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The writing's on the wall.
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Well, in any event, we'll have to think of something to make the public think kindly towards administration because of the Europass.
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Quite.
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Europass?
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Europass.
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European Identity Card.
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Well, Bernard, surely you've informed the Minister...
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Minister, didn't you do your boxes last night?
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No, I was redrafting the redraft of the draft.
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Well, briefly, Minister, Brussels is about to decree
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that there should be a new European Identity Card to be carried by all citizens of the EEC.
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Now the Foreign Office is quite ready to go along with it as a quid pro quo
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for a deal over the butter mountain, the wine lake and the milk ocean.
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The lamb war and the cod stink.
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And quite obviously the Prime Minister wants you to introduce the legislation.
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Me?
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Yes, well it's well known that you're pro-Europe you see
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and it would simplify our administration enormously in the long run So it's a good idea.
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Good idea.
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Good idea.
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Good idea.
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Not a good idea.
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Political suicide.
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Trying to make British people carry compulsory identification papers.
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They'll say I'm introducing a police state again.
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Is this what we fought two world wars for Humphrey?
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Well Minister it's really little more than a sort of driving license.
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It's the last meal in my coffin that's what it is.
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You might get away with calling it Euro Club Express.
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Why do we have to introduce it?
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Can't the Foreign Office do it?
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Well in fact that was the Prime Minister's original suggestion
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that the Foreign Secretary thought that this was a Home Office matter
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and the Home Office took the view that it was essentially an administrative matter and the Prime Minister agreed.
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They're all playing pass the parcel.
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Can you blame them when you can hear it ticking?
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Well I'm afraid that the identity card bill is planned to be the last action of this department.
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Wonderful ammunition for the anti-Europeans.
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Yes, don't the Foreign Office realize what damage this will do to the European idea?
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Well, I'm sure they do.
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That's why they support it.
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Well, surely the Foreign Office is pro-Europe, isn't it?
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Yes and no. If you'll forgive the expression.
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The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it is really anti-Europe.
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The Civil Service was united in its desire to make sure that the common market didn't work.
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That's why we went into it.
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What are you talking about?
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Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years to create a disunited Europe.
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In that cause, we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians.
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Divide and rule, you see.
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Why should we change now, when it's worked so well?
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Ancient history, surely.
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Yes, and current policy.
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We had to break the whole thing up, so we had to get inside.
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We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work.
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Now that we're inside, we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing.
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Set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch.
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The Foreign Office is terribly pleased.
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It's just like old times.
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Surely we're all committed to the European ideal.
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Really, Minister?
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If not, why are we pressing for an increase in the membership?
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Well, for the same reason.
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It's just like the United Nations, in fact.
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The more members it has, the more arguments it can stir up, the more futile and impotent it becomes.
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Appalling cynicism.
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Yes.
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We call it diplomacy, Minister.

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Vocabulário e dicas de fala para esta lição

Esta aula de conversação de nível B2 usa o vídeo “Why the UK is in the EU”. As palavras que mais se repetem: Minister, foreign, Europe, European, French. Este vídeo tem 68 frases e 618 palavras para praticar shadowing. A fala dura 3:29. O falante fala em ritmo natural, cerca de 178 palavras por minuto, próximo de uma conversa do dia a dia. 87% das palavras estão entre as 3.000 mais comuns do inglês, por isso o vocabulário é fácil de acompanhar. 13 das 68 frases são perguntas, por isso é um bom treino para a entonação de perguntas e respostas curtas.

Vocabulário principal deste vídeo

As 15 palavras mais avançadas do vídeo, com pronúncia e significado:

PalavraPronúnciaSignificado
appalling adjetivo/əˈpɔːlɪŋ/apavorante, assombroso
cynicism substantivo/ˈsɪn.ɪˌsɪzəm/cinismo
enormously advérbioenormemente
futile adjetivo/ˈfju.taɪl/fútil
simplify verbo/ˈsɪmplɪfaɪ/simplificar
parcel substantivo/ˈpɑɹsəl/pacote, encomenda
compulsory adjetivo/kəmˈpʌlsəɹi/obrigatório
diplomacy substantivo/dɪˈpləʊməsi/diplomacia
tick substantivo/tɪk/carrapato, carraça
coffin substantivo/ˈkɔfɪn/caixão, ataúde
decree substantivo/dɪˈkɹiː/decreto
ammunition substantivo/ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/munição
stir verbo/stɝ/mexer
kindly advérbio/ˈkaɪn(d)li/gentilmente
lamb substantivo/ˈlæm/anho, cordeiro

Phrasal verbs que você vai ouvir

PalavraPronúnciaSignificado
get away with verbopassar batido
stir up verbo/ˈstɜː.ɹʌp/incitar

Frases que vale a pena repetir

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

  • Minister, didn't you do your boxes last night?
  • They'll say I'm introducing a police state again.
  • Why do we have to introduce it?
  • What are you talking about?
  • Why should we change now, when it's worked so well?

Gramática neste vídeo

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

EstruturaNo vídeo
Present perfect have/has + particípio passado — uma ação passada que ainda importa agorayou've informed · has had · have fought
Voz passiva be + particípio passado — o foco está no que acontece, não em quem fazbe carried · is planned · was united

Pronúncia para ficar de olho

O falante usa 17 contrações e formas reduzidas, como I'm, didn't, we're. Diga-as na forma curta, do jeito que você ouve.

  • Os sons de “sh” e “zh”: ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/, identification /aɪˌdɛn(t)ɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
  • Palavras longas — acerte a sílaba tônica: cynicism /ˈsɪn.ɪˌsɪzəm/, compulsory /kəmˈpʌlsəɹi/, diplomacy /dɪˈpləʊməsi/, ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/, identification /aɪˌdɛn(t)ɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/

Sons difíceis para falantes de português:

  • Consoante final — sem acrescentar um “i” depois: disunite /dɪsjuːˈnaɪt/, impotent /ˈɪm.pə.tənt/, tick /tɪk/, divide /dɪˈvaɪd/
  • /l/ final — a língua toca o céu da boca, não vira “u”: futile /ˈfju.taɪl/, parcel /ˈpɑɹsəl/

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  2. Comece na velocidade 0,75×, faça shadowing frase por frase e volte à velocidade normal quando ficar fácil.
  3. Grave a sua voz e compare com o original, prestando atenção a palavras como appalling, cynicism, enormously.

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