Nível Fluente › The Legend of St. Nicholas
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- Understand the use of inverting the verb in sentences
- Understand different uses of the word "trace"
At the end of this lesson you'll be able to:
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Vocabulário:
a large and special meal for many people, a popular story handed down from earlier times which may or may not be true, money or property brought by a bride to her husband at marriage, a movement in time or duration of time, to start to have a direct and noticeable effect on something, a picture printed onto paper from a piece of wood or metal into which the design has been cut, to discover the cause or origin of something by examining the way in which it has developed -
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Categorias:
feriados, textos, cultura
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INVERSION
Dialog: "Much admired for his piety and kindness, St. Nicholas became the subject of many legends."
Inversion is when we change the word order of a phrase so that the verb comes before the subject. A question is the simplest example of how we use inversion in everyday English. However, the use of a verb at the beginning of a sentence is more formal, and therefore found more in written English than in Spoken English.
- Had the rain not been so heavy the flight would not have been delayed.
- Much respected by all the students and faculty, Professor Hutchins was given a banquet in his honor.
- On New Year's eve, as the crowd at Times Square counted, ten, nine, eight, seven....down went the ball.
- Well hidden under her bed were all the diaries she'd kept over the years.
Sobre esta aula
Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas! Without a doubt the first thing that pops into an American child's mind when he or she hears those words is, Santa Claus. In some languages he's called Father Christmas, in some, Old Man Christmas. Let's face it, he's world renowned, but where did he come from? In this lesson you'll learn about the origins of this beloved figure.
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