THE LOGICAL SONG

When I was young, it seemed that life was so ___________________,
A miracle, oh it was ___________________, ___________________.
And all the birds in the trees, well they’d be singing so ___________________,
Oh ___________________, oh ___________________ watching me.
But then they sent me away to teach me how to be ___________________
___________________, oh ___________________, ___________________
And they showed me a world where I could be so ___________________
Oh ___________________, oh ___________________, ___________________

There are times when all the world’s asleep, the questions run too deep for such a simple man.
Won’t you please, please tell me what we’ve learned, I know it sounds absurd
(But) please tell me who I am

Now watch what you say or they’ll be calling you a ___________________
A ___________________, oh ___________________, ___________________
Won’t you sign up your name, we’d like to feel you’re
___________________, ___________________, oh ___________________, a vegetable!

At night when all the world’s asleep, the questions run so deep for such a simple man.
Won’t you please, please tell me what we’ve learned
I know it sounds absurd
But please tell me who I am.

COUNTABLE x UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

 

GILMORE GIRLS S01XEP01 “PILOT”

 A. Match the pieces of information about the characters from the episode:

1. Lorelay	( ) chef	( ) middle aged woman
2. Rory	( ) student	( ) is bad humored
3. Michel	( ) her mother has an antique store	( ) likes to read books
4. Miss Patty	( ) hotel attendant	( ) is 32 years old
5. Luke	( ) hotel menager	( ) is clumsy
6. Sookie	( ) has a diner restaurant	( ) is Korean descendent
7. Lane	( ) teaches ballet	( ) is French

 

 

B. Interpretation. Read the passages and say what these people wanted to say, or what their intention was when they said the underlined sentences:

1. Lorelai: Hi, Mom.

Emily: Lorelai, my goodness, this is a surprise. Is it Easter already?

Lorelai: No, I just, uh, finished up my business class and I thought I would stop by.

Emily: To see me?

Lorelai: Yes.

Emily: Well, isn’t that nice. Come in.

Lorelai: Thanks.

2. Joey: You do not look like a mother. And you do not look like a daughter.

Lorelai: That’s possibly very sweet of you.

Joey: So ... daughter. You know I am travelling with a friend...

Lorelai: She’s sixteen.

 Joey: Bye.

Lorelai: Drive safe.

3. Lorelai: What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?

Sookie: You can have anything I own. My car! Sell my car!

Lorelai: Oh, sweetie, no one wants your car.

Sookie: Yeah.

4. Rory: How many meals is it gonna take’til we’re off the hook?

Lorelai: I think the deli spread at my funeral will be the last one.

5. Lane: So I told my mom you’re changing schools.

Rory: Was she thrilled?

Lane: The party’s on Friday.

 

C. Use a dictionary and give synonyms in English for the bold word in this Episode summary

After Rory is accepted to the prestigious Chilton Preparatory School, Lorelai is forced to go to her wealthy parents for financial assistance. Her parents happily loan their daughter the money in exchange for an end to the estrangement and a family dinner every Friday night. Unfortunately, things hit a snag when a cute new transfer student flirts with Rory, leading the younger Gilmore to wonder whether leaving Stars Hollow High is really what she wants.

RETRACING S1XEP01 WITH PASSIVE VOICE

 1. At the beginning, Mary Alice says that, in the morning she died, she made breakfast for her family, performed her chores, completed her projects, ran her errands.

2. Martha Huber, the neighbor, discovers Mary Alice’s body, when she returns the blender.

3. Martha calls 911.

4. People are bringing food to Mary Alice’s mourn: Lynette brought fried chicken; Gabrielle brought paella; Bree brought muffins; Susan brought mac and cheese.

5. Lynette is afraid her kids will humiliate her.

6. Her friends remember Mary Alice at the table.

7. Susan has removed the dish from the table when she is leaving.

8. Linette gives her baby to the man, and then she enters the pool to take the kids out.

9. Susan’s ex-husband thinks she is not capable of dating again. So, to prove he is wrong, Susan is going to visit Mike.

10. Susan has just given flowers to Mike when Edie arrives.

11. Gabrielle was betraying Carlos with John, the gardener.

12. During dinner, Bree feels Andrew offended her.

13. At the supermarket, Lynette gave Natalie an untrue answer.

14. At night, Susan admits she was using her daughter to hurt her ex-husband while Rex was asking Bree for divorce.

15. Later, a strange noise wakes up Zach.

16. After an accident with food, Rex assumes Bree was disappointing him for a long time.

17. Carlos suspects the gardener didn’t mow the lawn and, not to cause bigger trouble, Gabbie pays a waiter to distract Carlos during the party.

18. A few days later, not to lose Mike’s heart, clumsy Susan sets fire at Edie’s house.

19. Everybody in Wisteria Lane is very mysterious. Mike makes a strange call, and he has a gun.

20. The girls bring champagne to have a toast, but they discover a letter, maybe it will reveal the secret. Who knows? Only the end of Desperate Housewives’ Season 1 can tell…

SUPER-HERÓI TEM COR?

 

Vermelho é a cor do herói. Azul é também a cor do herói. Não há maneira melhor de dizer que seu personagem é um herói do que dar a ele uma fantasia que seja principalmente vermelha, azul e às vezes amarela para garantir.

Se você vir um personagem usando vermelho e azul com destaque, é provável que ele seja o herói, o personagem principal ou, pelo menos, esteja jogando pelo lado dos mocinhos. Enquanto o azul normalmente simboliza determinação heroica e cuidado, o vermelho representa paixão e força justas, é uma boa identificação visual para o público de que essa é uma pessoa em quem você pode confiar.

Vermelho e azul são cores fortes que se equilibram bem e são comumente combinadas. Geralmente azul abaixo da cintura e vermelho acima, seja usando armadura, vestidos, meias-calças de super-herói ou algo simples como jeans azul e uma camiseta vermelha. Amarelo é a escolha para uma terceira cor (com branco sendo uma quarta opção), provavelmente relacionada à superioridade colorida dourada e a divindade do ouro e branco (com amarelo representando ouro na animação). A outra configuração típica é que a maior parte do traje será azul, uma parte icônica dele (como um chapéu ou uma capa) será vermelha e amarelo será usado para detalhes, acabamentos, botões, logotipos e outros acessórios.

Essa associação pode ter surgido dos primeiros dias dos quadrinhos em que personagens heroicos normalmente tinham esquemas de cores que ostentavam cores primárias (vermelho, azul, amarelo, como o Superman), enquanto vilões normalmente tinham cores secundárias (roxo, verde, laranja, cinza - pense no Coringa, Duende Verde ou na icônica armadura elétrica de Lex Luthor).

 

Traduzido de: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PrimaryColorChampion

 

QUANTIFIERS II

 

1 – some, a small number                                     

2 – almost nothing

3 – exaggeration, negative                                  

4 – used in questions

5 – used in affirmative sentences                      

6 – used in negative sentences

7 – used in negative sentences when the verb is in negative form.

8 – under context, you can omit the noun, but use NONE instead, “I have none”.

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