A HBO lançou a série Game of Thrones – GoT em 2011. Em 2014 já era sucesso absoluto. O primeiro episódio da oitava temporada estava sendo esperado com muita ansiedade e foi ao ar no domingo, 14, com um recorde de audiência: 17,4 milhões de americanos assistiram à estreia.

Então, para treinar vocabulário em inglês, vamos ver algumas citações de personagens da série?

1. Arya Stark as Walder Frey

“Leave one wolf alive and the sheep are never safe”

Under the mask of Walder Frey, Arya (15) poisons the Frey men who were at the Red Wedding and assisted in the killing of her family.

2. Lord Varys

“You wish to know where my true loyalties (2) lie? Not with any king or queen, but with the people. The people who suffer under despots and prosper under just rule, the people whose hearts you aim to win”

Varys’ epic quote when Dany is questioning his loyalty that repeats his sentiment from the first season that he does truly serve the (13) realm.

3. Lord Varys

“Oh I doubt that. Give us common folk one taste of power and we’re like the lion who tasted man – nothing is ever so sweet again”

Varys and Melisandre, two people who have risen from the (4) depths of depravity to sit shoulder to shoulder with the greatest monarchs in the land, talk while (11) gazing down at Jon arriving in Dragonstone. Melisandre tries to tell Varys that her time (6) whispering in the ears of king is over but, as a common person who’s tasted power himself, he tells her that he doubts this.

4. Daenerys Targaryen

“I have been sold like a broodmare. I’ve been chained and (9) betrayed, raped and defiled. Do you know what kept me standing through all those years in exile? Faith. Not in any gods, not in myths and legends, in myself."

A very epic speech from Dany as she tells Jon her story that has led her to reclaiming Dragonstone (8) whilst Jon is trying to convince her and Tyrion that the army of the dead is real. Definitely one of her best and most powerful quotes of the series. Truly one of the most epic Game of Thrones Season 7 quotes.

5. Tyrion Lannister

“I came down here to (7) brood over my failure to (3) predict the Greyjoy attack. You’re making it difficult; you look a lot better brooding than I do. You make me feel like I’m failing at brooding over failing”

Tyrion’s clever and funny line when he sees Jon also standing by the cliffs brooding whilst (5) staring into the distance.

6. Jon Snow

“They fought together, against their common enemy. Despite their differences, despite their suspicions – together. And we need to do the same if we’re going to survive, because the enemy is real. It’s always been real”

Jon finds quite the revelation in the caves of Dragonstone that have been harboring obsidian all this time – drawings on the walls from the Children of the Forest (12) depicts White Walkers. He shows them to Dany and tells her how the Children and the First Men fought together against a common enemy, and her and Jon should, too.

7. Jon Snow

“But when enough people make false promises words stop meaning anything. Then there are no more answers, only better and better (14) lies”

In an (10) attempt to justify him losing Cersei’s support with the reluctance to tell a lie, Jon says this pretty awesome quote which you do have to believe. But Jon, you should have lied.

8. Ygritte

"You know nothing, Jon Snow."

This one's basically now reached meme status, but it also has a (1) poignant edge to it (it's the last thing Ygritte says to Jon before she dies, after all).

Match the words to the right definitions:

1. Poignant
2. Lie
3. Predict
4. Depth
5. Stare
6. Whisper
7. Brood
8. Whilst
9. Betray
10. Attempt
11. Gaze
12. Depict
13. Realm
14. Lie
15. Poison

(   ) kill with something destructive or fatal
(   ) convey false information or image
(   ) while
(   ) incisive
(   ) look steadily with fixed attention
(   ) speak softly; say secretly
(   ) be false or disloyal; deceive
(   ) Kingdom
(   ) think about (something) persistently or moodily
(   ) make known in advance
(   ) look directly and fixedly
(   ) describe
(   ) try, make an effort to achieve
(   ) be placed
(   ) low point, level or degree

Key

Poison - kill with something destructive or fatal

Lie - be placed

Realm - Kingdom

Depth - low point, level or degree

Gaze - look steadily with fixed attention

Whisper - speak softly; say secretly

Betray - be false or disloyal; deceive

Whilst - while

Brood - think about (something) persistently or moodily

Predict - make known in advance

Stare - look directly and fixedly

Depict - describe

Attempt - try, make an effort to achieve

Lie - convey false information or image

Poignant - incisive

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Citações foram extraídas dos artigos da Mashable.com e do GoatofThrones.com.

Lígia Velozo Crispino, fundadora e sócia-diretora da Companhia de Idiomas. Graduada em Letras e Tradução pela Unibero. Curso de Business English em Boston pela ELC e extensões na área de Marketing na ESPM, FGV e Insper. Coautora do Guia de Implantação de Programas de Idiomas em empresas e autora do livro de poemas Fora da Linha. Colunista do portal Vagas Profissões. Mobilizadora cultural à frente do Sarau Conversar na Livraria Martins Fontes.
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