NEW VOCABULARY





Vamos construir um glossário de palavras e expressões em inglês que forem encontradas durante a elaboração do trabalho e a leitura de textos sobre o eDay.

35 comentários:

  1. Environment - Meio ambiente.
    Frase - Recycling electronic waste (e-waste) enables the recovery and reuse of valuable materials and ensures toxic materials are not buried in our landfills - so it's better for our environment.

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  2. Recycling-Reciclagem
    Frase-Recycling electronic waste (e-waste) enables the recovery and reuse of valuable materials and ensures toxic materials are not buried in our landfills - so it's better for our environment.

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  3. e-waste - lixo eletronico
    frase- to pormote best practice in recycling of e-waste.

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  4. Environmentally-ambientalmente
    Frase-eDay is a drive-through recycling event which gives you the opportunity to recycle old computers or mobile phones in an environmentally sound way.

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  5. hazardous = perigosos.
    Frase: Computer equipment can also contain hazardous materials.

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  6. landfilling - deposição em aterro
    Frase : The problem is that landfilling stores the waste rather than allowing for recovery and reuse of valuable materials.

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  7. Launched: lançado

    Frase: The event was launched in Wellington in 2006 with an extremely successful pilot sponsored by Dell.

    by Lucas Moura.

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  8. awareness: sensibilização

    Frase: eDay is a community initiative designed to raise awareness of the benefits of recycling computers

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  9. Recovery: Recuperação


    Frase: Recycling electronic waste (e-waste) enables the recovery and reuse of valuable materials and ensures toxic materials are not buried in our landfills - so it's better for our environment.

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  10. valuable = valiosos
    Frase: Reciclagem de lixo eletrônico (e-waste) permite a recuperação e reutilização de materiais valiosos e garante materiais tóxicos não são enterrados em nossos aterros - por isso é melhor para o nosso meio ambiente.

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  12. Recycling electronic-Reciclagem de lixo eletrônico

    Frase:Recycling electronic waste (e-waste) enables the recovery and reuse of valuable materials and ensures toxic materials are not buried in our landfills - so it's better for our environment.

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  13. landfill=aterro

    Frase: There are concerns about it being sent to ladfills because of toxic materials inside, like lead and mercury.

    Juarez

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  14. upgrade=atualizaçao


    It's better to repair or upgrade your equipment, rather than replace it with something new

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  15. it became = se transformou

    Frase: Dismantled, it became a series of works that express the youths' creativity and talent.

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  16. residuo eletrÔnico = electronic waste

    Electronic waste already represent 5% of all waste produced by mankind. That means 50 million tonnes are thrown away every year by the world's population.

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  17. Miraculous - milagroso

    The following paragraphs will show you the evolution of this miraculous machine.

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  18. Learning ->Apredizagem


    "When I'm in class, I'm happy to see that I'm learning to mix these things that help improve the world," he said.

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  19. ELECTRONIC CURRENLY > Dispositivos eletronicos


    A 2006 report titled e-Waste in New Zealand: taking responsibility for end-of-life computers and TVs prepared by the Computer Access NZ Trust estimated that there are 16 million ELECTRONIC devices CURRENTLY in use in New Zealand, including 10 million cathode ray tubes (CRTs), and with nearly one million being added each year.

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  20. environmentally friendly - ecológicamente correto

    ...which will give people a chance of old computer and cell phones in a environmentally friendly way.

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  21. growing - crescente
    rubbish - lixo

    Eletronic waste is the fastest growing type of rubbish in the world.

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  22. =)

    Good work! Só para lembrá-los... a postagem de uma palavra sobre o eDay de New Zealand...e essa semana a postagem de novo vocabulário do artigo sobre e-Waste X Brazil...

    Estou sentindo a falta da participação de alguns students da turma... kd as postagens do Seu João?? Por favor, lembrem os colegas do trabalho do Blog.

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  23. partnership = parceria

    The project is part of the Brazilian Programme for Digital Inclusion and emerged from a PARTNERSHIP between the Ministry of Planning and the Marist Network for Education and Solidarity, part of the Roman Catholic order of Marist Brothers.

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  24. toxic = tóxico

    frase = e-waste is the fastest growing type of waste in the world and is more toxic than normal household rubbish.

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  25. rebuild = reconstruir


    As in the others, CRC of Porto Alegre is located in a poor suburb. There, 88 young people from low-income families receive a scholarship that allows them to learn to dismantle, recondition, adapt and rebuild equipment, install free software, and programme and configure computers.

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  26. appointed- nomeados

    The recycling of the computer equipment to be collected this year will be managed under an agreement between the Ministry for the Environment and an external recycler, who is still to be appointed.

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  27. Overseeing- Supervisionar

    The Ministry for the Environment will be overseeing this process; they will have a have a contract with the selected recycling provider, that will include reporting and monitoring requirements.

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  29. Disposed of = Descartado / Eliminado

    "In 2008, there were 12 million computers sold in this country. That means that in two or three years they will need to be disposed of."
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    "Em 2008, houve a venda de 12 milhões de computadores neste país (Brasil). Isso significa que em dois ou três anos eles precisarão ser descartados."

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  30. Everything - tudo

    frase = Everything that arrives at CRC is put to use. Many pieces that cannot be repaired are dismantled and are studied in the robotics classes - the world of Vasconcelos.

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  32. scholarship = bolsa de estudos

    frase: With the scholarship money he is paying for his studies in electrical engineering at the university.

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  33. Scrap=sucata

    The elotronics scrap finish is revoved for sanitary embankment.

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  34. Attuned - Atento
    Attuned to the debates about green computer technologies.

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