5 sites com tirinhas para praticar inglês

Humor é uma das coisas mais difíceis de entender em outras línguas, não só por envolver alguns aspectos culturais, mas também por que piadas e jogos de palavras, quando traduzidos, muitas vezes perdem o sentido. Mas de qualquer forma, aí vão 5 indicações de sites onde tem tirinhas em inglês. São leituras curtas e na maioria das vezes com a linguagem simples. Olha aí:



-O Phd Comics é um site de tirinhas sobre o mundo acadêmico. É perfeito para aqueles que estão no meio de um mestrado ou doutorado. http://phdcomics.com/

-O comic strip of the day tem uma tirinha nova a cada dia, então é legal dar uma conferida nele de tempos em tempos. http://www.comicstripoftheday.com/

-O go comics tem várias tirinhas famosas tipo, Calvin & Hobbes e Peanuts. Tem pra todos os gostos. http://www.gocomics.com/

- Tem o Hagar, the horrible, aquele viking que tem nas tirinhas de vários jornais por aqui. http://hagarthehorrible.com/

- E tem também o Garfield, o famoso gato preguiçoso. https://garfield.com/

Oscar Wilde Quotes

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 — 1900) foi um escritor irlandês, autor de O Retrato de Dorian Gray. Ele é conhecido por muitas frases espirituosas. Aí vão algumas:
''A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.''

''Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.''

''Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.''

''Biography lends to death a new terror.''

''Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.''

''Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.''

''I am not young enough to know everything.''

''I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.''

''If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.''

''It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.''

''Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.''

''Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.''

''One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.''

Tongue Twisters

Aí vão alguns tongue twisters (trava línguas).

She sells seashells by the seashore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
And chuck as much as a woodchuck would
If a woodchuck could chuck wood.

Betty bought some butter,
but the butter Betty bought was bitter,
so Betty bought some better butter,
and the better butter Betty bought
was better than the bitter butter Betty bought before!