Get at me

get at me


Short for "Get back to me" or "Get back at me", meaning "respond", or "reply".

e.g. "Mike, I hope you get this email in time. We are changing the plans from Friday to Saturday. Get at me and let me know if you can still make it."
 
source: urban dictionary

Quando você quer dizer que vai "fazer uma vaquinha" para comprar algo, em inglês você vai precisar de um phrasal verb para isso. E ele é o verbo:

to pitch in, (phrasal verb) = juntar forças com outros, ajudar, cooperar, contribuir (com a sua parte)

source: timandtammy teach

e.g.

We pitched in and bought Mary a nice gift.

Deixe suas frase abaixo para que você possa praticar esse mais novo verbo que você aprendeu!

Use your imagination!!!

There's only one picture here and you have to use your imagination to give your own answers about the dialog above!

a) Who are these people?

b) What's the big secret?

c) Is the woman keep it a secret?

Whose idea was the match?

Imagine a world without fire. Now, imagine a world without the match. It was only in the 19th century that English chemist and pharmacist John Walker accidentally came upon the idea of coating the end of a wooden stick with antimony sulfide, potassium chlorate, gum, and starch. Once the chemicals dried, he found he could start a fire just by striking the stick anywhere. He called his invention "Congreves" after the Congreve's rocket. On April 7,1827, Walker first sold his friction matches. Walker never patented the idea and someone else later marketed them as "lucifers."

source: answers.com
 
Is there any invention you could live without? Use your space to write them here and practice your English!!!
 
Márcio Barbosa

What's your goal???

We all have different kinds of goals in our lives! Some of us want to be a doctor, a lawyer, an English teacher, buy a new car, a new house, travel abroad!
And many times we do crazy things to make our dream come true! And you? What have you been doing to make your dream come true?

Write some lines here and let us know!!

Marcio Barbosa 

Where does the word 'boycott' come from?

In 1880, Charles Cunningham Boycott, born in 1832, was an estate agent of absentee landlord the Earl of Erne in County Mayo, Ireland. Because of the poor economic conditions and lackluster harvest at the time, members of the Tenants' Land League requested that their rent be lowered. Not only did Boycott refuse to reduce the rent, he also served eviction notices on the tenants. They didn't take kindly to Boycott's response. The tenants retaliated by isolating Boycott and his family in his local community. Neighbors shunned them, laborers refused to harvest the estate's crops, shopkeepers wouldn't sell to them; even the mailman declined to deliver mail to the family's home. The name Boycott became synonymous with the word "ostracize."

 

and you? Do you know the origin of any other word? Write it down!!