THE TOP 500 SPOKEN WORDS IN ENGLISH

A Cambridge English Corpus selecionou uma amostra de 500 entre quatro milhões e meio de palavras usadas em conversação no Inglês norte-americano, a mais frequente é a palavra “I”, que está no topo da lista.

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1 I

2 and

3 the

4 you

5 uh

6 to

7 a

8 that

9 it

10 of

11 yeah

12 know

13 in

14 like

15 they

16 have

17 so

18 was

19 but

20 is

21 it’s

22 we

23 huh

24 just

25 oh

26 do

27 don’t

28 that’s

29 well

30 for

31 what

32 on

33 think

34 right

35 not

36 um

37 or

38 my

39 be

40 really

41 with

42 he

43 one

44 are

45 this

46 there

47 I’m

48 all

49 if

50 no

51 get

52 about

53 at

54 out

55 had

56 then

57 because

58 go

59 up

60 she

61 when

62 them

63 can

64 would

65 as

66 me

67 mean

68 some

69 good

70 got

71 OK

72 people

73 now

74 going

75 were

76 lot

77 your

78 time

79 see

80 how

81 they’re

82 kind

83 here

84 from

85 did

86 something

87 too

88 more

89 very

90 want

91 little

92 been

93 things

94 an

95 you’re

96 said

97 there’s

98 I’ve

99 much

100 where

101 two

102 thing

103 her

104 didn’t

105 other

106 say

107 back

108 could

109 their

110 our

111 guess

112 yes

113 way

114 has

115 down

116 we’re

117 any

118 he’s

119 work

120 take

121 even

122 those

123 over

124 probably

125 him

126 who

127 put

128 years

129 sure

130 can’t

131 pretty

132 gonna

133 stuff

134 come

135 these

136 by

137 into

138 went

139 make

140 than

141 year

142 three

143 which

144 home

145 will

146 nice

147 never

148 only

149 his

150 doing

151 cause

152 off

153 I’ll

154 maybe

155 real

156 why

157 big

158 actually

159 she’s

160 day

161 five

162 always

163 school

164 look

165 still

166 around

167 anything

168 kids

169 first

170 does

171 need

172 us

173 should

174 talking

175 last

176 thought

177 doesn’t

178 different

179 money

180 long

181 used

182 getting

183 same

184 four

185 every

186 new

187 everything

188 many

189 before

190 though

191 most

192 tell

193 being

194 bit

195 house

196 also

197 use

198 through

199 feel

200 course

201 what’s

202 old

203 done

204 sort

205 great

206 bad

207 we’ve

208 another

209 car

210 true

211 whole

212 whatever

213 twenty

214 after

215 ever

216 find

217 care

218 better

219 hard

220 haven’t

221 trying

222 give

223 I’d

224 problem

225 else

226 remember

227 might

228 again

229 pay

230 try

231 place

232 part

233 let

234 keep

235 children

236 anyway

237 came

238 six

239 family

240 wasn’t

241 talk

242 made

243 hundred

244 night

245 call

246 saying

247 dollars

248 live

249 away

250 either

251 read

252 having

253 far

254 watch

255 week

256 mhm

257 quite

258 enough

259 next

260 couple

261 own

262 wouldn’t

263 ten

264 interesting

265 am

266 sometimes

267 bye

268 seems

269 heard

270 goes

271 called

272 point

273 ago

274 while

275 fact

276 once

277 seen

278 wanted

279 isn’t

280 start

281 high

282 somebody

283 let’s

284 times

285 guy

286 area

287 fun

288 they’ve

289 you’ve

290 started

291 job

292 says

293 play

294 usually

295 wow

296 exactly

297 took

298 few

299 child

300 thirty

301 buy

302 person

303 working

304 half

305 looking

306 someone

307 coming

308 eight

309 love

310 everybody

311 able

312 we’ll

313 life

314 may

315 both

316 type

317 end

318 least

319 told

320 saw

321 college

322 ones

323 almost

324 since

325 days

326 couldn’t

327 gets

328 guys

329 god

330 country

331 wait

332 yet

333 believe

334 thinking

335 funny

336 state

337 until

338 husband

339 idea

340 name

341 seven

342 together

343 each

344 hear

345 help

346 nothing

347 parents

348 room

349 today

350 makes

351 stay

352 mom

353 sounds

354 change

355 understand

356 such

357 gone

358 system

359 comes

360 thank

361 show

362 thousand

363 left

364 friends

365 class

366 already

367 eat

368 small

369 boy

370 paper

371 world

372 best

373 water

374 myself

375 run

376 they’ll

377 won’t

378 movie

379 cool

380 news

381 number

382 man

383 basically

384 nine

385 enjoy

386 bought

387 whether

388 especially

389 taking

390 sit

391 book

392 fifty

393 months

394 women

395 month

396 found

397 side

398 food

399 looks

400 summer

401 hmm

402 fine

403 hey

404 student

405 agree

406 mother

407 problems

408 city

409 second

410 definitely

411 spend

412 happened

413 hours

414 war

415 matter

416 supposed

417 worked

418 company

419 friend

420 set

421 minutes

422 morning

423 between

424 music

425 close

426 leave

427 wife

428 knew

429 pick

430 important

431 ask

432 hour

433 deal

434 mine

435 reason

436 credit

437 dog

438 group

439 turn

440 making

441 American

442 weeks

443 certain

444 less

445 must

446 dad

447 during

448 lived

449 forty

450 air

451 government

452 eighty

453 wonderful

454 seem

455 wrong

456 young

457 places

458 girl

459 happen

460 sorry

461 living

462 drive

463 outside

464 bring

465 easy

466 stop

467 percent

468 hand

469 gosh

470 top

471 cut

472 computer

473 tried

474 gotten

475 mind

476 business

477 anybody

478 takes

479 aren’t

480 question

481 rather

482 twelve

483 phone

484 program

485 without

486 moved

487 gave

488 yep

489 case

490 looked

491 certainly

492 talked

493 beautiful

494 card

495 walk

496 married

497 anymore

498 you’ll

499 middle

500 tax

Como dizer em Inglês DINHEIRO NÃO TRAZ FELICIDADE

Falando novamente em dinheiro aí vai outra expressão idiomática "dinheiro não traz felicidade" ou "as melhores coisas da vida são de graça", assim começava a canção MONEY (THAT´S WHAT I WANT) dos The Beatles, que eu amo. A expressão, THE BEST THINGS  IN LIFE ARE FREE.

- The advertising industry exists to convince us that the best things in life are free.

- Friendship, laughter, family, love, health...Can you buy those things?

- Maybe, not, but can you maintain any of them without money?

Reading Time: AT THE ZOO

At the Zoo

A zoo keeper asked a big, strong fellow: Want a job?

Doing what? he asked.

Our gorilla died, the zoo keeper replied. If we got you a special suit, would you imitate him for several days?

Yes sir! he answered.

He did very well, until one day he accidentally entered in the lion's den. Help! he yelled.

Shut up, you idiot! cried the man dressed as a lion. You'll get us both fired.

Vocabulário:. both - ambos
. den - covil
. die - morrer
. dressed as - vestido como
. fellow - pessoa
. fired - demitido
. job - emprego
. reply - responder
. several - muitos
. shut up - cala a boca
. suit - roupa
. zoo - zoológico

Reading Time: THE BEST

Uma das maiores dificuldades que tenho encontrado ao ministrar aulas é encontrar um meio de estimular os alunos a gostarem de ler. Sempre digo aos meus alunos que a melhor maneira de acumular conhecimento de novas palavras é o hábito da leitura, mas pouquíssimos leem, eu insisto e digo para que eles busquem uma área de interesse e busquem um texto em uma revista, livro, ou mesmo a internet que está cheia de material de qualquer área. Vou começar a postar pequenos textos,
citações, provérbios e outros com um glossário de algumas palavras do mesmo, em português, as quais apenas com o significado que as mesmas assumem dentro do contexto apresentado, pois muitas delas possuem múltiplos significados, pois o objetivo é apenas esclarecer o texto apresentado.

Vamos começar com o título THE BEST, uma
citação (quotation) de DALE CARNEGIE,
 Dale Breckenridge Carnegie (Carnagey até 1922) - Missouri, 24 de novembro de 1888 - Nova Iorque, 1 de novembro de 1955, foi um escritor e orador norte-americano.
Autor de best-sellers como Como Fazer Amigos e Influenciar Pessoas, e Como Evitar Preocupações e Começar a Viver,(tenho os dois livros em meu acervo),  graças ao sucesso obtido chegou a ser conselheiro de líderes mundiais. Escreveu colunas em diversos jornais e teve o seu próprio programa de rádio. Fundou o que é hoje uma rede mundial de mais de 2.700 instrutores e escritórios em aproximadamente 90 países em todo o mundo.

"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves." Dale Carnegie 
Vocabulário: . afraid - temeroso
. give you best - dar o melhor de si
. seemingly - aparentemente
. small Jobs - tarefas pequenas
. much stronger - muito mais forte
. tend - tender
. take care of themselves - se arrumar por si só


 

Como dizer em Inglês : (SER) MÃO-ABERTA, (SER) GENEROSO, (SER) ATENCIOSO

A expressão "(to be) open-handed" Não indica somente generosidade em relação ao dinheiro, mas também na hora de dar uma informação, ou simplesmente quando se trata de honestidade.
Sinônimo: magnanimous, bountiful, lavish, unstinting, kind, giving, big-hearted, nobel,altruistic,

....e mais...

It is good to be generous, but people cannot expect you to be open-handed without offering something in return.

Be open-handed with salt and butter but stingy with milk, which will flatten out the bright, earthy potato taste.

.     John is very open-handed; you can ask him for anything and he will give it to you.

Reading Time - WHILE YOU SLEEP, YOUR BRAIN WORKS

Why do we need sleep?

Is bedtime just a time for dreaming? Do our brains turn off for the night? What if I told you that scientists recently discovered that our brains may be just as busy at night as they are during the day?

While we sleep, our brains are doing much more than getting ready for the next day. Researchers at the University of Rochester found that the brain may be busy cleaning house -- cleaning out harmful waste materials.

As with many studies, the researchers turned to mice for help. They studied mice that had colored dye injected into their brains. They observed the mice brains as they slept and when they were awake. The researchers say they saw that the brains of sleeping mice were hard at work.


Working Double Duty
Dr. Maiken Nedergaard led the study. The brain expert says our brains perform two very different jobs. It seems they have daytime jobs. Later they "moonlight" at a nighttime job.

"Moonlighting" is working a nighttime job in addition to a day job. And this study says that is what our brains seem to be doing – working an extra job at night without additional pay for overtime.

"When we are awake, the brain cells are working very hard at processing all the information about our surroundings. Whereas during sleep, they work very, very hard at removing all the waste that builds up when we are awake."

The researchers say that the waste material includes poisons, or toxins, responsible for brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease.

They also found that during sleep, the brain’s cells shrink, or become smaller. This shrinking permits waste to be removed more effectively.

Dr. Nedergaard says these toxins end up in the liver. There, they are broken down and then removed from the body.

"So our study suggests that we need to sleep because we have a macroscopic cleaning system that removes many of the toxic waste products from the brain."

The brain’s cleaning system could only be studied with new imaging technologies. The test animal must be alive in order to see this brain process to be seen as it happens.

Dr. Nedergaard says the next step is to look for the process in human brains. She said the results demonstrate just how important sleep is to health and fighting disease. The research may also one day lead to treatments to prevent or help fight neurological disorders.


7 Tips for Better Sleeping
Do you have trouble sleeping? Not being able to sleep is called insomnia. According to the United States National Sleep Foundation, here are some tips for a good night’s sleep:
.Go to bed about the same time each night, even on weekends. This helps to "set" your body’s "sleep clock."
.Exercise every day.
.Have a calm, relaxing bedtime routine – take a warm bath or drink a hot cup of tea.
.Try not to take long naps during the day. Periods of sleep during the daytime can interfere with sleep at night.
.Make sure you have a pleasant environment where you sleep. For most people, a cool, quiet and dark room is best for sleeping.
.Avoid using television, computers and other electronic screens before bedtime.
.Also avoid alcohol, cigarettes and heavy meals before bedtime.

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Words in the News

insomnia - n. a prolonged and usually abnormal inability to get enough sleep ("An insomniac is a person who has trouble sleeping over a long period of time.")

to moonlight; moonlighting – v. to work at a second job in addition to your regular job ("No wonder she is so tired at work. I just found out that she has been moonlighting as a night club singer.")

toxin n. a poisonous substance and especially one that is produced by a living thing. "Toxic" is the adjective of "toxin." ("The liver gets rid of many toxins in the body.")

inject v. to force a liquid medicine or drug into someone or something by using a special needle ("They injected the mice with dye." "The injection was a colored dye solution.")

shrink v. to become smaller in amount, size, or value ("She washed her new wool sweater in hot water and it shrunk two sizes! So, she gave it to her little sister.")


source (fonte): This article was written for Learning English by Anna Matteo. It is based on a report by VOA health reporter Carol Pearson.
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Quotation: by Johnny Cash

GLOSSARY:

you aren´t gonna = you are not going to

might as well = poderia muito bem

JOHNNY R. CASH -  mais conhecido como Johnny Cash, foi um cantor e compositor norte-americano de música country, conhecido por seus fãs como "O Homem de Preto". Nasceu em 26 de fevereiro de 1932 em Arkansas, Estados Unidos e morreu em 12 de setembro de 2003 em Tennessee, Estados Unidos.
Em uma carreira que durou quase cinco décadas ele foi para muitas pessoas a personificação do country. Sua voz sepulcral e o distintivo som "boom chicka boom" de sua banda de apoio "Tennessee Three" dão às canções de Johnny Cash o seu som característico.

Johnny Cash interpreta uma de suas últimas canções:

 

 

PUNCTUATION MARKS - PONTUAÇÃO EM INGLÊS

                             

 PUNCTUATION  MARKS


A: I want to learn to drive; however, cars scare me.
       semi-colon ( ; )                                       period ( . )

B: Why not take a driver-training course?

        hyphen  ( - )                 question mark ( ? )

A: I´m not ready.
  apostrophe ( ´)


B: I know! If you want, I´ll teach you to drive.
     exclamation mark  ( ! )        comma ( , )


A: Ok, but remember this: it was your idea, not mine
       colon ( : )

                                               

QUOTATION MARK: 'ASPAS' em português,  usado para indicar o início e o final de uma citação, por exemplo:

ERROS COMUNS - O USO DE '"IT" NAS FRASES

Não diga: Is very difficult to work when is hot - Diga: It´s very difficult to work when it´s hot.

Em Inglês não é comum começar uma frase com  um verbo, somente com imperativos, como por exemplo "sit down", ou convites, como "have a seat", então não é possível traduzir "é muito difícil" ou "estava calor" começando com o verbo 'to be' somente. Sempre precisamos incluir 'it' com adjetivos, substantivos, verbos, horas, distâncias e medidas.

Por exemplo:
IT´S - IT WAS:
    a pity/my book/the end
    easy/delicious/funny
    raining/snowing/getting dark
    4 o´clock/3.30/midnight
    about 20km/3 feet long/2°C

Careful: Cuidado nas perguntas também: Is it hot outside? Is it easy? Is it 8 o´clock?