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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!
Neste episódio falamos sobre os drones estão levando a proteção ambiental para as alturas. Nós também falamos sobre o homem que pousou um avião sozinho, após seu piloto perder a consciência. Por fim, falamos sobre a continuação de um filme lançado há mais de 35 anos!
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Transcrição do episódio
Hello, squad! Welcome to another episode of Fluency News! I’m Thalita Uba, one of your teachers here at Fluency Academy. Thank you for joining me today!
There won’t be any dilly-dallying today, and we’ll get right to it! Before we get to our first story, let me just remind you to go to fluencytv.com to have access to all of our sources and to the transcript of this episode!
A man in Florida is being hailed a hero for landing a plane after his pilot went unconscious. The unidentified man’s voice was heard in public flight recordings, telling the airport tower that he had “no idea how to stop the airplane”.
An air traffic controller who teaches new pilots helped guide the man down to Palm Beach International Airport just after noon on Tuesday, May 10.
Robert Morgan, a longtime flight instructor, has been working with air traffic control for over 20 years. Although Morgan had no experience with the specific model, he was able to give instructions to the man.
“I knew the plane was flying like any other plane. I just knew I had to keep him calm, point him to the runway and tell him how to reduce the power, so he could descend to land,” Mr. Morgan said.
“I’ve got a serious situation here. My pilot has gone incoherent,” the man was heard saying over the radio from around 9,000ft (2.74 km) in the air. “He is out,” he added.
Asked for his position, he responded: “I have no idea.” The air traffic controller was tasked with locating the plane, while the man repeatedly said he had no idea how to stop the craft. “I don’t know how to do anything”, he added.
In the recording, Mr. Morgan is heard teaching the man to “push forward on the controls and descend at a very slow rate” as he approaches for landing.
“Before I knew it, he said, ‘I’m on the ground. How do I turn this thing off?’”, Mr. Morgan recalled.
“I felt like I was going to cry then because I had so much adrenaline built up,” Mr. Morgan told CNN. “It was an emotional moment. He said that he just wanted to get home to his pregnant wife… And that felt even better.”
“In my eyes, he was the hero,” he continued. “I was just doing my job.”
The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane was privately registered to an address in the state of Connecticut.
The pilot was transported to hospital by Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. The pilot’s name and condition have not been released.
Nessa notícia, nós temos muitas frases sendo usadas na voz passiva. A voz passiva é útil para contextos nos quais o que realmente importa não é quem fez a ação, mas quem recebeu a ação, ou o que foi feito.
Frases na active voice, voz ativa, são aquelas em que o pessoa que pratica a ação está em evidência. Em frases na passive voice, voz passiva, o objeto que recebe a ação é que está em evidência.
Em notícias, muitas vezes o acontecimento tem mais evidência do que as pessoas envolvidas, e por isso é comum vermos o uso dessa estrutura em textos jornalísticos. Nessa história, principalmente, como não sabemos o nome do homem que conseguiu pousar o avião, o foco precisa estar no que foi feito, e não em quem o fez.
Essa estrutura pode ser formada usando verb to be e o past participle do verbo seguinte.
Talking about the environment, biodiversity and global warming might get tiring at points. Talking about drones that can rapidly fire seeds into the ground, however, will never get boring.
A start-up in Australia is using a fleet of drones, called “octocopters”, to fight deforestation by dropping seed pods into the ground from high in the sky.
AirSeed Technology is fighting deforestation by combining artificial intelligence with specially designed seed pods.
Andrew Walker, CEO and co-founder of AirSeed Technology, said that each of the drones can plant over 40,000 seed pods per day, and they fly autonomously.
“In comparison to traditional methodologies, that’s 25 times faster, but also 80 percent cheaper”, he said.
The pods are made using waste biomass, providing a carbon rich coating that protects the seeds from birds, insects, and rodents.
Once in the air, the drones navigate fixed flight paths, planting to predefined patterns and recording each seeds’ coordinates.
This allows AirSeed to assess the health of their trees as they grow.
“We’re being very mindful of the fact that we need to restore soil health, we need to restore microbial communities within the soil, and we need to restore primary habitat providers for animals,” continues Walker, who believes the sky’s the limit for the drone-based technology.
The company has already planted more than 50,000 trees, and aims to plant a total of 100 million by the year 2024. How cool is that? That’s definitely a conversation-starter, if we’ve ever seen one.
Você sabe como usar as palavras in ou into em inglês? Você já deve ter escutado que in significa “dentro”, certo? A palavra in expressa um lugar fixo. A palavra into, no entanto, é utilizada para expressar movimento ou direção. Poderíamos traduzir como “para dentro’, por exemplo.
And finally, to end today’s episode, some news that probably have a least a few of you squealing. A sequel to Dirty Dancing is coming after more than three decades since its debut. The original film’s leading lady, Jennifer Grey, is coming back, to reprise her role as Baby, and to serve as an executive producer.
Lionsgate’s CEO, Jon Feltheimer, confirmed the news back in 2020, but more details are now emerging, including the release date for the film.
Elizabeth Chomko and Jonathan Levine were tasked with co-writing the script, and Levine will also direct the sequel.
Sadly, Patrick Swayze, who was Grey’s co-star, passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2009, and will not be shown on screen. Variety, has, however, reported that the “filmmakers are in conversations with Swayze’s estate to incorporate the actor’s presence in some way”.
While some original songs from the movie will make an appearance, Levine has said that some ‘90s hip-hop, Alanis Morissete and Liz Phair are also part of the new movie’s soundtrack. The director hopes that a story of summer, romance and dancing, will entice a generation of new fans.
He has promised longtime fans of the original to “not ruin your childhood”. “We will tackle the assignment with sophistication, ambition, and, above all, love”, he said.
The studio is aiming for a 2024 release, and the sequel will also be titled “Dirty Dancing”.
A preposição for pode ser traduzida para “para”, em português. Outras palavras em inglês também tem essa tradução, e isso pode causar confusão. For geralmente vai ser usado quando você fala de um propósito, ou de algo que é feito para/por alguém, por exemplo. Também usamos essa preposição para falar de um período de tempo, de favores, e de funções, funcionalidade ou objetivo de alguma coisa.
That was our last story of the day! Did you get the reference in the title? Fans of the original movie are going to have “the time of their lives” with that one.
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Stories
‘No idea’ passenger lands Florida plane as pilot falls ill
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61416384
These seed-firing drones are planting 40,000 trees every day to fight deforestation
https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/05/04/this-australian-start-up-wants-to-fight-deforestation-with-an-army-of-drones
35 Years Later, Dirty Dancing Is Getting A Sequel – And Jennifer Grey Will Be Back As Baby
https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/dirty-dancing-sequel
