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| Articles about Collocations |
| | Expert em Collocations! | | 2007-04-26 12:00:00 | | No meu livro “Inglês na Ponta da Língua: método inovador para melhorar o seu vocabulário” (Editora Elsevier/Campus) falo sobre combinações de palavras. Estas combinações são na verdade o que os especialistas na área chamam de collocations.No livro, resumo isto dizendo que combinações de palavras (collocations) “refere-se ao fato de como uma palavra freqüentemente se combinar com outra”. Um exemplo – dos vários que têm no livro – é “make the bed” (arrumar a cama, fazer a cama). Em inglês, “make” combina com “bed”; ou seja, não se diz em inglês – pelo menos não é comum dizer – “do the bed”. Logo, “do” não combina com “bed”.O tema parece complicado; porém, após ler as páginas do livro dedicado a isto e observar os exemplos você acaba vendo como aprender vocabulário em inglês fica muito mais interessante, fácil e divertido! Você simplesmente passa a entender o motivo pelo qual dizemos “redondamente enganado”, e não ... | | By: English Experts :: English Tips | | |
| | Expressões e Collocations com a palavra Talk - Parte III | | 2007-04-11 01:00:00 | | In my most recent posts I have been talking about different kinds of talk we engage in. There are some verbal expressions involving the word talk and an adjective or adverb.To sweet talk someone is to flatter them and say nice things in order to manipulate them in some way. When a person is in the wrong and gets caught, he may try to sweet talk his way out of the negative consequences. “Don’t try to sweet talk me” is a standard response when the person who was wronged does not want to be charmed into forgetting about his or her injury. A man may try to sweet talk a woman (feed her sentimental or flattering pick-up lines) to get a date.Fast talking is talking slick, using smooth lines to persuade or convince or mislead or get (obtain) something. Salesmen are accused of fast talking potential customers to boost sales. Usage: "He tried to fast talk me into making a deal that I didn’t want because it was not in my best interest."Baby talk is gaa, gaa, goo, goo or speech that imitat... | | By: English Experts :: English Tips | | |
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| Expressões e Collocations com a palavra Talk - Parte II | | 2007-04-03 12:00:00 | | Last week I wrote about the word talk. Here are some more collocations that I hope you may like.COMMON EXPRESSIONSThere is small talk, the mundane chit chat that people engage in at cocktail parties to break the ice. Topics for small talk include the weather, sports, hobbies, and news events of general interest.Small talk is to be differentiated from shop talk, discussing your work with friends outside of work hours.The infamous pillow talk, intimate talk between the sheets (among lovers) is the stuff espionage movies are made of, and it received national attention when it was feared that the presidential pillow talk would create national security leaks (breaches).The coach of a sports team gives his squad a pep talk to motivate them. Parents and teachers often give pep talks to their charges to lift their spirits when they are down and they need some extra encouragement.WHEN TO USE THE DEFINITE ARTICLE THE AND THE INDEFINITE ARTICLE AIf you have the talk, as opposed to have a talk (co... | | By: English Experts :: English Tips | | |
| | Expressões e Collocations com a palavra Talk - Parte I | | 2007-03-28 14:40:00 | | Oi pessoal, esta semana estou apresentando os novos colaboradores do blog English Experts, hoje é o dia de vocês conhecerem Mary Ziller, ela é Americana e obviamente é uma Native English Speaker. Os textos da Mary serão em totalmente em Inglês, como não poderia deixar de ser. Segue abaixo o primeiro post. Mary, welcome to English Experts.I was inspired by this article “Priceless: falar Inglês é algo que não tem preço”. In English we have several idiomatic collocations of the word talk. Talk can be a noun or a verb.- If you give a talk, you are giving a speech or a lecture in an academic setting. It may be a colloquium talk (a specialized seminar lecture) or a pre-talk (a presentation by a graduate student to a more general area which serves as a prerequisite to the topic covered in the colloquium talk).- If you have a talk, you are having a meaningful, serious conversation.- Your ears should perk up if your boy- or girl- friend, parents, teacher or boss says “We have t... | | By: English Experts :: English Tips | | |
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