Aula 21 de março

Pronúncia diferente entre as palavras:

leap – lip

sit – seat

hit – heat

pick – peak

Vocabulário do texto sobre a Líbia

to enforce – fazer uma lei ou regra ser cumprida

enforcement – cumprimento da lei

United Nations-mandated cease-fire – cessar-fogo ordenado pelas N.U.

it is not clear – não está claro / it was not clear – não estava claro

you are not seeing – você não está vendo / you were not seeing – você não estava vendo

she heard – she did not hear

they receive (eles recebem) – they received (eles receberam)

(neg. no presente) They do not receive (eles não recebem)

(neg. no passado) They did not receive (eles não receberam)

(interrogativa no passado) Did they receive?

20 Libyan air and missile defense targets

20 alvos líbios de defesa aérea e de mísseis

West (oeste) – western (do oeste ou ocidental)

East (leste) – eastern (do leste ou oriental)

North (norte) – northern (do norte ou setentrional)

South (sul) – southern (do sul)

missiles and communications facilities (instalações / recursos)

instalações de comunicações e de mísseis

device – dispositivo -

advice (conselho)

highlander

land – terra

early – cedo, prematuro, adiantado - - - - - - - - - - earlier > mais cedo

News of the week

Obama in Brazil

http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mundo/891255-on-the-first-day-of-his-visit-obama-emphasizes-us-brazil-trade-relations.shtml

Explosions in Tripoli

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-03-19/world/libya.civil.war_1_misrata-missiles-fighter-jets?_s=PM:WORLD

Aula – 14 de março

Substantivo noun	Verbo verb	Adjetivo adjective	Advérbio adverb
memory	to speak	basic	basically
unit	to access	hard	properly
system	to load	quick	quickly
hard drive	to use	slow	slowly

Central Processing Unit

Basic Input Output System

Small Picture – imagem pequena

Smaller Picture – imagem menor / menor imagem

The smallest Picture – a menor imagem

This material is needed for finishing the job (nunca “for to finish’”)

Thanks for commenting my text

Atenção! Pronúncia

Orange juice - in a day – needed access

English for Computing

http://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/pdf/elt/catalogue/0-19-457470-9-a.pdf?cc=global&selLanguage=en

Inglês instrumental

http://www.learn-portuguese-now.com/support-files/ingles-instrumental-charlles-nunes.pdf

How Tsunamis Work

http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/tsunami2.htm

by Robert Valdes and Nathan Halabrin

to make – fazer, tornar-se

to make up – constituir, inventar, maquiar (verbo frasal = verbo + preposição)

under (sob) / below (sob) - - - - - - over (sobre) / above (sobre) / on (sobre) / upon (sobre)

pull – puxar - - - - - - push - empurrar

The Birth of a Tsunami

The most common causes of tsunamis are underwater earthquakes. To understand underwater earthquakes, you must first understand plate tectonics. The theory of plate tectonics suggests that the lithosphere, or top layer of the Earth, is made up of a series of huge plates. These plates make up the continents and seafloor. They rest on an underlying viscous layer called the asthenosphere.

Think of a pie cut into eight slices. The pie crust would be the lithosphere and the hot, sticky pie filling underneath would be the asthenosphere. On the Earth, these plates are constantly in motion, moving along each other at a speed of 1 to 2 inches (2.5-5 cm) per year. The movement occurs most dramatically along fault lines (where the pie is cut). These motions are capable of producing earthquakes and volcanism, which, when they occur at the bottom of the ocean, are two possible sources of tsunamis.

When two plates come into contact at a region known as a plate boundary, a heavier plate can slip under a lighter one. This is called subduction. Underwater subduction often leaves enormous "handprints" in the form of deep ocean trenches along the seafloor.

In some cases of subduction, part of the seafloor connected to the lighter plate may "snap up" suddenly due to pressure from the sinking plate. This results in an earthquake. The focus of the earthquake is the point within the Earth where the rupture first occurs, rocks break and the first seismic waves are generated. The epicenter is the point on the seafloor directly above the focus.

When this piece of the plate snaps up and sends tons of rock shooting upward with tremendous force, the energy of that force is transferred to the water. The energy pushes the water upward above normal sea level. This is the birth of a tsunami. The earthquake that generated the December 26, 2004, tsunami in the Indian Ocean was a 9.0 on the Richter scale -- one of the biggest in recorded history.