017. Learning to Roller-Skate

It was three o’clock. She was learning how to roller-skate. She had always wanted to learn. She could not afford to buy roller skates before.

Now, she was older. She had a job. She bought her first pair of roller skates yesterday. It is never too late to learn anything. She was at the park. She put on protective clothing. She wore¹ a helmet and kneepads. “Always safety first,” she said to herself.

She slipped on her roller skates. She got on her feet and skated away. She held on to a railing at first. It was scary wearing roller skates. With practice, she improved.

Days later, she was roller-skating naturally. It was so much fun. She tripped and fell a few times. She got up every time and tried again.

She never got hurt. Her helmet and kneepads protected her from injury. Roller-skating was so much fun.

Vocabulary

▪ afford ➝ dispor/não dispor de dinheiro ou tempo para fazer algo, permitir-se/não permitir-se o luxo de algo
▪ helmet ➝ capacete
▪ improve ➝ melhorar
▪ injury ➝ ferimento, lesão
▪ knee ➝ joelho
▪ kneepads ➝ joelheiras
▪ pad ➝ enchimento, bloco de anotações
▪ protect ➝ proteger
▪ protective ➝ protetor, de proteção
▪ railing ➝ grade
▪ roller ➝ rolo, bóbi
▪ skate ➝ patinar, patim de gelo, patim (de rodas)
▪ safety ➝ segurança
▪ scary ➝ assustador
▪ slip ➝ tira, deslizar, escorregar, passar rápido, tira de papel, lapso, deslize, erro, falha

➕ Extra Vocabulary
▪ slip someone’s mind ➝ fugir da cabeça de alguém

▪ a slip of the tongue ➝ lapso verbal, um erro cometido usando a palavra errada.

▪ give someone the slip➝ escapar de alguém com quem você não quer estar

Noun
▪ slip-up ➝ mancada, deslize

Phrasal verb
▪ slip up ➝ cometer um deslize, erro

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