O dia 22 de abril é o Dia da Terra (Earth Day), esse dia foi criado com o objetivo de chamar a atenção do mundo para a intensificação dos cuidados relacionados ao meio ambiente e a necessidade de preservá-lo. Confira abaixo o incrível vídeo produzido pela BBC de Londres e logo após o texto escrito pela americana Mary Ziller sobre o tema.

Today is a day to commemorate our love for the Earth: *Earth Day. In Brazil it is called Dia da Terra. In the town where I used to work, Narberth, they celebrate by having a garden show. The call it NarbEARTH Day. The prettiest properties in the town are put on display in a self-guided walking tour. The gardens feature beautiful flowers and trees in bloom and artistic landscaping. Some yards even have fish ponds, and ornamental rock gardens.Today they will be planting beach grass at Island Beach State Park in New Jersey and cleaning up the beach. The beach grass will help stem (stop) further erosion of the sand dunes. I went to Island beach State Park yesterday and took the nature trail walk and bird watching tour. (Mary Ziller from USA)

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I have been talking about the different kinds of talk in English like pep talks and small talk. Other expressions involving the word talk are:idle talk: gossip, nonsensical banter, irrelevant and foolish chatter;

crazy talk: uttering illogical irrational statements or trying to justify unreasonable ideas that will fail have a negative or injurious outcome);

silly talk: funny, whimsical patter that makes children giggle;

victory talk: politicians talking about winning elections or wars;

trash talk: Someone is trash talking when he tries to intimidate his opponent during a game using insults and boasts–definition courtesy of Gustavo;

back talk: talking back to your parents or other authorities, disagreeing with an authority figure in a disrespectful tone. Usage: “Don’t give me any back talk” or “don’t give me any lip”.

Parents want to talk sense into their children, when they want to set them straight or dissuade them from making a wrong choice.

When parents and teachers give their children a talking to, they are scolding them (reprimanding, lecturing them).

When you talk down to someone, you are patronizing them (being condescending) or using a lower level of language so that they will more easily understand you.

When you talk someone up you are praising them or trying to sell someone on them.

Although “small talk” ( cocktail conversation) exists in the lexicon, I thought there is no such corresponding concept of “big talk.”

But I stand corrected. Tio Google turned up such collocations as “He talks a big talk, but doesn’t deliver” and “big talk among small systems,” which I admit sound perfectly logical to me. Live and learn. (It’s a large lexicon out there, but hey, someone’s got to catalogue it).

Beijinhos,

Mary

In my most recent posts I have been talking about different kinds of talk we engage in. There are some verbal expressions involving the word talk and an adjective or adverb.To sweet talk someone is to flatter them and say nice things in order to manipulate them in some way. When a person is in the wrong and gets caught, he may try to sweet talk his way out of the negative consequences. “Don’t try to sweet talk me” is a standard response when the person who was wronged does not want to be charmed into forgetting about his or her injury. A man may try to sweet talk a woman (feed her sentimental or flattering pick-up lines) to get a date.

Fast talking is talking slick, using smooth lines to persuade or convince or mislead or get (obtain) something. Salesmen are accused of fast talking potential customers to boost sales. Usage: “He tried to fast talk me into making a deal that I didn’t want because it was not in my best interest.”

Baby talk is gaa, gaa, goo, goo or speech that imitates the way babies sound when they try to communicate (emerging developmental speech sounds). Baby talk is also called motherese when used by adults addressing infants and is sometimes used between lovers affectionately.

Girl talk conversation that interests women. We talk about make-up, fashion, life issues such as menopause, raising children, and even men.

Happy talk according to wikipedia is the upbeat commentary that news anchors use during news broadcasts to transition from one news story to the next. Last night on the news I heard them mention “happy talk” as a synonym for politicians putting a “positive spin” on negative events.

Double talk is meaningless, ambiguous verbalizing used by politicians and salesmen to distract or impress potential clients or constituents.

Beijinhos,

Mary