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Lista de verbos irregulares em pdf

Normalmente temos problemas em memorizar os verbos irregulares, por esse motivo coloco aqui uma lista em pdf para que sua impressão seja facilitada.
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http://www.facensa.com.br/paginapessoal/elen/files/Basic_2/list_of_irregular_verbs.pdf


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What Moves America? Some Transportation Trends in the US

Can you find -ed sounds in this extract?? How many of each different sounds are there?

What Moves America? Some Transportation Trends in the US

Vancouver Park board

Tenha textos relevantes à cultura de língua inglesa em seu Facebook, e ainda veja a beleza de British Columbia!!

http://www.facebook.com/parkboard

Probable mistakes with vowels- #1

The first problem, and perhaps the most evident, will occur in the vicinity of the front/high vowels.  The English /iy/ as in eat and /I/ as in bit ,are very likely to be perceived and produced as Portuguese /i/ as in pipa, thus neutralizing the contrast between words like:

beach /biytsh/ - bitch /bItsh/
bead /biyd/ - bid /bId/
beat /biyt/ - bit /bIt/
cheap /tshiyp/ - chip /tshIp/
eat  /iyt/ - it /It/
feel /fiyl/ - fill /fIl/
feet /fiyt/ - fit /fIt/
green /griyn/ - grin /grIn/
heat /hiyt/ - hit /hIt/
heel /hiyl/ - hill /hIl/
lead /liyd/ - lid /lId/
leap /liyp/ - lip /lIp/
least /liyst/ - list /lIst/






Since the English phonemes /iy/ and /I/ carry a very heavy functional load, any neutralization in this area becomes a problem of major significance.


source:
Schütz, Ricardo. "Os Fonemas Vogais do Inglês e do Português." English Made in Brazil <http://www.sk.com.br/sk-voga.html>. Online. 28 de maio de 2008.

The Forgotten Cornerstone

PHONOLOGY

Brazilian Portuguese is a syllable-timed language, in contrast to English. This can result in learners having serious difficulty reproducing the appropriate intonation patterns of spoken English. This is less of a problem for European Portuguese speakers, whose Portuguese variety is stress-timed like English. Portuguese contains about 9 vowel sounds (plus 6 dipthongs) and 19 consonant sounds. This is fewer than English, and there are fewer consonant clusters. These differences can result in the following pronunciation issues:

• failure to distinguish minimal pairs such as rich/reach, pack/puck or head/had
• inaudibility of unstressed vowels at the end of a word, e.g., part (for party)
• problems with dipthongs such as in hear/hair
• the inclusion of vowel sounds before, between or following consonants, e.g., estrap (for strap) or monthes (for months)
• nasalization of the final /m/ or /n/, so ran, for example, becomes rang
• the expected problems with words such as then, think or breathe
• failure to discriminate between words such as pig/big or gale/kale
• substitution of ear for hear or high for I.
• ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE VOWEL PHONEMES COMPARED(http://www.sk.com.br/sk-spell.html)
• probable errors with vowels