Macetes Para o Uso de In, At e On (Lugar)

Qual das três frases está correta:
a) I am in Main Street
b) I am on Main Street 
c) I am at Main Street?

Se você não sabe a resposta, as dicas de hoje são muito úteis. Você aprenderá macetes para empregar corretamente as preposições in, on e at para se referir a lugares.

Usos da preposição “IN”

 

Quando mencionar lugares que são maiores do que uma rua, use a preposição in.
Exemplos:
a) Recife is located in South America. (Continente > rua)
b) Recife is in Brazil. (País > rua)
c) Recife is in Pernambuco. (Estado > rua)
d) I lived in Recife. (Cidade > rua)

Usos da preposição “ON”

Quando mencionar rua e avenida, use a preposição on. Em outras palavras, quando mencionar nome de rua e avenida, use on.
Exemplos:
a) I was on New York Street.
b) The supermarket is on Rio Branco Avenue.
c) I am on Main Street.

Usos da preposição “AT”

Quando mencionar lugares que são menores do que uma rua, use a preposição at. A preposição at é usada para dizer exatamente onde alguém ou algo está.
Exemplos:
a) Ann is at 151 Main Street. (nº de casa < rua)
b) Ann and Paul were at the apartment 201. (nº de apartamento < rua)
c) Ann will be at 321 room. (nº de quarto < rua)

Exceção: quando mencionar andar (floor) de um prédio, use a preposição on.
Exemplos:
a) My apartment is on the 1st (first) floor.
b) She was on the 2nd (second) floor.
c) It’s on the fifth floor of the hospital.

Espero que você consiga responder corretamente a pergunta inicial agora.

See you!

Solidariedade em Ação: Yes, We Can!

Hoje a postagem não é sobre Inglês, mas sobre algo que estou participando e gostaria de compartilhar com vocês.

O que você faz com R$ 100,00 por ano?

Saiba que com apenas uma parcela de R$ 100,00 você pode apadrinhar uma criança durante o período de um ano letivo.
As crianças do bairro da Chamba, nos arredores da Cidade da Beira, em Moçambique, podem ter a oportunidade de receber uma educação diferenciada, basta você fazer uma doação de apenas R$ 100,00.
Com este valor você pagará as mensalidades de uma criança por um ano, e ainda mais, o aluno também receberá o uniforme.

A criança da foto é o Isaque Madane Ajape, meu "apadrinhado" e aluno da quinta série do Colégio Adventista da Chamba.

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Um detalhe importante: a instituição e as pessoas envolvidas nesse projeto são idôneas.

A Roupa dos Médicos

Você já pensou em como as roupas dos médicos podem estar contaminadas pelo contato direto com tantos pacientes por dia? O estudo abaixo foca esse ponto.
(Dr. Wagner, thank you very much!)

What Should Physicians Wear?


After 8 hours of wear, physicians' white coats and freshly laundered short-sleeved uniforms showed similar levels of bacterial contamination.

Evidence that physicians' white coats and other long-sleeved garments can be contaminated with bacteria including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has led British health authorities to ban such attire for clinicians. To examine the appropriateness of this action, researchers conducted a prospective trial in which they assessed bacterial contamination of physicians' clothing.

The study involved 100 internal medicine physicians at a Denver hospital in 2008 and 2009. These physicians were randomized to wear either their own white coats or newly laundered short-sleeved uniforms. Eight hours after the start of the workday, cultures were collected from multiple sites, including breast pockets, sleeve cuffs, and skin on the wrist of the dominant hand.

Levels of bacterial contamination were similar between the white coats and the newly laundered uniforms. In addition, the proportion of physicians with MRSA contamination of clothing or skin was similar between groups. The proportion varied somewhat among the culture sites, ranging from 6% at the mid-biceps area of the sleeve (white coats) to 18% at the breast pocket (uniforms). No correlation was seen between bacterial colony counts — or proportion of physicians with MRSA contamination — and self-reported frequency of laundering or changing of white coats.

Comment: This study did not directly address the question of whether physicians' clothing affects patients' risk for exposure to pathogens, but the findings do not suggest that clinicians need to change how they dress. That up to 18% of participants had MRSA cultured from the breast pockets of their clothing shows the ubiquity of this pathogen and highlights the need for further efforts in promoting hand hygiene.

Richard T. Ellison III, MD
Published in Journal Watch Infectious Diseases March 9, 2011

April Fool's Day

Em comemoração ao popular Dia da Mentira, vamos saber um pouco sobre como tal data surgiu:

"Unlike most of the other nonfoolish holidays, the history of April Fool's Day, sometimes called All Fool's Day, is not totally clear. It is not like Halloween, where despite an interesting history, most people just put on Halloween costumes, get candy, and leave it at that. There really wasn't a "first April Fool's Day" that can be pinpointed on the calendar. Some believe it sort of evolved simultaneously in several cultures at the same time, from celebrations involving the first day of spring.


The closest point in time that can be identified as the beginning of this tradition was in 1582, in France. Prior to that year, the new year was celebrated for eight days, beginning on March 25. The celebration culminated on April 1. With the reform of the calendar under Charles IX, the Gregorian Calendar was introduced, and New Year's Day was moved to January 1.
However, communications being what they were in the days when news traveled by foot, many people did not receive the news for several years. Others, the more obstinate crowd, refused to accept the new calendar and continued to celebrate the new year on April 1. These backward folk were labeled as "fools" by the general populace. They were subject to some ridicule, and were often sent on "fools errands" or were made the butt of other practical jokes.


This harassment evolved, over time, into a tradition of prank-playing on the first day of April. The tradition eventually spread to England and Scotland in the eighteenth century. It was later introduced to the American colonies of both the English and French. April Fool's Day thus developed into an international fun fest, so to speak, with different nationalities specializing in their own brand of humor at the expense of their friends and families.

In Scotland, for example, April Fool's Day is actually celebrated for two days. The second day is devoted to pranks involving the posterior region of the body. It is called Taily Day. The origin of the "kick me" sign can be traced to this observance.

Mexico's counterpart of April Fool's Day is actually observed on December 28. Originally, the day was a sad remembrance of the slaughter of the innocent children by King Herod. It eventually evolved into a lighter commemoration involving pranks and trickery.
Pranks performed on April Fool's Day range from the simple, (such as saying, "Your shoe's untied, or I accidentally stepped on your glasses!), to the elaborate. Setting a roommate's alarm clock back an hour is a common gag. Whatever the prank, the trickster usually ends it by yelling to his victim, "April Fool!"

Practical jokes are a common practice on April Fool's Day. Sometimes, elaborate practical jokes are played on friends or relatives that last the entire day. The news media even gets involved. For instance, a British short film once shown on April Fool's Day was a fairly detailed documentary about "spaghetti farmers" and how they harvest their crop from the spaghetti trees.

April Fool's Day is a "for-fun-only" observance. Nobody is expected to buy gifts or to take their "significant other" out to eat in a fancy restaurant. Nobody gets off work or school. It's simply a fun little holiday, but a holiday on which one must remain forever vigilant, for he may be the next April Fool!"