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Gary the Dreamer by Gary Soto Illustrated by Elizabeth Gomez I was born in April,
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a month when it rains and rains.
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Maybe this is why when I was three years old, I liked to open my mouth and taste rain.
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Also, April is when flowers bloom, bees arrive out of nowhere.
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I lived in a small white house.
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My dog's name was Blackie.
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My cat's name was Boots.
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I had a canary just bigger than a big person's thumb.
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But my bird flew away when the little door of its cage was left open.
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So sorry, little canary, but I think it was me who left it open.
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I remember my high chair.
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I remember watching my parents and older brother at the dinner table.
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When I got a little bigger, I got to sit with them.
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Most mornings I ate oatmeal sprinkled with brown sugar.
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The sugar was like rocket energy.
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I blasted out of the house, ready to play.
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I played tag with the neighbor kids.
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I played hide-and-seek.
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I played catch with oranges.
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In our backyard we had an orange tree.
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We also had plum, lemon, and apple trees.
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Lucky me!
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Anytime I was hungry for a snack, I just went outside and picked a fruit.
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I didn't have many toys.
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My army men were pinto beans and pebbles.
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I played with them in the dirt.
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I got dirty from playing hard.
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It seemed like a giant pepper shaker had sprinkled me with dust.
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My favorite fruit was watermelon.
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After I ate a slice of watermelon, I ended up with seeds in my mouth.
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These seeds were my ammo to spit at my older brother.
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He would spit some back at me.
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It was sort of like a fun war.
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The seeds flew all over the place.
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In kindergarten, I learned my colors.
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I learned to tie my shoes and to be nice.
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I liked to sing, too.
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My brother said he could hear me from the next classroom.
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I made my first friend, Daryl.
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I made another friend, Jose.
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At recess, we went on the slide.
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It was like a big shiny spoon and slippery.
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Then we went on the swings.
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It was scary but fun going high and jumping out.
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Then we went on the monkey bars.
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If I fell, I never got hurt.
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In first grade, I practiced writing the alphabet.
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The letters were big and blocky.
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I wrote my name, G-A-R-Y.
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Some days my nice teacher would have to tell me, Gary, sit still.
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I wiggled a lot in my chair.
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I dreamed a lot.
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I was busy looking at the floor or my hands or out the window.
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Wow, could that be my canary in the tree?
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I couldn't pronounce some words.
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I couldn't say sandwich.
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I would say Sammy.
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I knew that 2 plus 2 was 4.
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But what was 5 plus 7?
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I counted out my answer on my fingers, sticky from the peanut butter and jam, inside my Sammy.
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In second grade, we collected money to help children in Africa.
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They didn't have anything to eat.
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I collected pennies, lots of pennies.
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I noticed that the pennies were the same as me.
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You see, I was naturally brown, and even browner from running in the sun.
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I felt like I was giving poor Africa a piece of me.
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My classmates got taller, but I seemed to stay the same size.
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I still liked playing at recess.
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I liked dodgeball, kickball, and foursquare.
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I would tumble when I played soccer.
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I was quick.
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I admire people who are quick and who play fair.
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By third grade, I was a good reader.
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I loved picture books.
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The pages were bright and colorful as toucans, those tropical birds with long beaks.
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Every week I went to the public library.
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I checked out mountains of books.
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I was still a dreamer.
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Sometimes I watched ants going in and out of their holes, or I would watch water racing in the curb.
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The river of water carried matchsticks, leaves, gum wrappers, and those poor little ants.
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I rescued some of those ants.
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I put them carefully on my finger and set them on the cement curb.
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They lay for a while like weak little shadows.
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Then they woke up and staggered away.
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It was fun in third grade.
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I still stayed small, like those ants, I guess.
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I was scared of math, poor me.
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But reading was what I really liked.
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I read on the couch, I read in bed with carrot sticks, like pencils in my hands.
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I liked to read in my favorite tree.
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Once when Boots came by, I tossed a piece of bark at him.
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He looked around and meowed.
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I giggled.
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I tossed another piece of bark at him.
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This time Boots saw me and climbed up the tree.
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We sat on a fat limb, the two of us.
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I read him a story about a bird.
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He licked his paws.
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The engine inside him began to purr.
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I guess Boots liked reading too.
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On weekends, my family went to Chinatown.
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We bought groceries there at the Mexican store.
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I remember mariachis roving the street.
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Their sombreros were huge.
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You couldn't see their eyes, only their hanging mustaches.
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Their trumpets blared, the guitars strummed, their violins seemed to weep.
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The guitarrant thumped deeply.
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One time, I saw a dog dance to the mariachi music.
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The dog went back and forth, back and forth, like he was doing the cha-cha.
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Every night I took a bubble bath in our deep tub.
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The water roared from the faucet as I climbed in.
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The bubbles rose like mountains.
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No, like really pretty clouds.
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I scooped up the bubbles and patted them onto my face.
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I pretended that I had a beard.
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I placed some of the bubbles on my head.
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Oh, a sombrero.
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I was a dreamer.
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I was sometimes in another world.
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In bed, I covered myself with two blankets.
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I thought about the day before I fell asleep, so tired.
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My legs kicked.
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As I dreamed I was running for a touchdown, and the whole school was watching me.
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Gary Soto grew up to be an author.
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He dreamed up ideas for more than 40 books for children and grown-ups.
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He shares his Mexican-American culture through his poems and stories.
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Thank you.

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Esta aula de conversação de nível A2 usa o vídeo “McGraw Hill.Wonders 3.Gary The Dreamer”. As palavras que mais se repetem: liked, tree, played, ants, bubble. Este vídeo tem 127 frases e 1065 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 8:08. O falante mantém um ritmo estável de cerca de 131 palavras por minuto, confortável para o shadowing. 71% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês; vale a pena estudar o restante antes de começar.

Vocabulário principal deste vídeo

15 palavras do vídeo que vale a pena aprender, com pronúncia e significado:

PalavraPronúnciaSignificado
bubble substantivo/ˈbʌbəl/bolha, borbulha
ant substantivo/ænt/formiga
seed substantivo/siːd/semente
penny substantivo/ˈpɛni/pêni (B), péni (P)
finger substantivo/ˈfɪŋɡɚ/dedo (da mão)
collect verbo/ˈkɑlɪkt/juntar, reunir
climb verbo/ˈklaɪ̯m/subir
toss verbo/tɔs/jogar, arremessar
bark substantivo/bɑɹk/casca
spit verbo/spɪt/cuspir
curb substantivo/kɝb/meio-fio, lancil
recess substantivo/ˈɹiˌsɛs/recesso
guitar substantivo/ɡɪˈtɑɹ/guitarra, violão
naturally advérbio/ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/naturalmente
rescue verbo/ˈɹɛs.kjuː/resgatar, salvar

Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir

PalavraPronúnciaSignificado
check out verboverificar, sacar só
go back verbovoltar
wake up verbo/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/acordar, despertar

Frases que vale a pena repetir

Frases curtas e completas do vídeo que você pode usar na conversa do dia a dia:

  • I didn't have many toys.
  • Wow, could that be my canary in the tree?
  • I couldn't pronounce some words.
  • You couldn't see their eyes, only their hanging mustaches.

Gramática neste vídeo

As estruturas que o falante mais usa, com as palavras exatas do vídeo:

EstruturaNo vídeo
Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem fazwas born · was left
Past continuous was/were + -ing — uma ação em andamento em um momento do passadowas giving · was doing · was running

Pronúncia para ficar de olho

O falante usa 5 contrações e formas reduzidas, como couldn't, didn't. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.

  • Os sons de “th”: bath /bɑːθ/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, thumb /ˈθʌm/, thump /θʌmp/
  • Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, shoe /ˈʃu/, shaker /ˈʃeɪkɚ/
  • Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/, kindergarten /ˈkɪndəɹˌɡɑːɹt(ə)n/, mariachi /ˌmɑɹ.iˈɑ.t͡ʃi/

Sons difíceis para falantes de português:

  • Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: ant /ænt/, seed /siːd/, collect /ˈkɑlɪkt/, bark /bɑɹk/, spit /spɪt/
  • /l/ final — a língua toca o céu da boca, não vira “u”: bubble /ˈbʌbəl/, tropical /ˈtɹɑ.pɪ.kəl/, pencil /ˈpɛnsəl/, sprinkle /ˈspɹɪŋkəl/, dodgeball /ˈdɒd͡ʒˌbɔl/
  • /h/ — um sopro suave, diferente do “r”: hungry /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/, nowhere /ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/

Como praticar com este vídeo

  1. Ouça o vídeo inteiro uma vez sem falar e anote as palavras que você não conhece.
  2. Faça shadowing frase por frase na velocidade normal, repetindo cada uma até o seu ritmo ficar igual ao do falante.
  3. Grave a sua voz e compare com o original, prestando atenção a palavras como bubble, ant, seed.

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