I'm so tired, I haven't slept a wink...

The Super Teacher is taking a few days off.

I'll probably be back on January 10th.

All the best!

XOXO

It's raining again, oh no!

Someone invites you to do something, you can't go, but would like to do it some other time. What can you say?

You can say: I'll take a rain check on that one.

Muitas expressões tem origens obscuras, mas a dessa é bem simples, até.

Antigamente, quando chovia, devido às condições dos gramados, os jogos (se não me engano de baseball) eram cancelados, mas quem havia pago a entrada ganhava um vale para assistir ao jogo quando fosse possível, ou seja, they took a rain check!

Anything you want, you got it!

To run an errand: sair para fazer algo rápido, como compras ou pagar contas.

I don't care if Monday's blue...

This is a very simple hint (dica) that I hope helps.

If you get confused with Tuesday and Thursday (for speakers of Portuguese that happens quite often) remember this: Tuesday is the SECOND day of the week, it's day number TWO, so "2sday".

Everybody in the whole cell block was dancing to the jailhouse rock!

It's just the first page of a story, but Scott C is so cool you just gotta check it!

When you close your eyes and go to sleep...

REM

Rapid Eye Movement, or Movimento Rápido do Olho.

É um dos estágios do sono, aquele em que os sonhos acontecem. Quer entender o porquê disso? Peça para alguém, de olhos fechados, movimentar os olhos pra esquerda e pra direita.

You could try it yourself, but I'm not so sure that'd work. ;-)

My friend's got a girlfriend and he hates that bitch...

Job vs Work

Muitos confundem as duas palavras, so let me see if I can help.

Job, normalmente, é emprego.
I have a job.
Why don't you get a job?

Work, normalmente, é trabalho.
We have work to do.
Where does she work?

Pode ajudar se pensarmos que, mesmo quem tem um job pode passar o dia sem work.

Two hearts beating in just one mind...

Present.

Como tu pronunciou a palavra acima? /présent/ ou /prisênt/?

And which one is correct?

Well, that depends.

If we're talking about the noun (substantivo) the correct pronunciation is /présent/, but if we mean the verb, surprise, surprise, the correct/prisênt/.

 The same goes for many words such as record (/récord/ and /ricórd/) or export (/éxport/ or /expórt/).
The Super Teacher, helping you tame (domar) the pronunciation monster!

Roxane, you don't have to wear that dress tonight!

Serve!

Sabe quando a gente precisa de algo mas não acha, daí encontramos algo que pode substituir aquilo?

É deste tipo de "servir" que tô falando.

And the expression is "will do".

THere's no need for you to say you're sorry, godbye...

Hi!

Did you know you can read Turma da Mônica in English?

All you got to do is click HERE!

And here is a sample of what you'll find there:

You know my name, look up the number!

Ramones!

Everyone in the band was a fan of The Beatles (well, who isn't?) and they'd heard a story that Paul McCartney, whenever he checked in a hotel, would say his name was Paul Ramone, so the punks decided to adopt this last name as theirs.

There we go, nice and simple, right?

"Never again" is what you swore the time before!

Frequency Adverbs

Always, often, never, usually... no problem there, I guess.

But there's something that might be good to know, and that's how important the verb BE is.

Yeah, the infamous to be. Who'd ever have thought of that?

Frequency adverbs are usually "more important than the verb", and by that I mean they should be placed before the verb:

I usually read something to sleep.

I never walk my dog, 'cause I don't have one.

They always try, but never win.

But when you have the big cheese (chefão) BE around, make sure it goes first:

I am usually listening to music.

She is always trying to be nice.

Click HERE for a simple exercise.

This is the end, beautiful friend

TH

Muitas pessoas tem dificuldade de pronunciar palavras com TH.

Bom,talvez essas dicas ajudem.

Primeiro de tudo: existem duas pronúncias, o famoso "dã" e o não tão conhecido "di" (procure por TH/TH nesta lista), e as pronúncias são diferentes por uma questão de praticidade linguística.

Lembra da regra para saber se o artigo que antecede a palavra é A ou AN? Ela vale aqui também.

You pronounce /dã/ before consonant sounds and /di/ before vowel sounds.

Listen to the first verse (1:18) of this The Doors song for the correct pronunciation of the end: 

E para brasileiros, a pronúncia correta não é fácil de fazer, mas é possível. Imaginem o Lula falando palavras como sopa, sapo, salada, semente. Esse S "de cobra" é a maneira correta de pronunciar palvras como think, through ou thrust.

Agora, se imaginarmos o Lula falando do mesmo jeito palavras em que o s como gostosa tem som de z  (raposa, lustroso, caseira) teremos a pronuncia correta para palavras como there, this, although.

If you have any questions, please, watch this video class with the awesome Dave Sconda:

Money is the root of all evil!

In the US, coins have nicknames.

Of course you can call them one cent, 5 cents, 10 cents, 25 cents and everybody's going to know what you mean but... e se te perguntam Got a dime?

Pois é, então, para não ficar boiando na hora de pegar as moedas, e para não te lograrem, vamos dar nomes aos bois.

1 cent: penny

5 cents: nickel

10 cents: dime

25 cents: quarter

50 cent (as far as I know this one doesn't have a nickname)

There's currently no US$1.00 being used coin in the USA, but there used to be.

They're called silver dollars, and some people even collect them.