Question

Atividade 3



Read the text and answer questions 1 and 2.





1) O tema do texto é:



a) Down syndrome. b) Normal teenager. c) Know me before.

d)You judge me. e) family values.



2) No trecho: “But I’m a normal teenager.” A palavra destacada significa em português:



a) criança. b) adulto. c) menina. d) adolescente. e) garoto.













3) O gênero do texto é:



a) magazine cover. b) website. c) comic strip. d) blog. e) fable.



4) O que o guarda diz na entrada do zoológico aos três primeiros personagens?



a) Não pegue nos animais. b) Alimente os animais.

c) Não brinque com os animais. d) Não alimente os animais.

e) Afaste-se dos animais.



Lara Croft



You may know of Lara Croft from the movie Tomb Raider. But the character Lara Croft was popular before the 2001 movie. In fact, Lara Croft is the main character in a video game. Introduced in 1996, Tomb Raider the video game was an instant hit. People liked this new character. She was strong, smart, and female - quite different from all the other male action heroes around at that time. Besides now appearing in movies, Lara Croft also has her own comic books series.



5. O texto é sobre

a) a famous movie star.

b) an adventure series.

c) a famous female hero.

d) a new video game.



6. De acordo com o texto, por que Tomb Raider foi um sucesso instantâneo?



a) The main character was different from heroes before.

b) There was a lot of action in the game.

c) The main hero was very smart.

d) There were many interesting heroes in the game.



Questão 7



How and when was English formed?



There is and old cliché in linguistics that a language is a dialect with an army and a navy behind it. This isn't just a gag. Defining when a new language is born is harder than say when a caterpillar becomes a butterfly. In the process by which a dialect becomes a language there is no easy empirical equivalent of the point when the butterfly emerges from the larva able to take off. So no linguist can look back and say: “That's it, Wednesday 5 may 1213, that's when the English language finally got wings.”

Norman Roberts, professor of linguistics in Hawaii University, says: “A language is such a complex structure it can't come into being at once. New languages develop out of older ones but it isn't easy to say, when the new and the old are so different, when a new language is born.”

Benji Wald, an expert in linguistics at the University of California, says: “It's difficult to say when English was born but before it there was another language, the language from which Dutch and German come. The English we speak today is so different from old English we could call it a different language, but we don't. We just call it a newer form of English.”

Although English belongs to the Germanic language family, it has become a strange cocktail with words imported from the country's invaders and, today, from this country's largest ex-colony. Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Danes and Normans all made their mark.



(LIBERATO, Wilson Antonio. Inglês doorway: vol. único: Ensino Médio /

Wilson Liberato – S. Paulo: FTD, 2004. Coleção Delta, pág. 19)



Glossário



gag = joke (piada "de comediante")

damn = to declare (something) to be bad, frustating (droga)

caterpillar = larva of a butterfly (lagarta)

empirical = something derived from observation or experiment (empírico)

take off = rise from the ground; begin a flight (decolar, tornar-se um sucesso)

at once = immediately (imediatamente, de uma só vez)

although = in spite of the fact that; admitting that (embora)

belong = be the property of; be the possession of (pertencer a alguém/algo, ser membro/sócio de algo)

cocktail = an alcoholic drink mixed with fruit juices (coquetel)

Dane = a native of Denmark (Dinamarquês, Dinamarquesa)



Marque as afirmações que estão de acordo com o texto (há quatro alternativas corretas)



a) Uma língua depende das instituições militares que estão por trás dela.



b) Todas as línguas têm suas datas de nascimento bem definidas.



c) O surgimento de uma língua é semelhante ao nascimento de uma borboleta.



d) A língua inglesa nasceu no dia 5 de maio de 1213, numa quarta - feira.



e) Por terem estruturas complexas, novas línguas não nascem de repente.



f) Uma língua se desenvolve a partir de outra ou de outras já existentes.



g) A língua inglesa se modificou muito ao longo dos séculos.

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Answer 1

1- alternativa A, Down syndrome


2- alternativa D, adolescente


3- alternativa C, comic strip


4- não alimente os animais


Espero ter ajudado;)