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1 - Life size Globe

A customer says to the attendant :

"I am looking for a globe of the earth."
"We have a table-top model over here” , he replies .
"No, that's not good enough. Don't you have a life size one?"
(after a short pause): "Yes, but it's in use right now!"


Vocabulary Help

looking for - procurando por
table-top model - modelo de mesa
not good enough - não é bom o bastante
life size - tamanho real

Write these sentences in English

1. Eu gostaria de ter comprado um outro modelo de globo terrestre .


2. Eu gostaria que você me comprasse um globo terrestre modelo de mesa .


3. Já te contei que eu ganhei um globo terrestre modelo de mesa ?


4. Eu tenho que procurar um outro modelo de globo porque este não é grande o suficiente .


5. Eu deveria ter comprado um globo de tamanho real .


Ask me if ...

Ask me if I want to buy a globe of the earth .


Ask me if I bought a table top model .


As me if I am looking for a table – top model .

Idioms

To be way behind = estar atrasado .

If you are way behind , it means that you are not updated with something . For example , if you are working at your job and you are working hard but you still have a lot of things to do and the day is ending and you need to finish what you are doing , so you come to a conclusion that you are way behind on your work and maybe you will need to do overtime , that is , you will need to work until late .

1. I´m way behind on my work so I need to do overtime .