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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 a crise na fronteira entre a Pol\u00f4nia e a Bielorr\u00fasia, sobre o navio com mais de 800 imigrantes que finalmente aportou na It\u00e1lia e sobre as emiss\u00f5es de CO2 aumentando novamente. N\u00f3s tamb\u00e9m falamos sobre a mulher lutando contra o Talib\u00e3 usando a educa\u00e7\u00e3o.<\/em><\/p>\n N\u00f3s temos uma nova p\u00e1gina de dicas de ingl\u00eas no Instagram, v\u00e1 conferir! @fluencytvingles<\/p>\n Toda semana temos um novo epis\u00f3dio do Fluency News, n\u00e3o deixe de escutar! See you!<\/p>\n Este epis\u00f3dio foi escrito por L\u00edvia Pond.<\/p>\n What is up, guys! How are you doing today? I\u2019m Scott Lowe, and you\u2019re listening to Fluency News, Fluency Academy\u2019s news podcast series. Here we share some of the world\u2019s most relevant stories of the week, and we learn a bit more about unique structures and expressions of the English language.<\/p>\n Before we dive in, let me just remind you to head over to fluency.io, to have access to the transcript of this episode and all of our sources. There you\u2019ll also find over a thousand free lessons, in seven different languages! Alright, now let\u2019s get started.<\/p>\n Poland has increased security along its border with Belarus and accused Minsk of encouraging migrants from the Middle East and Africa to cross into the European Union, in revenge for Western sanctions on longtime President Alexander Lukashenko.<\/p>\n Belarusian authorities have escorted an estimated 1,000 people to the Polish border in an escalation of a deadly crisis that has already left people trapped between borders and at least eight dead due to exposure.<\/p>\n The developments appeared to signal an escalation of a crisis that has been rumbling for months.<\/p>\n Lukashenko, who launched a crackdown on dissent in Belarus after winning a sixth term in a disputed presidential election held in August last year, has repeatedly denied the EU accusations.<\/p>\n Videos published by Belarusian media on Monday showed armed Belarusian border guards in combat fatigues guiding the column of people, which included families with children, along a highway towards a forest that runs alongside Poland\u2019s Podlaskie region.<\/p>\n Video reports later showed a standoff<\/strong> at the border, where Polish border guards repeatedly used teargas to push people back as some in the crowd tried to cut through barbed wire or knock down border fencing to cross the border.<\/p>\n By evening, hundreds had set up tents and lit campfires in a forested border area, suggesting clashes could repeat themselves in coming days as Polish officials have vowed to prevent people from crossing into the country from Belarus.<\/p>\n A palavra <\/em>standoff<\/em><\/strong> \u00e9 bem usada quando estamos falando de todos os tipos de conflito. Ela significa \u201cimpasse\u201d, \u201cparalisa\u00e7\u00e3o\u201d ou \u201cempate\u201d. Quando dois grupos se enfrentam e nenhum lado est\u00e1 disposto a ceder, temos um <\/em>standoff. <\/em><\/strong>Essa palavra \u00e9 um substantivo , e pode ser escrita com ou sem um h\u00edfen entre \u201cstand\u201d e \u201coff\u201d. Esse substantivo pode ser usado para falar de guerras, conflitos civis, debates e em esportes, com o mesmo significado, diferindo apenas na intensidade do impasse. Outras palavras com o mesmo significado s\u00e3o \u201cdraw\u201d, \u201cimpasse\u201d, \u201cdeadlock\u201d e \u201cstalemate\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n Speaking of migrants, a German humanitarian ship with more than 800 rescued migrants, including 15 very young children, docked into a Sicilian port on Sunday after being granted permission by Italian authorities following days of waiting in the Mediterranean Sea.<\/p>\n The charity group Sea-Eye said the vessel Sea-Eye 4 was assigned to the port of Trapani, in western Sicily, on Saturday evening. Most of the adults were to be transferred to other ships for preventative quarantine against COVID-19, while some 160 minors, including babies and children younger than 4, were to be taken to shelters on land.<\/p>\n Many<\/strong> of the passengers came from countries in West Africa, Egypt or Morocco, said Giovanna di Benedetto, an official from Save the Children in Italy.<\/p>\n Shouts of joy from those aboard Sea-Eye 4 could be heard on Trapani\u2019s deck as the vessel drew near, SkyTG24 TV reported.<\/p>\n About half of the migrants were rescued from a sinking wooden boat on Nov. 4, while the other passengers had been plucked to safety from the sea in separate operations.<\/p>\n Sea-Eye officials lamented that Malta, a European Union island nation in the central Mediterranean, hadn\u2019t responded to the wooden boat\u2019s distress signal in its own search area.<\/p>\n On Saturday, Sea-Eye 4 received a delivery of food and blankets while it waited to learn where the migrants could land. Doctors aboard Sea-Eye 4 had treated 25 people for hypothermia, sea sickness and high blood pressure, along with injuries consistent with torture.<\/p>\n The number of migrants crossing the dangerous central Mediterranean has surged this year to more than 54,000.<\/p>\n Voc\u00ea sabe qual \u00e9 a diferen\u00e7a entre <\/em>many <\/em><\/strong>e <\/em>much<\/em><\/strong>? E a diferen\u00e7a entre <\/em>many<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>lots of<\/em><\/strong> ou <\/em>a lot of<\/em><\/strong>? \u201cMuch\u201d e <\/em>many<\/em><\/strong>, servem para falar de quantidades de alguma coisa. Essas palavras podem ser traduzidas para \u201cmuito\u201d, \u201cmuitos\u201d, \u201cmuita\u201d e \u201cmuitas\u201d. O uso vai depender do substantivo que vem logo depois: \u00e9 um substantivo cont\u00e1vel ou incont\u00e1vel? Se for algo que \u00e9 poss\u00edvel contar, como pessoas, animais, e objetos, usamos <\/em>many<\/em><\/strong>. Se for algo que n\u00e3o se pode contar individualmente, como dinheiro, l\u00edquidos e gr\u00e3os, usamos <\/em>much.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Many <\/em><\/strong>pode ser traduzido para \u201cmuitos\u201d e \u201cmuitas\u201d. \u201cA lot of\u201d e \u201clots of\u201d tamb\u00e9m podem ter essa mesma tradu\u00e7\u00e3o. Apesar de serem intercambi\u00e1veis \u00e0s vezes, \u00e9 preciso lembrar que <\/em>many<\/em><\/strong> s\u00f3 pode ser usado com substantivos cont\u00e1veis, enquanto \u201ca lot of\u201d e \u201clots of\u201d podem ser usados com cont\u00e1veis e incont\u00e1veis. Assim, tanto \u201cmany\u201d quanto \u201cmuch\u201d podem ser substitu\u00eddos por \u201ca lot of\u201d e \u201clots of\u201d, mas nem sempre \u00e9 poss\u00edvel fazer o contr\u00e1rio. Resumindo, se usa <\/em>many<\/em><\/strong> com coisas cont\u00e1veis e <\/em>much<\/em><\/strong> com coisas incont\u00e1veis. E <\/em>a lot of<\/em><\/strong> e <\/em>lots of<\/em><\/strong>, tanto faz, pode usar para os dois casos.<\/em><\/p>\n And now, in some environmental news, emissions of carbon dioxide are rising rapidly again.<\/p>\n Global carbon dioxide emissions have bounced back after the COVID-19 restrictions and are likely to reach close to pre-pandemic <\/strong>levels this year, an analysis has found.<\/p>\n The troubling finding comes as world leaders meet at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow in a last-ditch <\/strong>bid to keep dangerous global warming at bay. The analysis was undertaken by the Global Carbon Project, a consortium of scientists from around the world who produce, collect and analyze global greenhouse gas information.<\/p>\n The world\u2019s strong economic rebound has created a surge in demand for energy, and the global energy system is still heavily dependent on fossil fuels.<\/p>\n Most concerning is the long-term<\/strong> upward trends of CO\u2082 emissions from oil and gas, and this year\u2019s growth in coal emissions, which together are far from trending towards net-zero <\/strong>by 2050.<\/p>\n Emissions from global coal use were declining before the pandemic hit in early 2020, but they surged back this year. Emissions from global gas use have returned to the rising trend seen before the pandemic.<\/p>\n CO\u2082 emissions from global oil use remain well below pre-pandemic levels but are expected to increase in coming years as road transport and aviation recover from COVID-related restrictions.<\/p>\n Voc\u00ea sabe o que s\u00e3o <\/em>compound adjectives<\/em><\/strong>? S\u00e3o os adjetivos compostos, aqueles que apresentam mais de um elemento, mas que tem um sentido \u00fanico. Eles s\u00e3o f\u00e1ceis de identificar, porque s\u00e3o caracter\u00edsticas divididas por um h\u00edfen. Nessa hist\u00f3ria, que \u00e9 bem curtinha, n\u00f3s temos alguns exemplos, como <\/em>pre-pandemic<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>last-ditch<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>long-term <\/em><\/strong>e <\/em>net-zero<\/em><\/strong>. Apesar de ser comum que eles sejam duas palavras divididas por um h\u00edfen, eles podem ser formados por mais de dois elementos tamb\u00e9m. Se voc\u00ea procurar na gram\u00e1tica, vai ver que existem exce\u00e7\u00f5es para o uso do h\u00edfen. Alguns compound adjectives s\u00e3o \u201copen compound adjetives\u201d, o que significa que eles n\u00e3o s\u00e3o separados pelo tracinho, apenas posicionados um ao lado do outro, podendo ser duas ou mais palavras, ou juntas em uma \u00fanica palavra. \u00c9 poss\u00edvel criar <\/em>compound adjectives<\/em><\/strong> juntando dois adjetivos, um substantivo e um adjetivo, um verbo no partic\u00edpio do passado e um adjetivo e muitas outras op\u00e7\u00f5es.<\/em><\/p>\n And now, let\u2019s see some good and inspiring news! When the Taliban took power in Afghanistan, they instructed girls and young women to stay home from school. With no resolution in sight, a woman decided to act. Angela Ghayour’s online school now has nearly 1,000 students and more than 400 volunteer teachers.<\/p>\n Angela was just eight when civil war broke out across Afghanistan, in 1992. Her family fled from their home in Herat in the west of the country to Iran, and for the following five years Angela was unable to go to school – ineligible because of the family’s temporary visa status.<\/p>\n “It was quite common back then that Afghan children who had fled to Iran couldn’t go to school because they didn’t have the right documents,” Angela recalled.<\/p>\n After five years, Angela’s father finally managed to secure the right paperwork, and she was able to go to school in Iran. And aged just 13, she realized she had a calling.<\/p>\n Every day after school, Angela would return home and teach 14 other Afghan children, all of them unable to go to school.<\/p>\n Years later, after the Taliban was deposed from power, Angela returned to Afghanistan and qualified as a secondary school teacher, before moving to the Netherlands, and then finally to the UK.<\/p>\n Like many, Angela felt paralyzed watching events unfold in her home country over the past few months.<\/p>\n The Taliban swept into power, and in what seems like an instant, two-decades of progress in women’s education was put in jeopardy. The Taliban claim that their restrictions on women working and girls studying are “temporary” and only in place to ensure all workplaces and learning environments are “safe” for them.<\/p>\n Miserable from the thoughts that girls were once again deprived of education, she felt compelled to act. Angela founded the Online Herat School, an educational resource for Afghan women and girls. She posted on Instagram asking for help from any experienced teachers, and since that first post nearly 400 volunteers have joined the program. Via Telegram or Skype, they offer more than 170 different online classes in everything from math to music to cooking to painting. Most of the teachers are from Iran, and they work between two and eight hours a day.<\/p>\n “I feel this school is the result of all of my pain, my agonies and experiences,” said Angela.<\/p>\n “Our motto is: the pen instead of the gun.”<\/p>\n Together the volunteers support nearly 1,000 students.<\/p>\n In recent weeks, there has been some positive news for female students in the north of the country, where girls have returned to secondary schools in five of the country’s 34 provinces.<\/p>\n Young women in private universities, but not state run facilities have also been allowed to return.<\/p>\n Things are still looking grim in the country, but it seems like there is yet hope to be had.<\/p>\n And that is where we\u2019re going to end today\u2019s episode, folks.<\/p>\n Se voc\u00ea quiser ter aulas de qualquer um dos 7 idiomas que ensinamos – ingl\u00eas, espanhol, franc\u00eas, italiano, alem\u00e3o, japon\u00eas e mandarim – 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. Para n\u00e3o ficar de fora, \u00e9 s\u00f3 apertar o link na descri\u00e7\u00e3o deste epis\u00f3dio e fazer a sua inscri\u00e7\u00e3o 100% gratuita (s\u00f3 leva uns 15 segundinhos).<\/p>\n Remember, there\u2019s a new episode of Fluency News every week, and constant contact with the language you\u2019re learning is essential to guarantee your success, so we\u2019ll be waiting for you. See you soon! Peace out.<\/p>\n Stories:<\/strong><\/p>\n Poland ups security on Belarus border amid fears of major breach Italy: 800 migrants on board German rescue ship reach Sicilian port Despite dropping last year, global emissions are almost back to pre-pandemic levelsEpisode Transcript<\/h4>\n
\n\u200d<\/strong>https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/11\/8\/poland-ups-security-on-belarus-border-amid-fears-of-major-breach
\n\u200d<\/a>https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/08\/belarus-escorts-hundreds-of-migrants-towards-polish-border
\n\u200d<\/a>https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/poland-fears-major-incident-migrants-belarus-head-border-2021-11-08\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u200d<\/strong>https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/italy-800-migrants-on-board-german-rescue-ship-reach-sicilian-port\/a-59744534
\n\u200d<\/a>https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-11-07\/german-rescue-boat-with-800-migrants-aboard-heads-to-sicily
\n\u200d<\/a>https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/europe-migration-sicily-8b21e9e4d3cf5c8fb73e435e9546043e<\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u200d<\/strong>https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/despite-dropping-last-year-global-emissions-are-almost-back-to-pre-pandemic-levels\/1bbd50e1-a1a9-4326-9d33-df793e1c7aaa
\n\u200d<\/a>https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/global-co2-emissions-rebound-to-near-pre-pandemic-levels-study\/a-59715004<\/a><\/p>\n