muito mais rápido e dinâmico, já que as palavras novas parecem surgir a cada momento.

Conheça algumas das palavras novas em Inglês

ATENÇÃO: Clique sobre as palavras para escutar a pronúncia.

1. GHOST
Não é uma palavra nova no Inglês, mas, como foi citado acima, muitas das novas palavras do idioma, na verdade, têm origem em uma espécie de “reinvenção” de termos antigos.
E esse é o principal exemplo que podemos trazer aqui na lista. Afinal, “ghost” continua servindo para a tradução de “fantasma” ou “espírito”. No entanto, hoje, além de ser um substantivo, a palavra se transformou em um verbo também.
Na prática, ele é aplicado para dizer que alguém sumiu ou desapareceu repentina ou completamente, ignorando, por exemplo, mensagens de textos e ligações.

• I’m trying to call her, but she won’t answer anymore. She ghosted me!

2. MANSPREAD
Sabe aquele cara que se senta de qualquer jeito no metrô ou no ônibus, abre as pernas e não está nem aí para quem está do lado? Pois bem, hoje existe uma palavra nova em Inglês para se referir a esse tipo de atitude: manspreading.
Na tradução, dá para fazer uma comparação literal ao que acabamos de explicar. Afinal, “man” significa “homem” e “spread” quer dizer “espalhar”. Sendo assim, seria algo do tipo “homem espalhado”.

3. SRIRACHA
Curte comida com sriracha? Se você não faz ideia do que seja isso, a gente já pode adiantar que se trata de uma das palavras novas em Inglês mais populares nas lanchonetes dos EUA atualmente.
Como é de se imaginar, a sua origem vem de fora, mais exatamente da Tailândia, e se refere a um molho apimentado que é oferecido em diversos lanches e pratos.
Na prática, esse “hot sauce” é uma mistura de pimenta malagueta, alho e especiarias, e simplesmente bombou nos cardápios dos Estados Unidos de tempos pra cá. Aliás, dá até para achar receitas na internet para você fazer seu próprio molho sriracha em casa. Que tal experimentar?

4. FROYO
Já que estamos falando de comida, veja para mais uma palavra nova: froyo!
Na verdade, essa palavrinha é uma abreviação de frozen yogurt e, como aqui no Brasil, surgiram várias lojas especializadas nesse tipo de doce gelado lá nos Estados Unidos.
Elas ganharam popularidade entre os jovens e, claro, renderam uma gíria mais moderna e amigável aos ouvidos.

5. HANGRY
Das palavras novas em Inglês dessa lista, talvez essa seja a mais fácil de descobrir. O termo hangry nada mais é do que uma junção de “hungry” (faminto) com “angry” (bravo).
Sabendo disso, não é difícil entender o significado da palavra, não é? Aliás, quem nunca se zangou com a barriga vazia?

• I can’t work like this! I’m hangry!

6. MANSPLAIN
Outra dica entre as palavras novas em Inglês se refere a uma atitude muito comum entre alguns homens e que se reforçou nos últimos anos com o crescimento de movimentos feministas.
Estamos falando do chamado “mansplaining”, quando um homem busca explicar algo a uma mulher, mas se impondo em uma posição superior, meio que como se fosse melhor ou com mais conhecimento que ela.

7. GLAMPING
Que tal um final de semana acampando com o pessoal em meio à natureza? Não aprecia muito a ideia e prefere algo mais confortável e até mesmo chique? Então, uma excelente opção para você seria fazer um glamping, que é a mistura de “glamour” e “camping”.
E além de ser uma palavra nova em Inglês, isso se tornou também uma tendência global no turismo de aventura, trazendo propostas para quem gosta da ideia de estar junto à natureza, mas sem precisar abrir mão daquele chuveirinho quente, de um café da manhã e, claro, de um bom mosquiteiro na cama.

8. BINGE WATCH
Se você é daquelas pessoas que “maratona” séries de TV, saiba que rola uma expressão semelhante para dizer o mesmo em Inglês. Estamos falando de “binge watch”, umas das palavras novas do idioma que surgiram recentemente com o advento do streaming.
Na prática, como bem explicamos, esse termo é usado para se referir à prática de assistir um episódio atrás do outro nas plataformas.

Em resumo, essas são apenas algumas dicas de palavras novas em Inglês entre as infinitas novidades que constam nos dicionários mais modernos do idioma. E a impressão é de que tudo hoje é ainda mais dinâmico e rápido e, portanto, é preciso se atualizar a cada dia para não ficar para trás.

Adaptado de: https://www.wizard.com.br/idiomas/8-palavras-novas-em-ingles/. Acesso em: 25 jan. 2024. Copyright © 2024 Wizard by Pearson. Todos os direitos reservados.

Usage Notes

FUN, FUNNER, FUNNEST 😱

Why does it sound strange to say

“funner” or “funnest”?

MERRIAM-WEBSTER

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Welcome to Ask the Editor. I’m Emily Brewster, an associate editor at Merriam-Webster.

• I’ve never been to a funner party.
• It was the funnest party I can remember.

As a one-syllable adjective, fun should by all rights have the comparative and superlative forms funner and funnest, just like new has newer and newest. But spellcheckers and lots of people think funner and funnest are just plain wrong.
The not-quite-kosher status of funner and funnest has its origin in the adjectival status itself of fun. Just as funnest party sounds strange to many of us, there are a number of people who also object to sentences like, “The party was really fun.”
They’d prefer we all use fun only as a noun.

• We had great fun.
• The party was such fun.

Adjectival use dates back at least as far as the 1840s, but until the mid-20th century, it was pretty rare. Perhaps there was something about postwar America that just felt, oh, more fun to people than a noun could express.
Fun as a noun does continue to be more common, and there are still some who think uses like so fun, very fun, and fun times should be avoided in any kind of serious discourse, but their numbers are dwindling, and the adjective fun is fully accepted by a number of dictionaries, including ours.

• Does this mean funner and funnest are destined for full acceptance, too? Certainly possible. Likely, even.

More fun and most fun are still the usual comparative and superlative forms of fun, but funner and funnest are included in our dictionaries, with a sometimes label, because we have plenty of evidence of them in published, edited text.
They’re most natural when paired with other similar adjectives; a bigger and funner event, the funnest and funniest person.
I say, don’t hesitate to use them if you’re inclined to. It’ll be funner if you do.

For more from the Ask the Editor series, visit merriam-webster.com.

Adapted from: https://www.merriam-webster.com/video/fun-funner-funnest. Accessed on January 24, 2024. © 2024 Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. All rights reserved.

Learning English

LEARNING ENGLISH REQUIRES PATIENCE!

🐢🐇⏳

BOB THE CANADIAN
YouTube Channel
Jan. 16, 2024

Learning English takes time and patience. There are so many words, rules, and unique phrases. Some learners might find it hard to understand advanced sentences, pronunciation, and grammar. But, remember, learning slowly and methodically is actually good. It helps us really get the basics, which is important for your learning.
In this English lesson, Bob will encourage us to learn at a steady pace, and at the same time he’ll teach us 7 very common English sayings and phrases about this approach to a task. We’ll learn the meaning of the following sayings and phrases:

• Slow and steady wins the race.
• Cross your t's and dot you i's.
• Haste makes waste!
• Do it slowly but surely.
• Rome wasn't built in a day.
• Measure twice, cut once.
• Good things come to those who wait.

Just remember, being patient is key. We’ll need to keep practicing, even when it feels hard. Being patient and practicing regularly will make learning English a good experience. 😉

⌛ Remember: Always watch the video three times. Twice today with English subtitles on, and once tomorrow with the English subtitles off. This will reinforce the English we have learned!

EXPRESSIONS FROM THE VIDEO

1. Slow and steady wins the race
Originated from the story “The tortoise and the hare”, this saying means that, when you do something slow and steady, you’re doing it carefully – about learning English, it means you’ll learn more and remember more.

2. Cross your t’s and dot you i’s
It means you have to go back and look at something you’ve written in particular, and make sure there are no spelling mistakes, the verbs are conjugated correctly – you do a thorough job, a careful work.

3. Haste makes waste
It means you should slow down, take it easy, just go slowly and carefully in order to do a good job (to learn English well).

4. Slowly but surely
When you do something slowly but surely, it means you don’t do it fast, and you do it with thought put into every step of the process: plan out your week, do a little bit every day, do everything each day with confidence and with purpose.

5. Rome wasn’t built in a day!
It means you see someone doing something really quickly and maybe not carefully, and you want them to take their time and do a good job – you can’t learn English in a week and/or in a month, you need to take time because you’re building something of great beauty and quality: your ability to speak English.

6. Measure twice, cut once!
It means you should be careful before you do something, so you reduce the chance that you’ll make a mistake – in English learning, when you’re doing a test or when your speaking or writing is being evaluated, make sure that you think before you speak or write.

7. Good things come to those who wait
If you are patient, if you work hard at something for a long time, eventually you will succeed.

© 2024, Learn English with Bob the Canadian. All rights reserved.

Improving English Learning

5 THINGS YOU CAN DO TODAY

TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH LEARNING

BOB THE CANADIAN
YouTube Channel
Jan. 9, 2024

In this English lesson, Bob will teach us 5 things that we can start doing today that will help improve our English learning. We might be surprised at how easy it can be to make our learning go a bit better. These suggestions are quite straightforward, and Bob guarantees we will find them helpful. 😉

⌛ Remember: Always watch the video three times. Twice today with English subtitles on, and once tomorrow with the English subtitles off. This will reinforce the English we have learned!

EXPRESSIONS FROM THE VIDEO

1. GET A JOURNAL
Use a journal (a yearbook) to write down the new words that you learn day by day, to practice some writing each day, to make little drawings (as a “picture dictionary” to help you improve your vocabulary).

2. TELL SOMEONE THAT YOU’RE LEARNING ENGLISH
If you tell someone, that person is going to ask you how your learning is going every once in a while, he/she will hold you accountable a little bit every once in a while. In English, when we say someone holds you accountable, it means they ask you about your progress on something you’re doing.

3. SET REMINDERS
Use the bell notification (on English YouTube channels, for example), use something like Duolingo or another app to remind you haven’t practiced English for the last few days. You can also use something simple like a calendar. If you just learn English whenever you feel like it, if you don’t have reminders or external things telling you to study, you might forget to do it.

4. GET INVOLVED WITH AN ENGLISH SPEAKING COMMUNITY ONLINE
Be active in that community: find a computer game that you can play where you can interact with other English speaking players (via text or voice chat); find an English teacher on YouTube who does live lessons (you can interact – in English, of course – with other learners in the chat while you’re listening to the lesson, or simply you can leave a comment below the video).

5. SET CHALLENGES FOR YOURSELF
Create little goals that you need to reach each day, each week, or each month (for example, learning the 500 most common English words this month; speaking in the past tense for five minutes straight today; learning ten new adjectives to describe people and using them in written sentences before the end of the day). Creating little challenges for yourself just helps you progress because you get a little bit excitement every time you finish one of your challenges – when you reach a goal, you’ll feel happy that you accomplished that goal.

© 2024, Learn English with Bob the Canadian. All rights reserved.

Imperatives (Encouraging People)

ENGLISH IMPERATIVES: BE KIND! BE NICE!

BOB THE CANADIAN
YouTube Channel
Dec. 19, 2023

In this English lesson, Bob will help us learn some imperative phrases that we can use around the Holiday season (Christmas time). He encourages us to be kind, be nice, be thoughtful, be considerate, be helpful, and to be good to ourselves! 😉

⌛ Remember: Always watch the video three times. Twice today with English subtitles on, and once tomorrow with the English subtitles off. This will reinforce the English we have learned!

IMPERATIVE: a verb form used to give commands, suggestions, or directions with no noun/subject.

EXPRESSIONS FROM THE VIDEO

• BE KIND! / BE NICE! = For some people, the period of festive greetings can also be a sad time, because they remember their loved ones who have passed away, and others don’t have people to spend time with.
• BE HELPFUL! = If you see someone that needs help, please help them. When you’re helpful, it just makes people happier.
• BE CONSIDERATE! = When you’re considerate, it means you try to think about what someone else’s life is like when you’re talking to them or when you’re doing things with them. It means you think about another person’s life when you are talking to them.
• BE GOOD TO YOURSELF! = It’s important to take care of yourself (go for a walk, spend time with friends, take a break from work every once in a while).
• BE THOUGHTFUL! = It’s very similar to the imperative “be considerate”. It means that think before you say things, try to think about other people before you do/say things. Sometimes it’s easy to be critical of other people, it’s easy to say negative things (about them), it’s easy to judge people for what they do, but try to be a little bit more thoughtful.

© 2024, Learn English with Bob the Canadian. All rights reserved.

ESL WORKSHEET - Health and Office Life

LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS

SICK LEAVE

LinguaHouse
Jan. 15, 2024

Level: Intermediate (B1-B2)
Type of English: Business English
Tags: Health and Well-being; Human Resources (HR); Business People; Companies and Jobs; Office Life; Health and Illness; 16-18 Years Old; 18+ Years Old; Article Based
Publication date: 01/15/2024

This lesson looks at the topic of sick leave. Students will read an article about the subject from a manager’s point of view and listen to three people talking about it. Exercises focus on reading and listening skills, related vocabulary and offer students the opportunity to discuss questions on the topic (by Joe Wilson).

• CLICK HERE to download the student’s worksheet in American English.
• CLICK HERE to download the teacher’s lesson plan in American English.
• CLICK HERE to download the student’s worksheet in British English.
• CLICK HERE to download the teacher’s lesson plan in British English.
• CLICK HERE to download/listen to the audios (Am/Br English).

AUDIO TRANSCRIPT

Speaker 1: I lied to my boss about being sick once. I’d been to the beach over the weekend and accidentally fell asleep in the sun. Well, I was really badly sunburned all over my face and arms. It was horrible and I was really embarrassed. My skin was coming off and I looked like something out of a horror film. So, I told my boss I had a fever and took the week off. It wasn’t a fun week. I had to isolate myself so that no one from work saw me, so I was just at home and pretty bored all week. Then, when I got back to work, I had to work late every night for about two weeks to catch up with what I missed. But by the time I got back to work, my skin was pretty much back to normal again.
Speaker 2: So, I don’t really want to go into too much detail about what happened, but let’s just say that I got a nasty rash in a private area of my body. I could still work, but I called in sick and said I had food poisoning because I needed to go and see a specialist which took me a few hours to go and do. So, I couldn’t say I was just going for a check-up to my doctor, because it wouldn’t take that long. I felt a bit guilty about lying to my boss because we have a good relationship, but there’s no way I could have told her the truth. The worse thing about being back in the office is that I had this antibiotic cream that I had to keep putting on. I was going to the bathroom all the time and I could tell everyone thought that I was still affected by the food poisoning. I felt pretty stupid about it.
Speaker 3: I’m really into sports so, honestly, I never really get sick and I wouldn’t pretend to be sick because I’m one of those people who hates sitting still. I get bored really quickly and I like to be doing things. I’d hate to sit at home watching TV. I worked with this lady once though and she told our manager and a few of us on the team that she was having back problems and so every week, she needed to go and have a massage by a health professional. So, she left early every Wednesday for weeks and it just became normal. Anyway, one Wednesday, I was out seeing a customer and came back late and stopped in town to get some lunch. I happen to see this lady walk into a bar. There was no massage, she was just going to get drinks with her friends. I didn’t say anything because it’s not my business. But I did ask her every Thursday if she enjoyed her massage just to watch her lie.

Adapted from: https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/business-english/sick-leave. Accessed on January 23, 2024. © 2008–2024 LinguaHouse.com. All rights reserved.