Elementary 14: I Love Teaching Children

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After today’s lesson we will all feel like we need to go back to elementary school, unless of course you already know how to calculate the area of a trapezoid. Just kidding, but after this lesson you will be able to identify some basic shapes in Portuguese.

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Discussion
 A: Você é professora do primário, não é?
You are an elementary school teacher, right?
  B: Sou sim, adoro meu trabalho.
Yes, I am, I love my job.
  A: E o que você está ensinado agora?
And what are you teaching now?
  B: Bom, essa semana estamos aprendendo as formas básicas: quadrado, retângulo, círculo, triângulo, etc.
Well, this week we are learning the basic shapes: square, rectangle, circle, triangle, etc.
  A: E as crianças gostam?
Do the children like it?
  B: Gostam, mas para alguns é difícil de entender a diferença entre paralelogramo e trapézios.
They do, but for some it is difficult to understand the difference between parallelogram and trapezoid.
  A: Eu também nunca entendia bem essas diferenças.
I never understood those differences very well either.
  B: Bom, se precisar, pode voltar para a escola primária também, meu amigo!
Well, if you need to, you can come back to elementary school too, my friend!

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