EXERCICIO AULA 4

Prévia do material em texto

1.
		Leia o texto abaixo e responda a pergunta que o segue.
Autumn is the season that falls between summer and winter. There are many changes that begin in this fascinating season. Days become shorter. Leaves of trees turn from green to vibrant red, yellow and orange. Trees need sunlight to keep their leaves a lively green. Without sunlight leaves turn colors. The grass is no longer blanketed with dew but with frost, almost every morning, as temperatures reach the freezing point. Animals start storing up a food supply to last through the long winter months. These changes occur as we adjust from the heat of the summer to the chill of the winter.
Qual das seguintes mudanças pode ocorrer no Outono?
	
	
	
	snow fall's very often.
	
	
	days become shorter
	
	
	there is more sunlight
	
	
	days become longer
	
	
	it becomes very hot
	
Explicação:
Autumn is the season that falls between summer and winter. There are many changes that begin in this fascinating season. Days become shorter. Leaves of trees turn from green to vibrant red, yellow and orange.
	
	
	
	 
		
	
		2.
		Leia atenciosamente o texto baixo.
American Customs
America is well-known for its equality, liberty, fraternity. Everyone is very friendly and informal. Children often call their parents by their first names and at work, subordinates do not normally use "Mister" when addressing their supervisors. To those visitors who come from a more rigid and stratified society, such casualness can be confusing, leading to egregious blunders. Conversely, many worldly, sophisticated Americans appear mortified because they feel America is not "civilized," with a capital "C." However, we know of terribly embarrassing incidents from mistakes which only an innocent foreigner would have made.
De acordo com o sentido do texto podemos afirmar que:
	
	
	
	Americans are friendly, but they do not like to mix up
	
	
	Americans are snobish and elitist.
	
	
	Americans are well-known for its equality, liberty, fraternity and informal
	
	
	Americans are quite formal people
	
	
	Americans are well-known for their selfishness.
	
Explicação:
America is well-known for its equality, liberty, fraternity. Everyone is very friendly and informal.
	
	
	
	 
		
	
		3.
		Leia o texto com atenção o anúncio e assinale a alternativa incorreta em relação ao que foi lido:
 (The New York Times) SECRETARY Leading architectural, engineering, and planning firm is seeking an entry-level secretary/receptionist for immediate replacement. Responsibilities include report preparation, correspondence, travel arrangements, and answering phones. The ideal candidate must have excellent client contact and organizational skills, as well as Microsoft Word and Excel. Bilingual (English/Spanish) a plus. Position offers a complete benefit package and salary is commensurate with experience. Please send/fax resume by November 11th to: STV/SILVER & ZISKIND 233 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10003 FAX: 212-473-2780 Attn: V. Hall For more information on STV, visit our Web site: http://www.stvinc.com/
 Mark the incorrect statement:
	
	
	
	The candidates should apply by e-mailing their resume.
	
	
	The selected candidate will be hired immediately.
	
	
	The advertisement was published in the newspaper by a big firm.
	
	
	The firm promisses a fair salary and other advantages.
	
	
	The candidates should have various language skills.
	
Explicação:
Please send/fax resume by November 11th to: STV/SILVER & ZISKIND 233 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10003 FAX: 212-473-2780 Attn: V. Hall For more information on STV, visit our Web site: http://www.stvinc.com/
	
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		4.
		Leia o texto com atenção e assinale a razão apontada para o autor como sendo a responsável por manter a religião viva no coração humano. .
World Religions
 From the earliest known the evidence of human religion by Homo sapiens neanderthalensis around 100,000 years ago to the present day, religion continues to be a very influential aspect of human lives. Today, there are numerous challenges and problems faced by humans from every possible background, location and social class. Every day people must face issues of health, safety and mortality. It is because of these daily challenges that religion continues to exist. Religion is the universal tool for explaining things which we do not understand through the context the known physical world. Although there are countless religions, each different from the other, they all serve the same purpose. Each answers questions which all humans seem to be programmed to ask: Why are we here?
	
	
	
	Different backgrounds are a plausible reason.
	
	
	Religion can explain things that cannot be understood by human mind.
	
	
	Violence and stress motivgate people to look for comfort in religion.
	
	
	Everyday challenges and problems faced by humans.
	
	
	Fear from eternal damnation make people run to churches.
	
Explicação:
Today, there are numerous challenges and problems faced by humans from every possible background, location and social class. Every day people must face issues of health, safety and mortality. It is because of these daily challenges that religion continues to exist.
	
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		5.
		READ the text below:
 
Success at making inferences depends on the background knowledge and the facts given in the text. Logical reasoning will help you to make inferences about ideas or concepts that the author has not directly stated.
Source: http://studylib.net/doc/7843494/reading-strategies
 
Consider the following situation: 
''Mike is a student in Professor Brown's Biology class. Class starts at 9 a.m. It is now 9.15 a.m. and Professor Brown is speaking to the class. Mike opens the door and walks into the classroom''.
Based on the previous situatio, we may infer that (choose the correct option):
	
	
	
	The professor started the class at 9 a.m. sharp. .
	
	
	Mike is late
	
	
	The class is listening
	
	
	Professor Brown teaches Biology
	
	
	Mike is a student.
	
Explicação:
An inference is a conclusion that you draw about something by using information that you already have about it.
Class starts at 9 a.m. It is now 9.15 a.m. and Professor Brown is speaking to the class. Mike opens the door and walks into the classroom'
	
	
	
	 
		
	
		6.
		Leia a afirmação abaixo e assinale a alternativa que está de acordo com o seu conteúdo: Only a few Brazilian artists are as internationally successful as Rodrigo Santoro.
	
	
	
	Only a few brazilian artists have succeeded abroad
	
	
	Rodrigo Santoro is not successful abroad.
	
	
	Many brazilina artists are known around the world.
	
	
	All Brazilian artists are internationally famous.
	
	
	Rodrigo Santoro is the only internationally successful artist.
	
Explicação:
Only a few Brazilian artists are as internationally successful as Rodrigo Santoro.
	
	
	
	 
		
	
		7.
		"Students are given access to data, and are provided with structured opportunities to work out rules, principles and, so on for themselves. The concept here is that information will be more deeply processed and stored if learners are given an opportunity to work things out for themselves, rather than simply being told."
The text above is about:
	
	
	
	inferencing
	
	
	inductive reasoning
	
	
	predicting
	
	
	classifying
	
	
	previewing
	
Explicação:
We are exposed to several different examples of a situation, and from those examples, we conclude ageneral truth. For instance, you visit your local grocery store daily to pick up necessary items. You notice that on Friday, two weeks ago, all the clerks in the store were wearing football jerseys. Again, last Friday, the clerks wore their football jerseys. Today, also a Friday, they're wearing them again. From just these observations, you can conclude that on all Fridays, these supermarket employees will wear football jerseys to support their local team.
This type of pattern recognition, leading to a conclusion, is known as inductive reasoning.
	
	
	
	 
		
	
		8.
		Leia com atenção a situação abaixo e relacione-a com a técnica de leitura a qual se assemelha, assinalando a respectiva opção: When you look for a number in a telephone directory, you do not read all the text. Instead, you prefer to hurry over the text until you find the information you want. When doing so, which reading subskill are you applying?
	
	
	
	skimming
	
	
	intensive reading
	
	
	scanning
	
	
	reading for gist
	
	
	extensive reading
	
Explicação:
Scanning helps the reader obtain information from the text without need reading all text. It is a quick preview of the text, you just read the information contained in that space. You do the scanning moving your eyes from up to down and vice-verse, looking for the main words, or specific phrases or key words, etc. When you are doing the scanning pay attention to the punctuations of the author, such us, marks with numbers, letters, asterisk, etc. Look for underlined word, words in bold, in italic, different sizes of letters or words. This process is useful, like already said, for whom wants to find specific information, such as, a name, a date of birth, a phone number in a list, a word in a dictionary and so on.