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Sejam bem-vindos e bem-vindas a mais um epis\u00f3dio da nossa nova s\u00e9rie de podcasts, o Fluency News! Aqui, voc\u00ea vai treinar a sua escuta e ficar por dentro do que est\u00e1 acontecendo no mundo, sempre com as tr\u00eas principais not\u00edcias da semana, tudo em ingl\u00eas! Ao longo do epis\u00f3dio, n\u00f3s tamb\u00e9m adicionamos explica\u00e7\u00f5es em portugu\u00eas das coisas que achamos que precisam de mais aten\u00e7\u00e3o, assim voc\u00ea n\u00e3o perde nenhum detalhe!<\/p>\n
No epis\u00f3dio desta semana, n\u00f3s falamos sobre os resultados das confer\u00eancias G-20 e COP26, sobre a suposta agress\u00e3o de rep\u00f3rteres brasileiros pelo time de seguran\u00e7a de Jair Bolsonaro e sobre a opera\u00e7\u00e3o em Minas Gerais contra um grupo criminoso que deixou pelo menos 25 mortos. Tamb\u00e9m falamos sobre o primeiro santu\u00e1rio de baleias na Am\u00e9rica do Norte.<\/p>\n
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Toda semana temos um novo epis\u00f3dio do Fluency News, n\u00e3o deixe de escutar! See you!<\/em><\/p>\n Este epis\u00f3dio foi escrito por L\u00edvia Pond.<\/p>\n What is up, everyone! Welcome to another episode of Fluency News! I\u2019m Scott Lowe, one of your English teachers here at Fluency Academy, and I\u2019m thrilled that you\u2019re joining me today.<\/p>\n Every week we get together to talk about some of the most relevant stories of the week, and we take some time to learn a new thing or two. For that learning moment, you\u2019ll hear me speaking a little Portuguese, to make sure you understand everything we\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n You\u2019ll find all of our sources in the description, and you can read the transcript of this episode by going to fluency.io. Now, without further ado, let\u2019s get started!<\/p>\n Last week, we talked about the COP26 and the changes some countries wanted to make in the reports. Well, the summit took place this past weekend, and there are some points that are worth talking about.<\/p>\n Before the summit in Glasgow, a meeting between leaders of the world\u2019s 20 biggest economies (G-20) took place in Rome. They endorsed a global minimum tax aimed at stopping big businesses from hiding profits in tax havens, and agreed to get more Covid vaccines to poorer nations. They also committed to stronger action than ever before to limit global warming, but failed to strike a deal on phasing out coal. Only 12 of the 20 countries committed to be carbon-neutral by 2050.<\/p>\n The result of the leaders of the world’s top economies was being watched closely from the COP26 U.N. climate summit, which was beginning in Glasgow, Scotland at the same time as the deal was concluded.<\/p>\n \u201cThe decisions we make today will have a direct impact on the success of the Glasgow summit and, ultimately, on our ability to tackle<\/strong> the climate crisis,\u201d Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, the G20 host, told leaders.<\/p>\n Speaking from Glasgow, Alok Sharma, the U.K. minister who is president of COP26, said he was “cautiously hopeful about what I\u2019m hearing from Rome \u2026 I know discussions haven\u2019t been easy.”<\/p>\n The result of G20 leaves space for a major fight over which countries need to raise their climate targets during this decade and by how much. Europe and the U.S. have put pressure on China and India throughout the buildup to COP26. But Beijing and New Delhi have responded by saying that the onus is on wealthy countries to do more.<\/p>\n With the world warming because of fossil fuel emissions caused by humans, scientists warn that urgent action is needed to avoid a climate catastrophe.<\/p>\n The G20 bloc, which includes Brazil, China, India, Germany and the United States, accounts for an estimated 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions, but hopes the Rome meeting might pave the way to success in Scotland have dimmed considerably.<\/p>\n Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin both decided to follow events only via video link and diplomats looking to seal a meaningful accord said both countries, as well as India, were resisting ambitious new climate goals.<\/p>\n A palavra <\/em>tackle <\/strong>\u00e9 um verbo que pode significar \u201cenfrentar\u201d, \u201cresolver algo\u201d. Essa palavra tamb\u00e9m descreve uma manobra do futebol americano, que descreve o ato de segurar fisicamente ou levar um oponente ao ch\u00e3o. Como o futebol americano \u00e9 um dos esportes mais conhecidos e famosos nos Estados Unidos, o significado da palavra pode ser identificado pelo contexto. Se <\/em>tackle <\/strong>puder ser substitu\u00eddo por <\/em>\u201ctry\u201d,<\/strong> \u201cundertake\u201d<\/strong> ou <\/em>\u201cdeal with\u201d,<\/strong> significa \u201cresolver\u201d ou \u201clidar\u201d. Se tiver uma conota\u00e7\u00e3o f\u00edsica, \u00e9 a manobra do esporte.<\/em><\/p>\n Still staying on topic of the summits, Brazilian reporters were allegedly attacked by Jair Bolsonaro’s security detail while they were covering the president’s trip to Rome for the G20 summit, according to local media.<\/p>\n Bolsonaro has had a hostile relationship with the press and has long accused journalists of publishing fake news and treating him unfairly.<\/p>\n The alleged attacks took place as the far-right president was out on the streets of the Italian capital on Sunday, meeting some Brazilians dressed in the national team shirts.<\/p>\n Videos of the incident recorded by reporters showed the bodyguards jostling with the journalists, pushing them out of the street, while Bolsonaro took selfies and talked to his supporters.<\/p>\n One of the videos taken by UOL journalist Jamil Chade showed chaotic scenes of the security staff shoving him as supporters of the president chanted abuses at reporters.<\/p>\n A security officer twisted his arm and snatched away his phone with which he had recorded the attacks, Chade told news agency EFE. The officer threw the phone on the ground after being scolded by other reports on the scene.<\/p>\n Broadcast journalist Leonardo Monteiro of TV Globo was punched in the stomach and pushed by one of the bodyguards after asking Bolsonaro why he didn’t attend any G20 events on Sunday, newspaper O Globo reported.<\/p>\n It wasn’t clear whether<\/strong> the bodyguards, dressed in civilian clothes, were Brazilian or Italian.<\/p>\n Ana Estela De Sousa, Europe correspondent of the Brazilian daily Folha de S.Paulo said she was “pushed and brutally treated” by the officers.<\/p>\n “In the past 20 years that I have been covering trips of presidents and events of this type, nothing like this has ever happened to me.”<\/p>\n The Brazilian president was not part of the photo of G20 leaders taken at the Trevi Fountain, and videos from the events showed him as an isolated figure. The far-right president didn\u2019t attend the COP26 Climate Change summit either.<\/p>\n Voc\u00ea sabe qual \u00e9 a diferen\u00e7a entre <\/em>whether <\/strong>e <\/em>if<\/strong>? Ambas significam “se”, mas \u00e9 prefer\u00edvel usar <\/em>whether<\/strong> quando temos expl\u00edcitas as alternativas de escolha. <\/em>“If”<\/strong> \u00e9 mais usado quando temos uma inten\u00e7\u00e3o de condi\u00e7\u00e3o. \u00c9 poss\u00edvel usar as duas palavras na maioria das frases, mas <\/em>whether <\/strong>foca nas op\u00e7\u00f5es de escolha. No caso dessa hist\u00f3ria, usamos <\/em>whether<\/strong> porque queremos focar que n\u00e3o \u00e9 claro se o time de seguran\u00e7as do presidente brasileiro era da It\u00e1lia ou do Brasil.<\/em><\/p>\n Since we talked about the Brazilian president, let\u2019s take a look at what happened in Brazil on Sunday, October 31st, in the state of Minas Gerais.<\/p>\n Police have killed at least 25 suspects in a warlike operation against a heavily armed criminal gang. The unprecedented sting marked a violent escalation in the country\u2019s ongoing struggle against criminal groups staging elaborate bank heists.<\/p>\n The alleged criminals were gunned down<\/strong> in the south-eastern state of Minas Gerais, where police claimed they had been poised to unleash an attack.<\/p>\n \u201cThis operation \u2026 will go down in history,\u201d the Minas Gerais state security secretary, Rog\u00e9rio Greco, told local radio.<\/p>\n Police said the group, which had holed up in two locations in Varginha, opened fire on them shortly after their arrival Sunday morning.<\/p>\n \u201cOur idea was to make arrests, but from the moment they recognized our presence, the fight started,\u201d Aristides Amaral Junior, a highway police spokesperson, told reporters: \u201cThey had weapons of war. Tons of gasoline, explosives.\u201d<\/p>\n The federal highway police, which took part in the mission, said the group had \u201ca veritable military arsenal\u201d including assault rifles, .50-caliber machine guns, explosives and bulletproof vests.<\/p>\n Police claimed that those killed on Sunday had been plotting similar assaults to those that happened in December 2020 and this past August, before they were tracked down.<\/p>\n \u201cMinas Gerais is most certainly not a good place to commit crime,\u201d said Greco, congratulating the security forces for their \u201csensational\u201d actions.<\/p>\n Last year police killed more than 6,400 people, the overwhelming majority young black men. Almost 200 police officers were killed, a 10% rise compared with the previous year.<\/p>\n Nessa hist\u00f3ria, n\u00f3s temos um exemplo de frases estruturadas usando a <\/em>voz passiva<\/em><\/strong>. Voc\u00ea pode encontr\u00e1-la marcada em negrito, na descri\u00e7\u00e3o deste epis\u00f3dio em fluency.io. A voz passiva \u00e9 \u00fatil para alguns contextos nos quais o que realmente importa n\u00e3o \u00e9 quem fez a a\u00e7\u00e3o do verbo, mas quem recebeu a a\u00e7\u00e3o. Quando falamos em voz ativa e voz passiva, estamos nos referindo \u00e0 estrutura de frases, ou seja, \u00e0 ordem das palavras.<\/em><\/p>\n Frases na<\/em> active voice<\/strong> (voz ativa) s\u00e3o aquelas em que o sujeito que pratica a a\u00e7\u00e3o est\u00e1 em evid\u00eancia, j\u00e1 em frases na passive voice (voz passiva), o objeto que recebe a a\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e9 que est\u00e1 em evid\u00eancia. Como a maioria das hist\u00f3rias relata acontecimentos e n\u00e3o necessariamente pessoas, \u00e9 muito comum que essa linguagem esteja presente em not\u00edcias, e no linguajar jornal\u00edstico.<\/em><\/p>\n O que fazemos na voz passiva \u00e9 enfatizar quem ou o que recebeu determinada a\u00e7\u00e3o. Para isso, usamos <\/em>verb to be + past participle<\/strong> do verbo seguinte.<\/em><\/p>\n Let\u2019s end today\u2019s episode with some good news, shall we? The first North American whale sanctuary is taking shape in Nova Scotia, Canada.<\/p>\n The Whale Sanctuary Project, the first wild refuge for whales retired from marine parks, is expected to officially open its visitor and operations center in Sherbrooke, N.S.<\/p>\n The new center has been built in a renovated century home on the main street in Sherbrooke, a former timber and gold-mining town about 200 kilometers northeast of Halifax.<\/p>\n Greg Wier, the warden of the rural municipality that includes Sherbrooke, said the public wants to see whales in their natural environment rather than in captivity. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of public outcry for these whales being held in little pens,\u201d he said in an interview this week.<\/p>\n The proposed 40-hectare, coastal sanctuary \u2013 to be enclosed by large underwater nets \u2013 is expected to be built next year. It will be as large as 50 Canadian football fields and about 300 times larger than the biggest tank in any marine park.<\/p>\n The refuge could welcome its first whales in early 2023, assuming the project gets the required federal and provincial permits, said Charles Vinick, the project\u2019s executive director. It is designed to accommodate up to eight beluga whales, which he said can\u2019t be returned to the open ocean because of their lack of survival skills.<\/p>\n The non-profit group has started a campaign to raise up to $20-million for the project, which also calls for the construction of a veterinary clinic and interpretation center near the refuge. Another $2-million would be needed annually for operations. The group is not asking for government funds.<\/p>\n About 200 belugas and 50 orcas are being kept in marine parks and aquariums around the world, though precise figures have been difficult to come by since entrepreneurs in China started building marine parks and importing whales from Russia. The Marineland Park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, has about 40 belugas and Canada\u2019s lone captive killer whale, Kiska.<\/p>\n Public attitudes toward keeping these highly intelligent and socially complex animals in captivity have changed as researchers have learned more about their lives.<\/p>\n The world\u2019s first whale sanctuary opened in southern Iceland in 2019. The Sea Life Trust has two belugas from China \u2013 Little Grey and Little White.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s where we\u2019re going to end today\u2019s episode, folks.<\/p>\n Se voc\u00ea quiser ter aulas com os melhores experts em flu\u00eancia de idiomas do mundo, se inscreva na nossa lista de espera! Assim voc\u00ea vai ficar sabendo quando abrirem novas vagas nas turmas de ingl\u00eas, espanhol, franc\u00eas, italiano, alem\u00e3o, japon\u00eas e mandarim. Para n\u00e3o ficar de fora, aperte o link na descri\u00e7\u00e3o desse epis\u00f3dio e fa\u00e7a a sua inscri\u00e7\u00e3o 100% gratuita.<\/em><\/p>\n There\u2019s a new episode every week, and we\u2019ll be waiting for you. Peace out.<\/p>\n Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n G20 and CPO26 summits Reporters attacked by Bolsonaro’s security agents in Rome<\/strong> Brazilian police kill 25 suspects allegedly part of bank robbery gangEpisode Transcript<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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