Seabra Idiomas - English for executives and adult students

TOM HANKS MEETS THE QUEEN A. Develop your vocabulary. BEFORE LISTENING to Tom Hanks interview, do the exercise below. Desenvolva o seu vocabulário. ANTES DE OUVIR a entrevista com Tom Hanks, faça o exercício abaixo. 1. If they know the cause of the problem, they might be able to ___________ how to prevent it happening again. a) figure it out b) find out c) puzzle out 2. Virginia's state government seemed unable to find anyone to ___________ who has not either applied boot polish to his face while at college or been accused of sexual assault. a) Run out of b) Bring out the place c) Run the place 3. T.Hanks was talking about how he was dressed and said: That´s not a rental, by the way . “By The Way” is used to … a) introduce a new subject to be considered or to give further information. b) change the topic completely, or when we want to bring back the original subject after being interrupted. c) when we talk about the route, dire...

ON A BUDGET? HERE'S HOW TO SAVE MONEY ON YOUR GROCERIES By Kathryn Vasel , CNN Business Updated 1859 GMT (0259 HKT) January 28, 2021 Article source:  https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/28/success/save-money-on-groceries-feseries/index.html Food tends to eat up a healthy portion of our budget. We often don't consider how much we're spending at the supermarket because food is a necessity. But many of us are spending more than we have to. "I call the food budget the silent killer of budgets," said Kumiko Love, owner of personal finance website The Budget Mom. If you're looking to make cuts to your food spending, Love recommends doing it in baby steps. "Make small incremental steps. Don't go from $1,000 to $400 -- that's a big change," she said. "Do it in $75 increments. If you stick to it, then drop it again by $75. Over time, you decrease it enough to a realistic amount you can stick to." But where do they savings come from? Here are som...

MOST COMMON RECYCLING MISTAKES A.   Listen to this audio from CNN USA ( https://youtu.be/zKA_3otwWUk ) and answer the questions below: 1. Why paper coffee cups are bad for the environment? 2. What is wish-cycling? 3. What is the Brazilian Portuguese word for "Bales"? a. Fiança b. Fardo c. Papel B.   Listen again, tick the correct sentences and correct the false ones: 1.   Dirty diapers, coffee cups, plastic bags, grease pizza boxes are recyclable and recycling centers sells them to the companies that make new products out of those materials. 2.   Pizza boxes can't be recycled if they are soiled with grease or food residue. 3.   All kinds of plastic are accepted at all recycling centers. 4.   Styrofoam isn´t accepted at all recycling center. C.   Read the article below and fill in the gaps with the following prepositions:     TO FOR OF   D.   Fill in the blanks 1 to 10 with the follo...