PRÁTICA ORAL EM LÍNGUA INGLESA II AULA 10

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1.
		► Which of the following headlines, taken from The New York Times in October 2015, is related to sports?
	
	
	
	President to visit China next month
	
	
	Cutting Sugar Improves Children's Health in Just 10 Days
	
	
	Royals Outlast Mets in Epic Start to Series
	
	
	Greenland Is Melting Away
	
	
	Touring the Dark Side of Los Angeles
	
Explicação: Royals Outlast Mets in Epic Start to Series (Royals and Mets are American baseball teams) Greenland Is Melting Away (science) What to Look for in the Republican Debate (politics) Cutting Sugar Improves Children¿s Health in Just 10 Days (health) Touring the Dark Side of Los Angeles (Tourism)
	
	
	
	 
		
	
		2.
		Based on the topics covered in our classes, we can say the main difference between NEWS and CURRENT EVENTS is that (choose the right option):
	
	
	
	there is no difference between the two
	
	
	news is always presented in written form
	
	
	current events are abstract and news is concrete
	
	
	current events concern with important people only
	
	
	not all current events make it to the news
	
Explicação:
News is different from current events because not all current events make it to the news. For a current event to become News, someone or a reporter must have taken interest in the spread of such event. If not a current event may occur without ever getting into the news until later in the future. In the same way, not all news item are current events. A person may be interested in an old story. Digging up age long information about remarkable stories becomes news. So an event need not be a current event before it becomes news.
	
	
	
	 
		
	
		3.
		It is extremely unlikely to find pieces of news in ____________________
	
	
	
	a magazine
	
	
	a pamphlet
	
	
	the radio
	
	
	a newspaper
	
	
	the internet
	
Explicação:
Pamphlets are more suitable to provide information (on a product, a cause, an idea) and not to spread news.
A pamphlet is an unbound booklet It may consist of a single sheet of paper that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths, called a leaflet, or it may consist of a few pages that are folded in half and saddle stapled at the crease to make a simple book.
	
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		4.
		When we talk about current events, we use verb forms that are compatible with this necessity of expressions.  Such as when we use Present Continuous, for example. Choose the alternative that IS NOT CORRECT in relation to this verb tense:
 
	
	
	
	to show that something in the present is temporary.
Example:
We are living in a rented flat at present.
My wife usually goes in to the office, but she is working at home today.
	
	
	for ongoing actions.
Example:
I am taking a test right now.
I am still thinking about the question.
	
	
	for something happening before and after the moment of speaking.
Example
I can not hear you. I am listening to my iPod.
Be quiet. The children are sleeping.
	
	
	for something that started in the past and is still true.
Example
I have met her already.
I have never been to London.
 
	
	
	for something happening regularly in the present before and after a given time.
Example:
I am usually getting ready for work at eight o'clock.
Whenever I see George, he's always reading his newspaper.
	
Explicação:
The alternative is not about Present Continuos. It is Present Perfect which does not express an action that is current.
	
	
	
	 
		
	
		5.
		Which of the following IS NOT a 21st Century event?
	
	
	
	The Vietnam War
	
	
	Hurricane Katrina
	
	
	BP Gulf Oil Spill
	
	
	Obama´s election and reelection
	
	
	Terrorist attack in NYC
	
Explicação:
The Vietnam War also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
	
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		6.
		When we talk about current events, we use verb forms that are compatible with this necessity of expressions.  Such as when we use Present Simple, for example.
Choose the alternative tha IS NOT CORRECT in relation to this verb tense:
 
	
	
	
	to talk about things which are connected with the past.
Example:
He lived in Rome when he was young.
 
 
	
	
	to talk about something happening regularly in the present.
Example:
The children come home from school at about four.
We often see your brother at work.
	
	
	to talk about something happening continually in the present.
Example:
They live next door to us.
He works for the Post Office.
 
	
	
	to talk about things which are generally true.
Example:
Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius.
The Nile is the longest river in Africa.
 
	
	
	
to talk about a situation that we think is more or less permanent.
Example:
Where do you live?
She works in a bank.
	
Explicação:
The alternative presents a verb in past tense, meaning an action that took place in past time.