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Postada em 27/11/2009
Locutores: Tamara and Josh

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Introdução

É fundamental sempre cumprir os prazos no trabalho. Nessa aula, aprenda a falar sobre essa responsabilidade tão importante. Aproveite!

Metas

No final dessa lição você vai ser capaz de:

Entender o uso de prefixos
Entender adjetivos com "under"

Joyce: We lost the contract, Dana. Jim didn't meet the deadline again.[audio]line1.mp3[/audio]

Dana: You're kidding me?[audio]line2.mp3[/audio]

Joyce: I say we get rid of him.[audio]line3.mp3[/audio]

Dana: Now, let's not overreact, Joyce.[audio]line4.mp3[/audio] We can't afford to let anybody go right now.[audio]line5.mp3[/audio] We're already understaffed as it is.[audio]line6.mp3[/audio]

TRADUÇÃO

Joyce: Nós perdemos o contrato, Dana. O Jim não cumpriu o prazo novamente.

Dana: Você está brincando comigo?

Joyce: Por mim, nós o mandamos embora.

Dana: Agora, não vamos exagerar, Joyce. Nós não podemos arcar com o prejuízo de despedir alguém agora. Nós já estamos com menos funcionários do que deveríamos.

Vocabulário: To Get Rid Of, To Lose, Contract, To Meet The Deadline, To Overreact, Understaffed

Palavra-chave: To Afford

Gramática: Prefix

Categorias: business, dealing with the boss, Head office

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Por: Tamara

Did you enjoy the lesson? Now it's time to practice! Send us a comment with a sentence using a word formed with one of the prefixes you learned today.

Por: PGregory em 27/11/2009 às 11:14h

Yesterday I was working in my computer and I see that my anti-virus are disable. When I turn it on, I had only 27 virus on my system! Damn!

Por: eduardopeixoto em 27/11/2009 às 11:36h

Eu acho que você deveria dizer “I saw that my anti-virus was disable”. Good luck with the virus thing, Paulo. Here on my job I have to deal with virus and bugs the all day long...

Por: PGregory em 27/11/2009 às 11:41h

You're right Edu.
The past of "see" = saw! I got it! Thanks for helping me.

Por: Ash em 27/11/2009 às 12:16h

Na verdade, o mais certo é: "I saw that my ant-virus was disabled."

Por: Ash em 27/11/2009 às 12:23h

Você estava trabalhando dentro do seu computador, PGregory? Hmmm, I think you were working on your computer. rsrs

Por: gmangold em 03/06/2010 às 17:33h

Hi there I think you must say "and I must bug them all day long" Is it right Teacher?

Por: wribeiro em 27/11/2009 às 11:25h

I loved this lesson! There's a lot of examples and some great expressions, especially 'to get rid of someone'... so good and useful!

Por: eduardopeixoto em 27/11/2009 às 11:39h

you scares me, Wellington

Por: Tamara em 27/11/2009 às 11:49h

Eduardo- You scare me. He scares me. Abs.

Por: eduardopeixoto em 27/11/2009 às 11:53h

uops... such a stupid mistake... thanks, Tamara

Por: Ash em 27/11/2009 às 12:25h

Yes, there's are a lot of examples in this lesson, wribeiro. I'm glad you liked it!

Por: eduardopeixoto em 27/11/2009 às 11:34h

Good lesson, Tamara. It was very easy to understand the prefix concept.

Por: Tamara em 27/11/2009 às 11:48h

Great, Eduardo! Enjoy the lesson!

Por: genilton em 02/12/2009 às 12:22h

Hi Tamara! I'm very curious about the sentence sent by eduardopeixoto. In the word "understand", is under a prefix that changes the meaning of the word stand? or is it not?

Por: genilton em 02/12/2009 às 12:26h

Now, my sentence using prefix:
Overcontrol is not a desired behavior when it comes to relationships between parents and kids.

Por: Josh em 02/12/2009 às 14:49h

Hey, Genilton. Unfortunately, some words just can't use the prefix "over-", like in this case here. However, a couple of adjectives that might work in this case could be: "To be overbearing ..." (dominating, autocratic, tyrannical, despotic, oppressive) or "to be overpowering ..."(oppressive, unbearable, unendurable, intolerable).

Por: genilton em 02/12/2009 às 16:34h

Hello Josh! Thanks for your comments.
I had found this word in the site "Signs of Overcontrol" (http://www.controllingparents.com/Signs.htm). Is it wrong?
After reading your comment, I did search the internet and found many other sites but I don't know if they are reliable:
- http://www.woxikon.com.br/ingles/overcontrol.php
- http://www.springerlink.com/content/x2g6w8062110t392/
- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/overcontrol

Por: Josh em 03/12/2009 às 11:13h

Well, Genilton, this just goes to show you how versatile the English language is. "Overcontrol" is not in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary or the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. But, as you've clearly shown, it is widely used, even in the New York Times. All I have to say is well done. Great research on your part. On my part, "overcontrol" is one of those words that just doesn't sound right to me! Thanks for the participation and definitely keep it up!

Por: Ash em 03/12/2009 às 11:01h

I don't think Jim was underestimated at all. If you are someone who continually can't meet deadlines then you should either be demoted or fired. When contracts are lost, money is lost and the employee responsible for that loss needs to pay the consequences! (When someone is underestimated it means that he or she has wonderful qualities that other people are unable to see.)

Por: edna.candido em 21/12/2009 às 20:31h

Some teachers in our country are underqualified, maybe because they are underpaid.

Por: Josh em 22/12/2009 às 10:32h

Wow! Not only is your sentence perfect, it is also a very accurate observation. Well done!

Por: Cammi em 07/01/2010 às 02:23h

First of all being a teacher is about LOVE... Otherwise this occupation would have already been extincted in Brazil Lol... UNDERstand me? Another I like... Undercontrol (doubt undercontrol or under control??)

Por: Ash em 07/01/2010 às 10:44h

Everything is under control.
Here it's not used as a prefix because there is no "lack" of control or too little control, but quite the opposite, "total" control.
For example, something that is underrated is rated too low, underestimated.

Por: Cammi em 07/01/2010 às 14:35h

Exactly as I had thought, tks for ur help, ALWAYS great!

Por: Cammi em 07/01/2010 às 02:38h

Now I got myself in another doubt after doing all the lesson... so there is a topic in the lab saying underrated= subestimar and as I know (too) underestimate, so I can use both, Is there any special use???

Por: Ash em 07/01/2010 às 10:49h

Well, it's not exactly a rule, but you'll find that we normally underestimate people, or things related to humans (the mind for example), and we underrate things, like a film or a book.

Por: goldani em 09/02/2010 às 16:18h

The education in the underdeveloped countries don't have the importance that it is necessary. I beleive it. If people have a good education they will have a better life.

Por: monicabic em 09/02/2010 às 17:35h

I totally agree with you, education doesn't have the deserved (merecida) importance.

Por: goldani em 10/02/2010 às 21:14h

Hello Mônica! Thank you for your comments. So, The education in the underdeveloped countries doesn't have the deserved importance.

Por: sandrorc em 25/03/2010 às 22:11h

I think that I'm underpaid. But if I'd paid as my wife thinks, I'd be overpaid.

Por: Josh em 26/03/2010 às 11:53h

I laughed out loud when I read your comment, Sandro. There is only one little mistake in your sentence: "But if I were paid like my wife thinks (I should be), I'd be overpaid." Good job. You can also say: "But if I got paid like my wife thinks..."

Por: #fernando# em 05/04/2010 às 13:01h

She overreact when she saw him.

He thinks that him is underpaid

Por: Josh em 05/04/2010 às 13:08h

Your first sentence is great. Explain what you mean by "overreact" so I know that you understood what it means, ok? Your second sentence needs a tiny correction: "He thinks that he is underpaid." Do you see?

Por: rodriguezmaf em 15/04/2010 às 21:47h

The companies often works understaffed nowadays.

Por: monicabic em 16/04/2010 às 18:38h

Yes, it's an international reality in my point of view. By the way: the companies work, ok?

Por: gmangold em 03/06/2010 às 19:07h

Our soccer Stadiums will be underdeveloped at the World Cup that will be played in Brazil in 2014. So, we must get rid of our incompetent politician.

Por: dila.bg em 09/07/2010 às 11:18h

The class was nice!
I don't understand because women are overpaid in Brazil.

Por: Josh em 09/07/2010 às 11:54h

You don't understand why women are overpaid in Brazil? Are they really?

Por: Priscila em 13/07/2010 às 09:50h

Why people love the word "overrated"?

Por: saddhucool em 27/07/2010 às 20:24h

I disagree that this setence is correct: "This movie didn't do as well as it should. It's definitely underrated." For me the correct should be overrated. What you thing?

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