Inglês com áudio, transcrição e mp3

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Inglês com áudio, transcrição e mp3

O The Flatmates é uma sessão do site BBC Learning English que apresenta semanalmente situações vividas por uma turma que compartilha o mesmo apartamento. Os diálogos são curtos e de fácil compreensão, como se não bastasse, o visitante ainda pode baixar o áudio em mp3 para praticar o listening. Até o momento são mais de 120 diálogos nos arquivos do Flatmates e muitos outros estão por vir.
A turma do The Flatmates (formada por Tim, Helen, Khalid, Alice e Michael) passa por situações do cotidiano, por conta disso é um excelente recurso, principalmente para usar em sala de aula. Quer conhecer o site? Clique aqui: The Flatmates

Maroon 5

Maroon 5 is a soul-influenced rock band from Los Angeles California comprising five members: Adam Levine (lead vocals, guitar), James Valentine (guitar, backing vocals) Jesse Carmichael (keywords, backing vocals), Mickey Maddenbass (bass guitar) and Matt Flynn drums).The band is best known for their hit singles "Harder to Breathe", "This Love", "She Will Be Loved", "Sunday Morning" and most recently" "Makes me wonder".Find out more at Wikipedia. Listen and decide if you like it or not:

History of OK

The word O.K. was firstly used in 1838 by Boston newspaper.
They tried to come up with the way to make the journal more interesting by using acronyms such as I.D.N (I don't know).
The acronym was getting distorted from time to time and one of them is O.W. which stands for All right because the pronunciation is similar to Oll Wright as well as O.K. which stands for All Correct because the pronunciation is similar to Oll Korrect.

However, the O.K. would have been forgotten over time had it not been used in the campaign for U.S. President of Martin Van Buren.
The O.K. Club was established to support Van Buren in the election. This O.K. stands for Old Kinderhook which is his hometown. Even though he lost the election it brought a big popularity to the word O.K.
The popularity of O.K. is widesperad and continue until present.

Learning Part
The author plays with the word "berg"
Acronym = Words formed from initial letters of a name/ word.
Pronunciation = The way to speak words
Election = The right or ability to make a chioce (vote)
Establish = Set up
Some sources from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/