Direct and Indirect Speech

There are two main ways of reporting people’s words, thoughts, beliefs etc.

Direct speech

We can give the exact words that were said.
This kind of reporting is called direct speech.

* She said, ‘What do you want?’
* Peter said, ‘It is not my fault.’
* Jane said, ‘Are you coming with me?’
* He said, ‘I don’t want to talk to you.’
* Monica says, ‘You look beautiful.’
* Mother said, ‘Stop talking.’

Indirect speech

We can report a speaker’s thoughts and words in our own words,
using conjunctions and changing pronouns,
tenses and other words where necessary.
This kind of reporting is called indirect speech.

* She asked what I wanted.
* Peter said that it was not his fault.
* Jane asked me if was going with her?
* He said that he didn’t want to talk to me.
* Monica says that I look beautiful.
* Mother asked her children to stop talking.

How do you make feijoada?

Mark has a Brazilian Neighbour. He asked her how to make feijoada.

Mark: How do you make feijoada?
Brazilian Neighbour: To make a feijoada you need black beans, chorizo…
Mark: That is a kind of sausage, isn’t it?
Brazilian Neighbour: It is. Spanish sausage.
Mark: Uh-huh.
Brazilian Neighbour: You can also get a Portuguese chorizo
Child: Daddy…..!
Brazilian Neighbour: And also you need…you need pork.
Mark: Yeah. Like a piece of pork?
Brazilian Neighbour: A piece of pork. M-hm. And you also need bay leaf.
Mark: Ah!?
Brazilian Neighbour: Put a little bay leaf in there. And you need paprika and you need cumin. And also you need coriander. Coriander..
Mark: Fresh or seeds or …?
Brazilian Neighbour: Fresh. Fresh.
Mark: The leaves?
Brazilian Neighbour: The leaves. Yeah. You put it right in the end.
Mark: Right. OK. Wow!
Brazilian Neighbour: So that is the ingredients. First you need to soak the beans overnight.
Mark: Right.
Brazilian Neighbour: Right. And then…Normally I have a pressure cooker.
Mark: Yeah? So it does it quickly?
Brazilian Neighbour: It does it quickly. Yeah. It only takes about a half an hour.
Mark: It is good to soak them though.
Brazilian Neighbour: Yeah.
Mark: Germinate. Grow a little bit.
Brazilian Neighbour: So..Alright then..You put the beans into the pressure cooker, water, then you put the pork meat and you put also the chorizo in it
Mark: Yep.
Brazilian Neighbour: And in another pan you chop up some onion and garlic and you fry it with olive oil and you put it into the beans …
Mark: Yep.
Brazilian Neighbour: And you cook that for about half an hour.
Mark: Right.
Brazilian: And then.
Mark: All in the pressure cooker?
Brazilian Neighbour: All in the pressure cooker…Yeah…

PHRASAL VERB !

Adventures Growing Up

_________ in the countryside offered us kids an enormous amount of freedom in which to play. The only problem was that we often ________ trouble as we ________ stories that we acted out around town. I can remember one adventure in particular.
One day as we were __________ from school, we ___________with the brilliant idea to pretend that we were pirates ___________ treasure. My best friend Tom said that he _________ an enemy ship in the distance. As if previously rehearsed we all ________r cover.
We _________ a number of rocks to use as ammunition against the enemy vessel while we put together our plan of action. Slowly we __________ the path until we were face to face with the enemy - the postman's truck!
The postman was ___________ a package at Mrs. Brown's house, so we all got into his truck. At that point, we really didn't have any idea of what we were going do. The radio was playing so we ___________ the volume to discuss our plan of action.
Jack was all for switching on the motor and _____________ the vehicle! Of course, we were just children, but the idea of actually taking off with the truck was so exciting.
We all broke out in nervous laughter at the thought of us _____________ the road in the postal Truck. Luckily for us, the postman came running just in the nick of time shouting, "What are you kids up to?" Of course, we all scattered out as quickly as we could down the road, scared out of our wits, ______________leaving behind our things for the mail man.

NOW, FILL THESE PHRASAL VERBS BELOW INTO THE TEXT:

Growing-up coming back made out went along came up driving down ran for picked up leaving behind turned down got into Looking for getting away with made up dropping off

A VERY USEFUL GUIDE!

  DO YOU WANNA AN U.S. PERMANENT  VISA?   READ  IT!

The Brazil Immigration and Relocation Guide has been written to help potential immigrants in the quest to their country of choice.

The Guide would be extremely helpful to:

- People who do not want to spend thousands of dollars in immigration consultation fees

- People who do not mind to hire an immigration lawyer, but want to know what all their visa options are beforehand

- People who have general or academic interest in the subject of immigration to Brazil, all visa categories and procedures

Hi,

My name is Katia Castro, I’m from São Paulo, Brazil and here is why I have decided to write this Guide.

In 1999, I met a foreigner while studying in the USA and after some months of dating and living together we decided to get married. My future husband came to Brazil on Tourist Visa, we had translated and notarized all the necessary legal documentation and got married legally both in church and civil office.

We were extremely happy, life was in front of us, but before making any concrete plans on buying property, starting a business or even finding temporary job, first my husband needed Permanent Residence Visa. The Tourist Visa was to expire soon, so we gathered all the necessary documents as instructed by the Federal Police Department of Immigration and were ready to proceed.

Our research on the Internet showed that since we are legally married my husband has the right to obtain Permanent Residence as part of the Brazilian so called Family Reunion Law. Similar laws are popular in other countries in America and Europe so we were convinced that the process would be fast and easy.

We couldn’t be more WRONG!!

The BIG difference between the laws in Brazil and most of the other countries we researched was that in Brazil you had the RIGHT TO APPLY, but not the RIGHT TO RECEIVE!!

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At that point we decided that we still have another option – hiring an immigration lawyer, paying whatever fees they were going to ask us and having them to deal with the impossible bureaucracy in Brazil at that time.

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According to our immigration lawyers we could avoid most of the problems and even get the visa ourselves if we knew WHAT EXACTLY to do and HOW EXACTLY to do it. We did not.

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PHRASAL VERBS......what is it?

Hi super!
Nestes ultimos dias venho dando algumas aulas de introdução ao estudo de PHRASAL VERBS, e
assim acabei colhecionando um monte de informção e material sobre o assunto:
Pra começo de conversa, legal explicar que  Phrasal verbs são Two-words sentences  - que isso? 
QUANDO 1 VERBO  + 1 PREPOSIÇÃO  juntam-se para criar na maioria das vezes um outro sentido ao verbo original.
Tem alguns até facil de compreender, mas outras construção são por muitas vezes indecifraveis e inexplicaveis.

Ex.:   

LOOK +  INTO  = olhar com atenção e ou Investigar.  - FACINHO NÉ?

GIVE + UP =  desistir; dar um tempo   -  Complicado este?

Aqui vai um texto analisado com alguns Phrasal verbs  bacanas:

MARCUS T. MASSON – THE CAMEL MAN

In February 2010,  Marcus Masson, who was once a high school drama teacher  and adventurer, completed a nineteen-day journey, which involved traveling 350 miles across the Sahara –desert. 

The longest-self-sufficient solo journey in history.

First, he went to Marrocos, where he bought two Camels. Then he set out on his epic journey, but the soon ran into problems. He was stung by a scorpion; he fell off a camel and broke several bones. He got lost and ran out of water in temperatures of over 45º Celsius, and he suffered from the hot sun, wind and sand. 

        

Eventually, after almost three weeks, he reached his destination, where a television crew, which was waiting for him, had given up hope of seeing him alive. He weighed 25 kilos less than when he had started.

TEXTO - MASTIGADO:   

 

**       He set out on his epic journey, but he soon ran into problems.

Ele iniciou sua épica jornada, mas logo ele deparou - encontrou alguns problemas.

Set out on = began

Ran into = met

Stung by = attacked by a scorpion

Ran out =  no more water

Given up =  Desist; stop