Can you and your students explain why these are funny?
SOUNDS A BIT FISHY
Where do shellfish go to borrow money? To the prawn broker.
Where do fish wash? In a river basin.
Why did the whale cross the road? To get to the other tide
Where do little fishes go…
AIRHEAD IDIOTA, BOBO
Some airhead put sugar in the saltpot. Algum idiota colocou açúcar no saleiro.Alguém que tem apenas ar (air) na cabeça (head), sem cérebro nenhum, só pode ser um idiota
JERKIDIOTA, BABACA, BOCÓ
You stupid jerk! You ruined everything!Seu idiota!
JS: Could you please tell us first a little bit about your background and why and when you came to Brazil and decided to settle here?
NL: After graduating from the University of Minnesota in Spanish and French Education, I started an MS in TESOL, but interrupted it to…
Writing the review of a book written by Jane Revell is not an easy task. For one thing, she is one of the most respected and resourceful authors of our time. Besides, her ability to innovate and present us with so much relevant information is simply amazing. In her latest…
A Working Model of Critical Thinking in ELT
“This book focuses on the role of critical thinking in the English language classroom, showing how it can be used to achieve a greater understanding of individual words and sentences, of longer pieces of discourse, of ideas…
JS: Could you please tell us first a little bit about your background and why and when you went to live in the United States?
LO: I’m currently Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the University of Miami in Florida. In 2006, I…
JS: First of all, John, I would like to thank you on behalf of New Routes and all our readers for having been a regular and important contributor to the magazine since 1999 (Issue numbers 7, 31, 34, 51, 54 and now 63). Your articles covered a very wide range of topics.
JS: In your years of experience as a teacher, teacher educator and writer, how have your beliefs regarding teaching and learning changed? Has any paradigm shifted along the way?
JH: I think my belief (at the beginning) that everything was reducible to fairly…
SLEAZEBAGPESSOA DESONESTA, IMORAL, INESCRUPULOSA; SAFADO, SACANA
He’s a real sleazebag.Ele é muito safado.
Sleazebag vem da palavra sleazy, que significa sujo, desonesto, imoral. Também se diz sleazeball ou sleaze.
A PAIN IN THE ASS/BUTT (US)UM PÉ NO…
