Today's story: Healey is preparing to raise the surcharge paid by British banks. You will hear it in Portuguese first, then line by line with the English beside it.
Today's headline in Portuguese: Healey prepara-se para aumentar a sobretaxa dos bancos britânicos
(00:00) Welcome and today's headline
(00:36) More stories today
(01:40) Today's headline, slowly
(02:26) Bank profits
(03:04) Wanting something
(03:37) A higher charge
(04:16) Today's grammar point
(04:59) Your quiz
The full transcript, the English translation, the vocabulary and a short quiz for this episode:
https://linguawire.com/class/portuguese/a1/2026-10-16
TODAY'S PORTUGUESE TEXT
Healey prepara-se para aumentar a sobretaxa dos bancos britânicos
John Healey prepara-se para aumentar a sobretaxa que os bancos pagam sobre os lucros.
O orçamento está marcado para 28 de outubro.
O Governo quer reduzir o défice.
A sobretaxa pode subir de 3% para 8%.
Esta medida pode dar mais de 2 mil milhões de libras por ano.
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WHAT TODAY'S CLASS TEACHES
- vocabulary (lucros)
- vocabulary (orçamento)
- verb (querer)
- vocabulary (subir)
- vocabulary (mil milhões)
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