Daylight Saving Time

Daylight saving time ended on Sunday, February 26th at midnight.
The clock went back 1 hour at that time.

Daylight Saving Time = Horário de Verão
went back = foi atrasado

Other related terms:
Change your clock = arrume se relógio
Set you clock ahead = adiante seu relógio

Lollipop

É muito fácil e muito legal ensinar a palavra LOLLIPOP para as crianças.

LOLLIPOP = PIRULITO

Para começar, pergunte quem sabe o que é um LOLLIPOP .

Eles não vão saber, é claro. Instigue-os dizendo: Vamos descobrir?

Primeiro faça com eles os corações (HEARTS) e depois as folhas (LEAVES) utilizando cartolina verde e vermelha ou outro papel e cor de sua preferência. Pronuncie estas palavras enquanto desenham e recortam os hearts e as leaves.

Uma folha = one leaf
Duas folhas = two leaves

Mostre os LOLLIPOPS e diga que agora eles farão uma FLOWER com os LOLLIPOPS .

Pergunte: Quem sabe o que é uma FLOWER? Vamos descobrir.

Colo com durex as LEAVES e os HEARTS nos LOLLIPOPS e entregue uma FLOWER a cada aluno.

Enjoy your lollipop!!!

Imaginarium

Imaginarium, a chain of gift shops, will open 20 stores in the first half of 2012. Fifteen out of these twenty, are already closed contracts. The goal of this retail chain is to have 40 new stores this year and one hundred new units in 2015.

Vocabulary:
Retail chain = rede de lojas
Half = metade
Fifteen out of these twenty = 15 destas 20
Closed contracts = contratos fechados

Computers

The national computer market has reached the mark of 15.4 million machines sold in 2011. The number consolidates Brazil third in the global PC market, behind only China and the United States.

Vocabulary:
Has reached = alcançou
Consolidates = consolida
Behind = atrás

Valentine's Day

Saint Valentine was a bishop who held secret marriage ceremonies of soldiers in opposition to Claudius II who had prohibited marriage for young men.
The emperor Claudius II trusted that single men had a better performance in the wars.
Saint Valentine was sentenced and executed on February 14, 270 AD.

Bishop = bispo
Held = realizava
Trusted that = acreditava que
Performance = desempenho
Executed = executado