AULA 04 LEITURA E REDAÇÃO EM LÍNGUA INGLESA

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LEITURA E REDAÇÃO EM LÍNGUA INGLESA
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		1.
		Leia o texto com atenção e, usando a técnica da inferência, assinale a alternativa que indica para que a palavra STAYCATION é usada:
 Staying Home for the Holidays: Strapped vacationers are discovering the attractions in their own backyards. Bad news for the global economy. 
 Sophie Grove | NEWSWEEK/Published May 2, 2009
 Juliet Murrell has packed her suitcase. But she's not going anywhere. The 28-year-old interior designer is vacationing at home this year. Murrell, who usually travels to southern France and beyond, is embarking on a "staycation," taking a fortnight off work to swim, cycle and explore areas of her own city, East London, a former industrial zone that has a gritty charm but is hardly the Côte d'Azur. "You have to wake up in the morning with the spirit of adventure," she says. "It's about mentally reviving yourself and your environment." As the pound weakens to near parity with the euro, scores of Britons are canceling their trips to the Mediterranean or the French Riviera and braving the notoriously unpredictable weather at home.
	
	
	
	to express the parity between the pound and the euro in money market nowadays
	
	
	As a slang to define Londoners long vacations ahead
	
	
	nominate a mental travel throughout Europe
	
	
	as a slang to define the way Londoners are spending their holidays: at home
	
	
	as a synonym to Cote d¿Azur, southern France and East London
		2.
		READ the story below:
Long ago, there lived a pig that was given plenty of good food to eat each day. Needless to say, the pig was quite satisfied with his life. Satisfied, that is, until one morning when the farmer's wife brought his food and said, "Enjoy this good food while you can, dear pig. For you shan't be around much longer!"
► Make a prediction: What does the farmer's wife most likely tell the pig next?
	
	
	
	"We will be giving you away."
	
	
	"We are moving to another farm!"
	
	
	"When next we meet, you will be on our dinner table!"
	
	
	"You are being sold to a pet store!"
	
	
	"We will put you on a diet because you are getting fat!"
		3.
		Leia o texto com atenção e assinale a alternativa que expressa a intenção de Stacey ao dizer: "I mentally scheduled time to clean up the rogue and glitter."
MEMORABLE MOTHER'S DAY MESSES
 By KitchenDaily Editors  www.aol.com
Everything in the Bathroom Sink - Reader Stacey Anne Yates says her son, Wyatt, takes holidays very seriously, especially Mother's Day, and always presents her with a card and a homemade snack. "When Wyatt was six years old, he disappeared into the bathroom promising me a surprise," Stacey relates. "I figured the bathroom had become his card making lair and I mentally scheduled time to clean up the rogue glue and glitter. Twenty minutes later, he popped out very pleased with his Mother's Day surprise. He darted into the kitchen and returned with two spoons. With spoons in hand he led me, eyes closed, into the bathroom. SURPRISE! Wyatt had made me Macaroni & Cheese in his small bathroom sink. You know the stuff: the box of noodles with the dried cheese packet. Now imagine that orange powder embedded in the tile grout and the noodles expanding in the P-trap. Not to mention the butter that was "hand stirred" into the concoction and spread across most of the bathroom's surfaces and the towels. YUM! He was so proud of his mushy cheesy masterpiece that I had no choice but to dig in. It was a plumber's nightmare but an unforgettable Mother's Day meal."
What did Stacey mean when she said: "I mentally scheduled time to clean up the rogue and glitter."
	
	
	
	She thought it would be a nice and creative surprise.
	
	
	She thought her son would make no mess at all.
	
	
	She thought Wyatt would gave her a beautiful card.
	
	
	She thought it would be hard to clean up the mess.
	
	
	She thought the bathroom would be cleaned by Wyatt.
		4.
		Leia com atenção a situação abaixo e relacione-a com a técnica de leitura a qual se assemelha, assinalando a respectiva opção: You decide to buy your mom a book for her birthday. During lunchtime, you visit the closest bookstore and start reading the back of some books so to decide the best one to buy her. When doing so, which reading subskill are you applying?
	
	
	
	reading for detail
	
	
	intensive reading
	
	
	scanning
	
	
	extensive reading
	
	
	skimming
		5.
		Match each reading technique to its definition
1. Prediction (Predição)______
2. Visuals (Inferência visual)_______
3. Guessing (Adivinhar, deduzir, interpretar significados)_______
a. When you use this strategy, you are able to create hypotheses about the themes you are going to read about in the texts. Afterwards, when you read the texts, you can agree or modify your first impressions about them.
b. During the process of a text comprehension written in foreign language, the reader should try to understand all unknown words in the context they are employed. Then, we should consider: The text subject; everything the reader knows about the subject; grammatical relations.
c. Elements such as titles, dates, subtitles, illustrations, photos, diagrams, charts, bold types, quotation marks, different types of letters, etc. are important to help the reader to make inferences and logical deductions.
	
	
	
	1(c), 2(b), 3(a)
	
	
	1(b), 2(a), 3(c)
	
	
	1(a), 2(c), 3(c)
	
	
	1(a), 2(c), 3(b)
	
	
	1(b), 2(c), 3(a)
		6.
		Leia o texto com atenção e assinale a alternativa que explica o por que, de acordo com o mesmo texto, uma pessoa acima do peso se sente inferior perante a sociedade:
Fat Kids, Cruel World
By Lesley Kinzel | Newsweek Web Exclusive Apr 20, 2010
 After a decade of dieting, false hopes, and dead ends, I was out of options. I was an obese child, now assured of a life as an obese adult. The path I ultimately chose was self-acceptance. I chose to shed self-hatred and to respect myself, something I'd never done before. It was a long time coming; it didn't happen in a week or even a year. But I came to realize that it wasn't my fatness that made me hate exercise; it was the social expectations associated with being fat that did so. It wasn't my fatness that made me feel inferior to and isolated from people I met; it was the cultural ideology which dictated that fat people are lonely, miserable, and unloved.
 
	
	
	
	Eating more food than regular weight people and spending much more money on this heavy diet.
	
	
	Feeling hungry all the time and never being satisfied, as they are always looking for more food.
	
	
	Having to shop for clothes in specialized stores and feeling that fashion is not suitable for fat people.
	
	
	The cultural ideology which dictates that fat people are different and full of negative problems
	
	
	Going to the gym and facing skinny and healthy fellows who never seems to be lonely or upset.
		7.
		A son writes ... Last week I asked my Mum if I could go to a rock festival. No',shesaid,the music will be too loud ... there'll be crowds of people ... you won't know anybody ...'. These excuses were so lame I decided there was some other secret reason why she didn't want me to go. After all, this is the first time my mum has ever shown any concern about the dangers of loud music. I think the real reason Mum is worried about my going to the festival is that my friends and I will have to survive by ourselves for a couple of days. This might not sound like much of a challenge, but surviving means preparing food as well as eating it, putting tents up as well as sleeping in them ... Mum has obviously realized that if I went to the festival I would soon find out how totally dependent on her I am. And once I realized how incapable I am of surviving on my own, I would never leave homeagain. Then Mum would have a pathetic teenager / adult under her feet for the rest of her life.
Choose a, b, or c, in each question below. Only one choice is correct. The son wanted to go to the festival for ...
	
	
	
	two days with his friends.
	
	
	a month
	
	
	a couple of weekends.
	
	
	two days alone.
	
	
	two days at home.
		8.
		Leia o texto abaixo e assinale a alternativa que explica por que "The legacy of environmental catastrophes is, instead, a hybrid of amnesia and habituation":
HOW QUICKLY WE FORGET
 OUR ADDICTION TO CHEAP ENERGY HAS A WAY OF CLOUDING MEMORIES OF EVEN THE MOST VIVID DISASTERS
By Sharon Begley | NEWSWEEK Published May 7, 2010
The legacy of environmental catastrophes is, instead, a hybrid of amnesia and habituation. That is, the public forgets more quickly now than in the past, and understands that no source of energy is risk-free. Coal kills miners, including the 25 in West Virginia last month. Natural-gas pipelines sometimes explode and occasionally kill, as in a 2000 accident that left 12 people dead in New Mexico. Nuclear reactors, despite industry assurances, will never be risk-free; no technology is. The "risks" of renewable such as wind and solar are higher energy prices, which too many people are less acceptable than the environmental and human costs of fossil fuel. "There has been a generational change in risk tolerance," says engineering professor Henry Petroski of Duke University, author of the 2010 book The Essential Engineer. "The public has become more familiar with the concept of risk, and the fact that it is ubiquitous. The bumper sticker S--T HAPPENS used to be a fringe phenomenon, but now it's mainstream: people have become resigned to risk."
	
	
	
	People are very concerned about the risks of energy production.
	
	
	Our addiction to cheap energy made us too tolerant to the risks of energy production.
	
	
	Governments and society are planning new ways of obtaining cheap energy.
	
	
	These diseases are caused by long hours of work in coal mines.
	
	
	These diseases are caused by long hours of work in natural-gas pipelines.