Thursday, November 5

L 0017: Slangs & Expressions





Vocabulary! Hoje você aprenderá várias expressions e slangs (gírias). Nesta primeira atividade, teste se você já conhece alguma delas. Escolha uma das opções em choose e depois clique em check para ver a resposta correta.




01. ace
He's an ace reporter.
    
 
02. action
Do you know where the action is in this town?
      
 
03. airhead
My sister's boyfriend is a real airhead.
      
 
04. all wet 
Your ideas about politics are all wet.
      
 
05. antifreeze 
I really need some antifreeze in me on cold days like this.
      
 
06. armpit 
This town is really an armpit. 
      
 
07. awesome 
What an awesome sunset. 
      
 
08. barf 
He barfed all over the seat of the airplane. 
      
 
09. beat 
After working all day I am really beat. 
      
 
10. beemer 
He just bought a new beemer to drive to work in. 
      
 
11. bench 
He was benched during the basketball playoffs. 
      
 
12. bent 
It's OK. Don't get so bent. 
      
 
13. bent out of shape 
Don't get so bent out of shape.
      
 
14. big gun 
The president brought two big guns to the meeting. 
      
 
15. big mouth 
Shut up! You really have a big mouth. 
      
 
16. big stink 
The citizens made a big stink about the new nuclear power station.
      
 
17. blade 
He carried a ten inch blade with him.
      
 
18. blimp 
I always seem to have a blimp sitting next to me when I travel. 
      
 
19. bomb 
The movie was a bomb. 
      

20. bonkers 
I think I am going bonkers.
      

21. boo-boo
If you make another boo-boo like that, you won't have a job.
      

22. booze 
I promised to bring two bottles of booze to the party.
      
 
23. bread 
I need some bread to pay the rental. 
      
 
24. break 
A lucky break helped him get the job.
      
 
25. break it up 
Break it up, or I will call the police. 
      
 
26. bring-down 
The news of the airplane crash was a bring-down.
      
 
27. buck 
Do you have a buck I can borrow?
      
 
28. bust 
The whole idea was a bust. 
      
 
29. call 
The weatherman made a good call about when the storm would come. 
      
 
30. catch some rays 
I'm going to lie on the beach and catch some rays. 
      


Na atividade abaixo tente entender o significado das slangs ou expressions e complete as frases. Depois clique em check para ver a resposta certa.





catch some Z's = get some sleep
cheesy = cheap / bad quality
chicken = coward
chow down = eat a lot
clunker = old car
cold fish = dull
cool = good
cool down = calm down
cop = policeman
come up for air = take a break


01. The showed me his badge.
      


02. I need to before I go on my trip. I'm really tired. 
       


03. This is a really place to work.Everybody is so nice. 
         


04. That is really a outfit. Where did she buy it? Bad taste! 
    


05. I can't go on a date in that .I need to make a good impression. 
 


06. Don't be a .I can't believe you are afraid of cockroaches.
  


07. My date for the dance was a
            


08. He has to or he will die from exhaustion.
            


09. I need to find a place to  .I'm starving.
            


10. Things should in a day or two. 
            





i-Pocket Pod! Uma boa forma para aprender expressions e slangs é ouvindo muita música, especialmente rap e similiares; e ver muito filme, pois ambos trazem novidades da língua falada. Abaixo você ouvirá e lerá a letra da música "It's like that", Mariah Carey. Em vermelho você terá algumas explicações  para entender melhor (em Inglês). 








[Mariah Carey:]
I came to have a party
Open off the Bacardi (Open up the bottle of Bacardi rum)
Feeling so hot tamale (I'm feeling super sexy)
Boy, I know you watchin me
So what's it gonna be? (So what is it going to be?)
Purple taking me higher (Strong marijuana is taking me higher)
I'm lifted and I like it (I'm feeling high and I like it)
Boy, you got me inspired (Boy, you make me feel inspired)
Baby, come and get it
If you're really feelin me (If you're really interested in me)

Cuz it's my night (Because it's my night)
No stress, no fights
I'm leavin it all behind (I'm leaving all those negative things behind)
No tears, no time to cry
Just makin the most of life (I'm just enjoying my life as much as possible)

Everybody is livin' it up (uh) (Everybody is having a great time)
All the fellas keep lookin' at us (cuz) (All the men keep looking at us because)
Me and my girls on the floor like what
(Me and my girlfriends are on the dance floor having a great time)
While the DJ keeps on spinnin the cut
(While the DJ keeps on playing the music)
It's like that y'all (that y'all), that y'all (that y'all) (That's how it is)
It's like that, that, that, that, I like that y'all (that y'all)
 (That's how it is, I like that)
It's like that y'all (that y'all), that y'all (that y'all)
It's like that, that, that, that, I like that y'all (that y'all)

You like this and you know it
Caution, it's so explosive (Be careful, the situation is so explosive)
Them chickens is ash and I'm lotion
(Those other women are nothing compared to super smooth and sexy me)
Baby, come and get it
Let me give you what you need
It's a special occasion
Mimi's emancipation (Mariah Carey is free)
A cause for celebration (It's a reason for celebration)
I ain't gonna let nobody's drama bother me
(I am not going to let anyone else's personal problems bother me)

Cuz it's my night (Because it's my night)
No stress, no fights
I'm leavin it all behind (I'm leaving all those negative things behind)
No tears, no time to cry
Just makin the most of life (I'm just enjoying my life as much as possible)


Everybody is livin it up (uh) (Everybody is having a great time)
All the fellas keep lookin' at us (cuz) (All the men keep looking at us because)
Me and my girls on the floor like what
(Me and my girlfriends are on the dance floor having a great time)
While the DJ keeps on spinnin the cut
(While the DJ keeps on playing the music)
It's like that y'all (that y'all), that y'all (that y'all) (That's how it is)
It's like that, that, that, that, I like that y'all (that y'all)
 (That's how it is, I like that)
It's like that y'all (that y'all), that y'all (that y'all)
It's like that, that, that, that, I like that y'all (that y'all)

Cuz it's my night (Because it's my night)
No stress, no fights
I'm leavin it all behind (I'm leaving all those negative things behind)
No tears, no time to cry
Just makin the most of life (I'm just enjoying my life as much as possible)


Everybody is livin it up (uh) (Everybody is having a great time)
All the fellas keep lookin' at us (cuz) (All the men keep looking at us because)
Me and my girls on the floor like what
(Me and my girlfriends are on the dance floor having a great time)
While the DJ keeps on spinnin the cut
(While the DJ keeps on playing the music)
It's like that y'all (that y'all), that y'all (that y'all) (That's how it is)
It's like that, that, that, that, I like that y'all (that y'all)
 (That's how it is, I like that)
It's like that y'all (that y'all), that y'all (that y'all)
It's like that, that, that, that, I like that y'all (that y'all)

[Fatman Scoop:]
Let's Go Now (what), let's go now (what)
Here we go now (what), here we go now (what)
Let's Go Now (what), let's go now (what)
Here we go now (what), here we go now (what)

[Fatman Scoop and Mariah:]
Let's Go Now (what), let's go now (what)
Here we go now (what), here we go now (what)
Let's Go Now (what), let's go now (what)

Here we go now (what), here we go now (what)





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