Watch and/or listen to a reading and conversation about Apostas Esportivas, or Sports Betting, in Brasil to train your english communication skills. This episode is for intermediate-advanced students to increase exposure to natural english and new vocabulary.

Sports Gambling is coming to Brasil! Will Lula decrease the national debt by heavily taxing Sports Betting winnings? Or, will he gain favor with a wealthy class of voters by allowing Sports Gambling with little or even no taxation?

*** Vocabulary ***

Flickering light: a light flashing on and off and on and off (tipo quebrado)

To kick in: To start having/taking effect; para começar fazer

Gaps: spaces, voids, lacunas

a U-Turn: to turn in the opposite direction, to make a 180° turn/change, to reverse; inversão de marcha,

a Stark Change: a big, significant, substantial change; uma mudança radical

A threshold/a tax threshold: a limit/demarcation that triggers/causes some other action/qualification; um limite fiscal

A flat tax: a tax that is univerally the same regardless of other variables, a tax that does not vary; um imposto fixo

Chapters:
00:00 Start
00:43 Introduction to Reading/Leitura Sports Betting Regulation to Kick in with Gaps and a Lula U Turn
00:56 Beginning of Reading/Leitura
1:01 Vocabulary “a stark change”
2:01 Vocabulary “tax threshold”
2:10 Conversa/Interruption [Recebi um Videochat ligação da minha irma]
5:37 Leitura continuation
8:27 End of Leitura
8:28 Short conversation

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