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Sejam bem-vindos e bem-vindas a mais um episódio da nossa série de podcasts, o Fluency News! Aqui, você vai treinar a sua escuta e ficar por dentro do que está acontecendo no mundo, sempre com as principais notícias da semana, tudo em inglês! Ao longo do episódio, nós também adicionamos explicações em português das coisas que achamos que precisam de mais atenção, assim você não perde nenhum detalhe!
No episódio desta semana, nós falaremos sobre a cerimônia do Oscar: os ganhadores e o que aconteceu durante o evento. Também temos um rápido update sobre a guerra entre a Rússia e a Ucrânia. Em seguida, nós vamos à Antártica, onde uma onda de calor pode ter causado um colapso, e encerramos falando sobre os heróis que estão entregando comida e esperança onde não há nada.
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What is up, everyone! I’m Scott Lowe, one of your English teachers here at Fluency Academy, and a native English speaker. Welcome back to Fluency News! Fluency News is Fluency Academy’s news podcast, a combination between newscast and English learning and training.
If you’re new here, welcome! Here you’ll get some of the most important stories of the week, with some explanations in Portuguese whenever necessary. Don’t forget to visit fluencytv.com to have access to the transcript of this episode, all of our sources and of course, over 1000 free lessons in all the languages we currently teach!
Now let’s get started and jump in!
We’re starting today’s episode with a look into the Oscars’ ceremony that happened on Sunday. “Coda”, a small independent film, took home the Best Picture Award, along with the Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor. An acronym for Child of Deaf Adults, “Coda” tells the story of the hearing daughter of a deaf family, who has to balance the demands of helping them in their daily lives with her own ambitions to be a singer.
“Dune”, the epic sci-fi production, won six Oscars: cinematography, editing, score, visual effects, production design and sound. Disney’s “Encanto” won for Best Animation, and the original song “No Time to Die”, written by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell for the movie, also got a statue.
Jessica Chastain took home the award for Best Actress, for her role in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”.
And though the ceremony had its usual flair, several presenters and numbers, this year’s Oscar was remarkable in another sense. Will Smith, who won Best Actor for his portrayal of the father of tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams in “King Richard”, slapped comedian Chris Rock on stage.
The comic made a joke about the actor’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.
“Jada, can’t wait for GI Jane 2,” he said, in an apparent reference to her shaved hairdo – a result of the hair loss condition alopecia.
Smith walked on stage and struck Rock before returning to his seat and shouting: “Keep my wife’s name out of your [expletive] mouth.”
The comedian looked stunned in the immediate aftermath of the incident, but told the audience: “That was the greatest night in the history of television.”
Smith later apologized to the Academy. In a tearful acceptance speech for best actor, he also said he wanted to apologize to all his fellow nominees. There was no specific apology for Rock.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which organizes the Oscars, tweeted that it “does not condone violence of any form”.
Rock is yet to comment further on what happened.
The Los Angeles Police Department later told Variety that Rock had “declined to file a police report” following the event.
Quando estamos aprendendo inglês, é muito comum associar o -ING somente ao tempo presente, para dizer que algo está acontecendo no momento. E apesar de ser usado para isso, o -ING tem mais usos. Nessa história, por exemplo, temos a palavra hearing, sendo usada como um adjetivo. Um adjetivo terminado em -ING é usado para descrever as características de uma pessoa, coisa, ou situação. Alguns exemplos são “confusing”, “interesting”, “boring”, “daring”.
Outro sufixo comum em adjetivos é -ED. Como em “bored”, ou “annoyed” ou “tired”. Esses adjetivos são usados para descrever um sentimento ou uma emoção. Eles são usados para descrever algo temporário. E como só pessoas (e animais) podem sentir coisas, os adjetivos terminado em -ED não podem ser usados para descrever uma situação ou um objeto.
Sadly, the war between Russia and Ukraine is still raging on. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has put forward a way out of the conflict that has been devastating his country for over a month.
In an interview with Russian independent media, he suggested Russian troops retreat to the position they held before February 24. He stated Ukraine is willing to become neutral and compromise over the status of the eastern Donbass region as part of a peace deal.
Speaking in Russian via Zoom on March 27, Zelenksy said he was ready to meet some of the Kremlin’s demands in future talks between the two countries’ diplomats, if any change be put to a referendum and that third parties commit to ensure the safety of Ukraine.
In a call with President Vladimir Putin on Sunday, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan agreed to hold talks this week in Istanbul and called for a ceasefire and better humanitarian conditions. Ukrainian and Russian negotiators confirmed that in-person talks would take place.
Put forward é um phrasal verb que significa oferecer uma ideia, opinião, razão ou solução, especificamente para que outras pessoas possam discutir e tomar uma decisão. É frequentemente acompanhado de substantivos como “plan”, “proposition” ou “proposal”. É mais usado em situações formais, e é um inseparable phrasal verb. Phrasal verbs podem ser separáveis ou não, e não há uma regra para quais deles podem ser separados por um objeto, por exemplo. É uma questão de prática e de internalizar o que aprender para usar em contexto! So, keep practicing!
In some very concerning environmental news, a massive ice shelf the size of New York City has completely collapsed in East Antarctica.
Satellite images posted to social media show the 1,200-square-kilometer Conger ice shelf collapsed on or around March 15.
Ice shelves are described as the “safety belts” on the oceanic margins of Antarctica.
They work to hold back the advance of glaciers toward the ocean, according to Ben Galton-Fenzi, a glaciologist and senior scientist with the Australian Antarctic Division.
When an ice shelf goes, that can act like releasing the handbrake on that land ice, allowing it to accelerate towards the ocean.
The collapse seems to have coincided with an extreme heatwave that saw parts of Antarctica experience temperatures 40 degrees Celsius above their monthly averages and records broken at several locations earlier this month.
NASA earth scientist Catherine Colello Walker tweeted images of the collapse on March 25, and said it was one of the most significant events in Antarctica since the Larsen B ice shelf collapsed in 2002.
More research will be needed to determine whether the recent heatwave was directly related to the collapse, but Matt King, who is the director of the Australian Center for Excellence in Antarctic Science at the University of Tasmania, says it could have been one factor.
Se você gosta de música pop, já deve ter escutado a música “Heat Waves”, de Glass Animals. Heatwave, normalmente escrito junto, significa “onda de calor”. Se refere a um período de tempo, como algumas semanas, em que o tempo fica muito mais quente do que o normal ou esperado. A música pop também faz alusão a esse período, em que a umidade aumenta junto com o calor, e é comum ver mudanças de humor em pessoas, devido à temperaturas extremas.
And in some news to make us feel all warm and fuzzy inside, World Central Kitchen (WCK) founder José Andrés said on Sunday that his non-profit organization has provided more than 4 million meals to Ukrainian refugees.
Andrés said that WCK is distributing more than 290,000 meals daily at more than 1,000 locations in six countries. Andrés also applauded the volunteer workers, referred to as “food fighters” for their effort to feed refugees.
“That’s the heroes that I see in Ukraine. And what you see is everybody doing whatever they can to provide comfort and relief to fellow Ukrainians, not only inside Ukraine. But in the first moment I arrived, I saw Poland. I was able to tell the president and the prime minister of Poland that the Polish people, within hours, they were in every border crossing waiting with baby food, formula, hot soup,” Andrés added.
“The temperatures were freezing. Women and children were walking across the border. And they were being welcomed at least with a message of, we care. We are going to take care of you. You are not going to be alone in this dark hour.”
And that’s definitely a message that the entire world needs right now!
And it’s with this story that we’re going to end today’s episode.
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Sources
The Oscars
https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/ceq40e9pmywt/the-oscars
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-60290065
https://www.space.com/dune-wins-6-oscars-academy-awards-2022
Ukraine-Russia War
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nearly-5000-people-killed-siege-ukraines-mariupol-mayors-office-2022-03-28
https://kfgo.com/2022/03/28/ukrainian-forces-retake-control-of-town-of-irpin-says-local-mayor/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/28/the-drone-operators-who-halted-the-russian-armoured-vehicles-heading-for-kyiv
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/rockets-strike-ukraines-lviv-biden-says-putin-cannot-remain-power-2022-03-27/
https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/818533.html
https://www.newsweek.com/zelensky-offers-putin-route-out-ukraine-war-its-compromise-1692362
Antarctic ice shelf the size of New York City finally crumbles after heatwave
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-03-28/antarctica-ice-shelf-size-new-york-city-collapses-heatwave/100944274
World Central Kitchen has provided more than 4 million meals to Ukrainian refugees
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/599930-jose-andres-says-world-central-kitchen-has-fed-more-than-4-million?rl=1
