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🇺🇸 English for Brazilians · Fluency Level 1

PART 1 · LESSON 7 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

A date that wasn't clear

A door slams in the hallway and covers up the year of a move, and Ana learns to state what she caught and what she missed, and reconstruct the order of events out loud for the group. Say we moved the bakery to this street in ninety-eight, sorry a door slammed I caught the bakery move but missed the year, ninety-eight, was that before or after your daughter was born, after she was two she slept in a flour box, so ninety-eight this street a two-year-old girl in a flour box, a clean box, did everyone hear that, we did the box was clean, very clean.

Audio instruction: Brazilian Portuguese

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THE STORY

In the circle, a noise from the hallway swallows up the year the bakery moved, and Ana recovers the detail out loud, with the order of events and a flour box.

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We moved the bakery to this street in ninety-eight.uí múvd tha BÊI-ke-ri tu this strít in NÁIN-ti êitWe moved the bakery to this street in ninety-eight.
Sorry, a door slammed. I caught the bakery moving, but I missed the year.SÓ-ri, a dór slémd. ai kót tha BÊI-ke-ri MÚ-ving, bât ai mist tha íarSorry, a door slammed. I caught the bakery moving, but I missed the year.
Ninety-eight.NÁIN-ti êitNinety-eight.
Was that before or after your daughter was born?uóz thét bi-FÓR or ÉF-ter iór DÓ-ter uóz bórnWas that before or after your daughter was born?
After. She was two. She slept in a flour box.ÉF-ter. shi uóz tú. shi slépt in a FLÁU-er bóksAfter. She was two. She slept in a flour box.
So, ninety-eight, this street, a two-year-old in a flour box.sôu, NÁIN-ti êit, this strít, a TÚ-íar-ôuld in a FLÁU-er bóksSo, ninety-eight, this street, a two-year-old girl in a flour box.
A clean one.a klín uânA clean box.
Did everyone catch that?did É-vri-uan kétch thétDid everyone catch that?
We did. The box was clean.uí did. tha bóks uóz klínWe did. The box was clean.
Very clean.VÉ-ri klínVery clean.