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Hello, everyone!<\/em><\/p>\n Sejam bem-vindos e bem-vindas a mais um epis\u00f3dio da nossa s\u00e9rie de podcasts, o Fluency News<\/strong>! Aqui, voc\u00ea vai treinar a sua escuta e ficar por dentro do que est\u00e1 acontecendo no mundo, sempre com as tr\u00eas principais not\u00edcias da semana, tudo em ingl\u00eas! Ao longo do epis\u00f3dio, n\u00f3s tamb\u00e9m adicionamos explica\u00e7\u00f5es em portugu\u00eas das coisas que achamos que precisam de mais aten\u00e7\u00e3o, assim voc\u00ea n\u00e3o perde nenhum detalhe!<\/p>\n No epis\u00f3dio desta semana, n\u00f3s falamos sobre algumas not\u00edcias vindas do Brasil: o tr\u00e1gico acidente que deixou pelo menos dez mortos no estado de Minas Gerais e a decis\u00e3o de parar o monitoramento do cerrado brasileiro. Tamb\u00e9m falamos sobre o comunicado iraniano sobre os guepardos no pa\u00eds, e sobre a decis\u00e3o do Canad\u00e1 de tornar ilegais as terapias de convers\u00e3o.<\/p>\n N\u00f3s temos uma p\u00e1gina de dicas de ingl\u00eas no Instagram, v\u00e1 conferir! @fluencytvingles<\/p>\n Toda semana temos um novo epis\u00f3dio do Fluency News, n\u00e3o deixe de escutar! See you!<\/em><\/p>\n Este epis\u00f3dio foi escrito por L\u00edvia Pond.<\/p>\n What is up, everyone! Welcome back to Fluency Academy\u2019s Fluency News, the podcast made for you to train your listening skills, improve your comprehension skills, and keep you updated on what\u2019s happening around the world. I\u2019m Scott Lowe, one of your native English-speaking teachers.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re new here, let me give you a quick rundown of our routine. We\u2019ll present you some of the most important news stories of the week, and we\u2019ll come in with snippets of explanations in Portuguese, to make sure you understand everything you\u2019re hearing. You can check out the description of this episode for the transcript and all our sources.<\/p>\n Alright, let\u2019s get started! We have a couple of stories coming from Brazil today, so let\u2019s start with those.<\/p>\n The death toll from an accident in which a slab of cliff rock toppled onto pleasure boaters on a Brazilian lake has risen<\/strong> to 10, police said.<\/p>\n Authorities said that there was a possibility that some people were still missing on Sunday following the accident in Minas Gerais state. At least 32 people were injured, though most were released from hospitals by Saturday evening.<\/p>\n The accident occurred between the towns of Sao Jos\u00e9 da Barra and Capitolio, from which the boats had left. Videos showed a gathering of small boats moving slowly near the sheer rock cliff on Furnas Lake when a fissure appeared in the rock and a huge piece toppled onto several of the vessels.<\/p>\n The bodies were taken to Passos city, where coroners worked to identify them. The work was difficult because of the high-energy impact of the rock on the boaters, said a regional civil police official, Marcos Pimenta.<\/p>\n The press office of Minas Gerais state told the Associated Press that the fire department had deployed divers and helicopters to help. Minas Gerais governor Romeu Zema sent messages of solidarity with the victims via social media.<\/p>\n Furnas Lake, called the \u201csea of Minas\u201d, is a popular tourist draw in the area.<\/p>\n The state of Minas Gerais has been experiencing heavy rains that have forced<\/strong> almost 17,000 people out of their homes due to flooding, according to the state civil defense. Officials suggested that the earlier rains could have contributed to the wall coming loose.<\/p>\n The Brazilian Navy, which also helped in the rescue, said it would investigate the causes of the accident.<\/p>\n Nessa hist\u00f3ria n\u00f3s temos o uso do tempo verbal Present Perfect. O Present Perfect \u00e9 usado para dar a ideia de algo que come\u00e7ou no passado e que ainda acontece no tempo presente. Ele tamb\u00e9m pode ser usado para falar de algo que aconteceu, mas ainda n\u00e3o est\u00e1 claro que finalizou. Nessa not\u00edcia, eu digo, por exemplo, que o n\u00famero de mortos pelo acidente <\/em>has risen<\/em><\/strong>. Isso quer dizer que o n\u00famero aumentou, mas ainda n\u00e3o \u00e9 poss\u00edvel saber se esse \u00e9 o n\u00famero definitivo. A not\u00edcia ainda est\u00e1 em andamento, e as buscas n\u00e3o foram encerradas, portanto o n\u00famero pode mudar. No jornalismo, \u00e9 muito comum o uso desse tempo verbal, principalmente porque muitas hist\u00f3rias s\u00e3o noticiadas assim que come\u00e7am a acontecer, e muitas atualiza\u00e7\u00f5es e mudan\u00e7as n\u00e3o previstas podem acontecer.<\/em><\/p>\n In other news, Brazil will stop monitoring deforestation in the Cerrado, the world’s most species-rich savanna, a government researcher said, citing a lack of funds, days after data showed destruction hitting a 6-year-high in 2021.<\/p>\n The Cerrado, which neighbors the Amazon rainforest and stretches across several Brazilian states, is a major bulwark<\/strong> against climate change due to the carbon it absorbs. It is often likened to an upside-down forest because its plants sink roots deep into the ground.<\/p>\n Deforestation rose 8% to 8,531 square kilometers in the Cerrado for the 12-months through July, data from national space research agency Inpe showed.<\/p>\n The decision to stop monitoring the Cerrado was made because of budget cuts, said Claudio Almeida, a scientist who coordinates satellite monitoring at Inpe.<\/p>\n Inpe will no longer produce annual figures for Cerrado deforestation unless it can find a new source of funding, Almeida said in a written message.<\/p>\n A “minimal team” will continue producing monthly deforestation figures for the Cerrado but will run out of money in six months or less, he said.<\/p>\n Marcio Astrini, head of the environmental group Climate Observatory, said he hoped the government would find funding to continue monitoring such a vital ecosystem.<\/p>\n “Monitoring shows if deforestation is advancing, and if deforestation will doom a biome that is so important for Brazilians,” Astrini said.<\/p>\n Earlier this week, scientists expressed alarm at the rising destruction in the Cerrado, saying it results in huge greenhouse gas emissions and threatens to drive species to extinction.<\/p>\n “Every time you go to the Cerrado to do field research, it’s not rare to discover a new species of plant or even animals,” said Manuel Ferreira, a geographer at the Federal University of Goias. “There are still many species yet to be studied.”<\/p>\n Pode ser que voc\u00ea n\u00e3o esteja familiarizado com a palavra <\/em>bulwark<\/em><\/strong>. Ela n\u00e3o \u00e9 muito usada em contextos informais hoje em dia, e acabamos usando outros sin\u00f4nimos no lugar dela. <\/em>Bulwark<\/em><\/strong> pode ser traduzido para \u201cbaluarte\u201d, ou \u201cbasti\u00e3o\u201d. Significa algo que te protege de situa\u00e7\u00f5es perigosas ou desagrad\u00e1veis. Nesse caso, o cerrado brasileiro \u00e9 um baluarte contra altera\u00e7\u00f5es clim\u00e1ticas no mundo.<\/em><\/p>\n In some environmental news from a different country, there are only a dozen Asiatic cheetahs left in the wild in Iran, and the situation for the highly endangered species is being described<\/strong> as \u201cextremely critical.\u201d<\/p>\n “The measures we have taken to increase protection, reproduction, and the installation of road signs have not been enough to save this species,” Hassan Akbari, the deputy environment minister, told the Tasnim news agency.<\/p>\n He said there are believed to be only nine male and three female Asiatic Cheetahs in the country, compared to an estimated 100 in 2010.<\/p>\n Environmentalists say the world\u2019s fastest animal has been the victim of drought, hunting, habitat destruction, and scarcity of prey due to hunters in the remote and arid central plateaus.<\/p>\n Capable of reaching speeds of 120 kilometers per hour, cheetahs once stalked habitats from the eastern reaches of India to the Atlantic coast of Senegal and beyond.<\/p>\n They are still found in parts of Southern Africa, but have practically disappeared from North Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n Iran, one of the last countries in the world where the animals live in the wild, began a United Nations-supported protection program in 2001.<\/p>\n The Iranian Cheetah Society says the only remaining habitats left for the majestic cats is the Miandasht Wildlife Refuge and Touran Biosphere Reserve in northeast Iran.<\/p>\n How sad is that? These big cats are facing extinction due to human interference. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n Nessa not\u00edcia, j\u00e1 no come\u00e7o, n\u00f3s temos o uso da voz passiva no ingl\u00eas. Se voc\u00ea j\u00e1 escuta a gente h\u00e1 um tempinho, pode ser que j\u00e1 esteja familiarizado, familiarizada com a voz passiva. A voz passiva \u00e9 \u00fatil para alguns contextos nos quais o que realmente importa n\u00e3o \u00e9 quem fez a a\u00e7\u00e3o do verbo, mas quem recebeu a a\u00e7\u00e3o. Quando falamos em voz ativa e voz passiva, estamos nos referindo \u00e0 estrutura de frases, \u00e0 ordem das palavras. Frases na active voice s\u00e3o aquelas em que o sujeito que pratica a a\u00e7\u00e3o est\u00e1 em evid\u00eancia, j\u00e1 em frases na passive voice, o objeto que recebe a a\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e9 que est\u00e1 em evid\u00eancia.<\/em><\/p>\n O que fazemos na voz passiva \u00e9 enfatizar quem ou o que recebeu determinada a\u00e7\u00e3o. Para isso, usamos verb to be + past participle do verbo,. Aqui, um dos exemplos \u00e9 <\/em>is being described<\/em><\/strong>. Verbo to be, seguido do verbo regular \u201cdescribe\u201d, no partic\u00edpio do passado.<\/em><\/p>\n In some very positive news, conversion therapy is now illegal in Canada, marking a major milestone in LGBTQ2S+ rights in the country.<\/p>\n After parliamentarians came together to unanimously pass legislation to eradicate the harmful practice in late 2021, the Criminal Code sanctions came into force on Jan. 7th.<\/p>\n That means that now, anyone who looks to subject someone of any age, consenting or not, to so-called conversion therapy could face up to five years in prison.<\/p>\n Conversion \u201ctherapy,\u201d as it has been called, seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation to heterosexual or gender identity to cisgender. It can include seeking to repress someone\u2019s non-heterosexual attraction, or repressing a person\u2019s gender expression or non-cis gender identity.<\/p>\n These practices can take various forms, including counselling and behavioral modification, and they have been opposed by numerous health and human rights groups. There continue to be calls for further mental health and educational supports for those who have survived conversion therapy.<\/p>\n After years of calls for action and past failed attempts to pass a bill to ban conversion therapy, the accelerated all-party effort\u2014despite some after-the-fact concerns raised by a few Conservative MPs\u2014has been praised by political leaders as well as by LGBTQ2S+ advocates both in Canada and abroad.<\/p>\n Few countries have criminalized conversion therapy, and Canada now has what the federal Liberal government has described as \u201camong the most comprehensive\u201d protections in the world.<\/p>\n Alright, that\u2019s where we\u2019re going to end today\u2019s episode. Don\u2019t forget to check out the description on fluency.io to see the transcript of this episode and all of our sources. You\u2019ll also find more free content in seven different languages there. Also, check out our Instagram page, @fluencytvingles, for tips and updates on events and other cool things. I hope you\u2019re having a fantastic day, and I\u2019ll see you next time. Peace out!<\/p>\n Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n Rock face collapses and strikes tourist boats in Brazil, killing at least 8<\/strong> Sejam bem-vindos e bem-vindas a mais um epis\u00f3dio da nossa s\u00e9rie de podcasts, o Fluency News!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":64095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":[183],"meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"trilha":[],"class_list":["post-64094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dia-a-dia","tipo-podcast-fluency-news","format-podcast"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nEpisode Transcript<\/h4>\n
\nhttps:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/nation-world\/rock-face-collapses-and-strikes-tourist-boats-in-brazil-killing-at-least-8\/<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20220109-toll-climbs-to-8-in-brazil-cliff-collapse-2-missing<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2022\/01\/09\/7-rockslide-brazil-kills-boaters-dead\/<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/death-toll-brazil-waterfall-rock-face-collapse-rises-10-2022-01-09\/<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/1\/9\/wall-of-rock-collapses-on-brazils-furnas-lake-kills-seven<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/08\/brazil-rock-breaks-from-cliff-and-falls-on-boaters-leaving-at-least-five-dead<\/a>
\nBrazil stops tracking savanna deforestation despite rising destruction<\/strong>
\nhttps:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/us\/brazil-stops-tracking-savanna-deforestation-despite-rising-destruction-2022-01-06
\n\u200d<\/a>Iran Says Only 12 Asiatic Cheetahs Left In Country<\/strong>
\nhttps:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/iran-asiatic-cheetahs-environment-\/31646781.html<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20220109-iran-says-only-12-asiatic-cheetahs-left-in-the-country<\/a>
\nConversion therapy is now illegal in Canada<\/strong>
\nhttps:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/canada\/conversion-therapy-is-now-illegal-in-canada-1.5731911<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"