@Isabela Bezerra Jorge Hi Isabela! Congratulations on completing another day of the challenge! It’s always great to see you showing up and continuing to push yourself with storytelling. Here are a few things I want you to pay attention to: The past of “to be” Since you’re telling a story in the past, remember that is/are → was/were. You said things like: 👉 “People is relaxing.” 👉 “The children is playing.” Since these actions happened in the story, we need: 👉 “The people were relaxing on the sofa.” 👉 “The children were playing.” “Notice” I think you were trying to use the verb notice, which means “perceber.” Be careful with the pronunciation and the spelling. It’s notice, not “notes.” For example: 👉 “She noticed something.” 👉 “She notices something.” Prinounced as : “nourices” “Offer some help” You said “offer a help.” We don’t normally use help with “a” in this expression. We say: 👉 “Offer some help.” For example: “She offered him some help.” “Was very happy” There was also a moment when you used stay to express that the child became or remained happy. In English, when you simply want to say that someone ficou feliz, we can use to be: 👉 “The child was very happy about this.” Great job, Isabela! Keep going with the challenge. Every day you’re getting more practice telling stories and expressing your ideas in English, and that practice is what will continue building your confidence. See you tomorrow!

@Michael Moraes Hi, Michael! I’m so excited to have you back! You’ve been here since the very beginning, and I truly believe that progress can look exactly like the picture I’m going to post here for you. Sometimes we don’t notice how much we’ve improved until we look back. I really think you can continue making a lot of progress in your English if you keep going with us. We still have 20 more days to go, and we’re going to keep challenging ourselves with activities like storytelling, just like we’re doing now. And congratulations on your video! I want to point out just a few things for you to focus on: “It’s been a while I don’t show up here.” A more natural way to say this would be: “It’s been a while since I’ve shown up here.” Or, if you’re talking about posting on social media: “It’s been a while since I’ve posted here.” Another thing I want you to focus on is your pronunciation of “other.” Pay attention to the vowel sound. Your pronunciation was getting very close to “older,” so make sure you’re adding that open sound at the beginning of “óther” And finally, “kitchen.” Pay attention to the difference between the long /iː/ sound and the short /ɪ/ sound. We want that short vowel sound here, so be careful not to stretch it. Overall, Michael, I’m really happy to see you back! Keep going, keep challenging yourself, and most importantly, keep speaking. You’ve already made progress, and there’s still so much more to come! 🙌

@Raphael Vasconcelos Hi Raphael! You did a fantastic job with this one. I know it can sometimes feel a bit redundant when you're telling a story, but you handled it really well and got your message across clearly. Just one quick tip on phrasing: when you talked about life situations "that there will be no one to help," it sounds much more natural in English to use "where" instead of "that." So you'd say: "situations in life where there will be no one to help." Great work overall. You're a great student. Keep it up!

@Isabela Bezerra Jorge Hi Isabella! You did a wonderful job with this video! Here are a few quick tips to help you refine your pronunciation and phrasing: First, let's look at the word guitar. Right now, you're placing the emphasis on the first part ("GUI-tar"). In English, the stress goes on the second syllable: gui-TAR (like "gee-TAR"). Next, for the word bucket, it sounded a bit like "boo-ket." To get the right vowel sound at the beginning, use the short "u" sound like in under or umbrella, so it's buck-it. Regarding your sentence structure, make sure to include "how to" when talking about skills. Instead of "he didn't know to swim," the natural phrasing is "He didn't know HOW to swim." Finally, for the ending of your story, a great way to wrap it up would have been something like: "Then the grandma said, 'Can you believe in yourself right now?' or 'Can you believe you are capable now, because you are?' And the boy said yes." You're making great progress, so keep up the awesome work!

@Luciano Paes Hi Luciano! I'm so happy with your progress. You caught yourself and used "speak" instead of "learn". Well done! I'm really proud of you. Sometimes paying attention to those small details makes all the difference. Looking at the beginning of your video, when you said my challenge is to "talking about," that wasn't quite right for that sentence. You should say "talk about" instead of "talking." Here are a couple of words to keep an eye on for pronunciation: For "hotel," you were saying "hótel." Think of starting with the "ho" sound from the word "hope," and then add "tell"—ho-TELL, with the stress on the second syllable. For "puppy," you were pronouncing it like "poppy." To get the right sound, think of the short "u" sound like in "cup" or "up." So it’s "pup" + "ee"—PUP-py, not poppy. One last detail: I noticed you sometimes use "back" as a standalone verb. In English, "back" needs a action verb in front of it to express movement. You’ll want to pair it with verbs like "go back," "come back," or "get back" depending on what you mean, rather than using "back" on its own. Keep up the great work! You're doing awesome and I am so proud of you!

@Marcia Saiter Hi Márcia! I am so proud of you for taking on these storytelling challenges. They really force us out of our comfort zone, but I have great news for you. Even though you spoke a bit slower at times in this video, which is completely normal, you made very few mistakes. Your grammar was spot on, especially your verb placement and conjugations! Just a couple of small tweaks to keep in mind: First, with the verb "dream," we never say "dream with." Instead, we always say "dream of" or "dream about." Second, right at the end when you said "she was feeling happy," I think because the words blended together, it came out sounding like "she was feeling hap." Just make sure to give that full emphasis to the "y" sound at the end—happy! You're doing such an amazing job. Keep up the fantastic work!