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No episódio dessa semana, vamos falar brevemente sobre as diferenças culturais, comparando o Brasil e os Estados Unidos! Sei que as diferenças são muitas, mas escolhi as mais marcantes. Vamos descobrir juntos?
E não esqueça de me mandar uma mensagem me contando suas impressões sobre o podcast e mandando sugestões de temas para os próximos.

Português Brasileiro

#6 – Diferenças culturais Brasil x Estados Unidos

How to manage group conversations

To show you are not familiar with a topic

What’s (______)? Sorry, I don’t know what that is.
Can I get you to explain (_______) a bit more? I’m afraid I’m a bit confused.

You can link to a topic that is familiar to you

This reminds me of …
On the topic of (______), have you heard of (_______)?
That’s interesting. I’ve also heard that ….

Remember to involve quieter members of the group

Was it the same for you?
What about you?
What do you think? Do you agree?
I really want to hear what (_____) thinks about this. 

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Everyday English with Teacher Alyse

Managing group conversations

Presentación personal de una persona. Con oraciones básicas y sencillas en árabe moderno estándar. 

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Presentación 2

Idioms are used a lot in most of the languages and English is no exception! Listen to this podcast episode for some of the most common idioms. Don' forget to book your lesson with me right away on my profile! ^^

All About English and How You Learn It!

Some of the Most Common Idioms in English

Listen and repeat then sing along.
The cub can hum in the tub. 

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Phonics Short Vowels

Phonics Short ub um 

Velar consonants are sounds you make with the back of your tongue touching the soft palate, also called the velum. It's the fleshy bit at the back of the roof of your mouth, near your uvula (the little dangly thing).

Production:
Raise the back of your tongue up to touch the velum. Airflow is blocked completely for a moment.

Examples in English:
/k/: This is the voiceless velar plosive, the sound at the beginning of "kit" or "cat."
/g/: This is the voiced velar plosive, the sound at the beginning of "game" or the "g" in "going."
/ŋ/: This is the velar nasal, the sound at the end of "sing" or "long." Notice how air can flow out your nose while making this sound.

Other interesting facts:
The sound /k/ is actually one of the most common consonant sound across all human languages! Velar consonants can be influenced by nearby vowels. They might move slightly forward in the mouth (called "fronting") before front vowels like /

i:/ or /ɪ/ or move back (called "retraction") before back vowels like /u/ or /ʊ/.

Some practice tongue twisters:
Kate keeps giving up in the morning
My gran’s going to see the king in the Congo
Can a king conquer a sinking kangaroo
Kick the giggling goblins guarding the gold
Kevin clung to the clinging kangaroo

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Target: British Accent 

Velar Consonants 

・導入部　雨の季節「梅雨(つゆ)について」
・東北地方でよく使われる表現方法、名詞の後ろに「こ」をつける。
・お茶⇒「お茶っこ」、飴（あめ）⇒「あめっこ」、いぬ⇒「いぬっこ」、棒（ぼう）⇒「ぼっこ」
・スタンダードな日本語にもいくつか同じような表現がある
・まとめ

Nihongo tokidoki Inaka hougen with Megumi Na

What is「おちゃっこ」? Interesting! We add the word"こ"after the noun in Tohoku dialect.

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The Crow & the Pitcher
In a spell of dry weather, when the Birds could find very little to drink, a thirsty Crow found a pitcher with a little water in it. But the pitcher was high and had a narrow neck, and no matter how he tried, the Crow could not reach the water. The poor thing felt as if he must die of thirst.

Then an idea came to him. Picking up some small pebbles, he dropped them into the pitcher one by one. With each pebble the water rose a little higher until at last it was near enough so he could drink.

In a pinch a good use of our wits may help us out.

