terça-feira, 4 de agosto de 2009

Friday Class - Phrasal Verbs -


Hello,hello,hello!and welcome to 'privateenglishportal.com". My name is Steve Ford and you've come to Peppy 27, Steve in Brazil...the conclusion.
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Last time on Steve in Brazil.
I went on with my run when suddenly I saw in front of me a strange commotion. What could this commotion be? This carnivalesque commotion ! with coloured tents and coloured balloons and loads of people with live music and dancing...and costumes ...and fruit? fruit? What was fruit doing in the middle of all of this? ...jugglers and clowns . What were they doing here too? I needed to find out so I decided to phone my friend Amanda.
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So, I needed to find a public telephone, a payphone !

*** Excuse me!
## Sim!
## Is there something wrong ,dear?
*** No actually, Do you speak English?
## Of course , I do.
*** Oh wonderful!
## Are you American?
*** No, I'm not!
## English?
*** No , I'm not! I'm Canadian!
## Oh , what a coincidence ! I just came back from Ottawa.
*** Oh, Is that right?
## Yeah, I spent ten days there. I love your country , you know.
*** Well thank you so much! I love your country too!
## Oh, thank you!
*** Such a beautiful place!
## Thank you!
*** Yeah! Well anyways , I was wondering if you could tell me where I could find a phone booth.
## A phone booth! Yeah! "orelhão".
*** Wait,wait,wait! "ore","ore" what?
## Orelhão
*** o-re-lee-yao ! Actually, could you type that into my eletronic dictionary ?
## Of Course I can ! Can you hold that for me please?
*** Oh Yeah, sure!
## Look . "Orelhão" , There you go.
*** Orelhão. just let me hit "translate" ...orelhão = big ear...actually my ears are kind of small !!!
## Oh no, I'm not talking about your ears dear!
*** No?
## No! It is because it is ...um the telephone is inside of something that resembles a big ear . That's why!
*** Oh, I see!
## Let's see if I can find one here to show you. Oh , I know there is ...Oh , there, there , there ...can you see that blue thing there?
*** Oh, that big blue thing is a big ear!
## Yeah, and there is a telephone inside !
*** Right , so If I get inside that big ear , I can phone someone from my ear and I can phone somebody.
## Exactly , it's not that complicated. You will see...but Do you have telephone tokens?
*** Yes, Thank you very much for asking... I've already bought some.
## That's great then! You won't have any trouble.
*** Ok , well that's great! Thank you so much then.
## You're very welcome! I have to go , but I hope you enjoy your stay here in Rio.
*** Ok , thank you so much!
## Ok , see you later! Tchau,tchau..bye,bye!
*** Bye, tchau,tchau!
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