Seabra Idiomas - English for executives and adult students

A. Discuss these questions with your teacher or colleague. 1. Talk about what you have eaten today/yesterday. 2. What is the most unhealthy food you can think of? How often do you eat that?  3. Do you usually eat unhealthy food? Which is your favorite? How often do you eat that? Where do you get it from? 4. What are some different types of diets you have heard of? Have you ever been on a diet? Which one and why? 5. Do you think your parents/grandparents had better food habits than you do? Why? 6. Do you eat a lot of small portions or a few large portions of food each day? Tell me about your routine.  7. Do you think people from your country usually eat a lot of unhealthy food? What's the most popular junk food? Which one do you prefer? How often do you eat that? 8. What eating habit you have that you'd like to change?  9. Is organic food much healthier than non-organic or they're exactly the same? Do you buy any organic food? Is organic food cheaper or more expensive than...

  Covid-19: Oxford University vaccine is highly effective By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent     The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is currently in the final stages of testing The coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford is highly effective at stopping people developing Covid-19 symptoms, a large trial shows. Interim data suggests 70% protection, but the researchers say the figure may be as high as 90% by tweaking the dose. The results will be seen as a triumph, but come after Pfizer and Moderna vaccines showed 95% protection. However, the Oxford jab is far cheaper, and is easier to store and get to every corner of the world than the other two. So the vaccine will play a significant role in tackling the pandemic, if it is approved for use by regulators. "The announcement today takes us another step closer to the time when we can use vaccines to bring an end to the devastation caused by [the virus]," said the vaccine's architect, Prof Sar...

Stephen Hawking warns  A. Click in the link below, listen to the audio and answer the questions: ⮚⮚⮚ AUDIO LINK:   Stephen Hawking: "Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded" 1. Stephen Hawking had got a new communication system. What was wrong with the previous one? 2. What did he most want to change about the old system? 3. Has that new system made a big change to the way he would? 4. Why didn´t he want his voice to be changed? 5. How long had he been connected to the internet by that time of the interview? 6. Is the internet and modern forms of communications, in general, a purely positive development or there were things about it that worried him? 7. When he watched software engineers and machine learning experts at work, as they had been on this project, how far along the path to artificial intelligence did he think we were? B. Now read the text below and uncover new words. Stephen Hawking warns artificial i...

A. Conversation Questions 👉  Do you have enough free time? 👉  What do you do in your free time? 👉  Do you have free time on Sundays? What do you do? 👉  Do you have much free time during the week (from Mon to Fr)? Why? Why not? 👉  Do you like to watch movies/series? (...like to play tennis, ...) 👉  What was the last movie you watched? 👉  When did you watch it? 👉  What was it about? 👉  Did you like it? 👉  Are you watching any series now? 👉  How long have you been watching it? 👉  Do you watch it every day? 👉  When do you usually watch it? During the week or at the weekend? 👉  What are you going to do next weekend? 👉  What did you do last summer vacation? 👉  How long did you stay there? 👉  Who did you go with? 👉  How did you get there? 👉  Where did you stay? 👉  What did you do last weekend? 👉  Do you have any hobbies? What is it? 👉  How do you like to spend you...

BE HUMBLE and other lessons from the philosophy of water A. In this audio Raymond Tang gives a new abbreviation for H2O (Water = Hydrogen & Oxygen). What are they? What lessons did he learn from that? 1. ____________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. ____________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. ____________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Adjectives, comparatives and superlatives B. Write the missing adjectives, comparatives, and superlatives in the chart below. Be careful with your spelling. Don’t forget “than” and “the”. Study the examples:     ADJECTIVES COMPARATIVE SUPERLATIVE engaged ...