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Top Notch Fundamentals B: Unit 12

Click on the picture to learn more vocabulary. The topic?? Physical descriptions, of course :)

Some x Any

Click HERE to check out a very nice post on Tecla Sap Blog about SOME and ANY.

Enjoy, folks!

GABARITOS

Hello, guys!

Aqui estão os gabaritos. Clique na pasta abaixo. Escolha a pasta correspondente ao seu nível. Baixe o gabarito para conferir os exercícios do seu livro de gramática. Enjoy!

Dica de Site

Parece ser um site bem bacana. Ainda não tive chance de testar, mas recebi vários comentários positivos de alunos.

A premissa é simples: você se cadastra gratuitamente, aprende o idioma que escolher e em troca, ajuda alguém a praticar o português :)

Try it out and let me know what you think.

Top Notch 2: Text

We all use them when we send text messages; now they have been included in the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). They are the online abbreviations OMG, “oh my God”; LOL, “laughing out loud”; FYI, “for your information; and IMHO, “in my humble opinion”. The OED calls them “initialisms” because they are made up of initials. Young people know and use thousands of these shortcuts on social media sites like Twitter and when sending SMS texts. They are useful when there is a limit on the number of characters used in a message. An OED editor, Graeme Diamond, believes there’s more to initialisms than simply saving space in messages. He thinks young people use them to show irony.
Mr Diamond, who is responsible for allowing new words into the OED, said one of the initialisms, “OMG” was not so new as it was included in a letter written in 1917. New entries in the OED include “ego surfing” – the practice of searching your own name on the Internet, and the “five-second rule,” that "allows for the eating of a delicious morsel that has fallen to the floor, provided that it is retrieved within the specified period of time". Lexicographers also decided that the term “muffin top” deserved an entry. This is defined as "a protuberance of flesh above the waistband of a tight pair of trousers”. It’s also known as “spare tyre” or “love handle”. The dictionary has also included the heart symbol <3 meaning "love".

Source: breakingnewsenglish.com

SHOULD x OUGHT TO x HAD BETTER

SHOULD, OUGHT TO, HAD BETTER Expressing Advice. (Author-Bouabdellah), by Bouabdellah
Find this and other modals exercises in English Exercises .org

Future: Will x Going to

Explanation:
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/future_comparison.htm

Exercise 1:
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/will_going_to_future.htm

Exercise 2:
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3135

Enjoy!

Prepositions : AT, ON, IN.

Click on the picture to learn more about prepositions (at, in, on).

Are you ready for a brand new term?