Question

My plans for the future

I will work in a big city and I will be rich. I will have a happy life and I will have a beautiful wife – my wife will have six children. My children will love me and I will love my children. I won’t have serious problems and I won’t feel down every day. I will work from Monday to Saturday - on Sundays, I won’t work. My wife will help me and I will help her. We will be more than husband and wife: we will be best friends. I will have a great job and I will love my job. My family will be a very special family and we will love each other. In our family, there will be peace, love, faith, dedication, respect and sincerity. This is my dream.

Allan Jones

1 - Answer the questions – Responda as perguntas, elas podem ser em português.

A. Where will Allan Jones work?

B. Will Allan Jones be rich?

C. Do you think Allan’s dream is possible? Explain your answer.

SCHOOLS OF THE FUTURE: WHAT WILL THEY LOOK LIKE?

Technology and other recent social changes are affecting the way we learn, and schools of the future will need to adjust to those new ways of learning.

Experts say that, in the future, school rooms will need to have the flexibility to enable pupils and teachers to engage in different types of learning and recreational activities. In other words, rooms will have to be flexible enough to be used in different ways. Folding doors and moveable partitions will allow teachers and students to alter room shapes and sizes according to different circumstances. If there is a talk by a local businessperson or community worker, the “walls” can be removed to create a larger room; if it is time to do some independent or small-group work, the “walls” can be used again to create a quiet working environment.

It is easier to achieve flexibility if all rooms have more or less the same proportions and standard shapes. Also, furniture will be kept to a minimum and it will be moved around daily to suit different activities. The same will happen with equipment: boards will not be placed on walls but they will move around on wheels. And say goodbye to black or white boards: they will be replaced by interactive white boards which can work as a computer screen or as a traditional board.

Some of these changes are already taking place in some schools around the world. What do you think about them? Will they make schools a better place to learn?

2) What option translates the title of the text?

a. Escolas do futuro: do que elas vão gostar?

b. Escolas do futuro: como elas serão?

c. Escolas do futuro: elas olharão o quê?

2) Find the corresponding English words in the text.

Paragraph 1: aprender, mudanças, precisar, aprendizagem

Paragraph 2: especialistas, suficiente, dobráveis, móvel/transferível, ambiente, em outras palavras, permitir, envolver-se

Paragraph 3: formas, móveis/mobília, adequar-se, rodas, substituídos, tela

Answer 1

1)

a) Big City.

b) No.

C) No, because they are unrealistic dreams.

2)

B) Escolas do futuro: como elas serão?

3)

a) Learn, changes, need, learn

b) Experts, changes, need, learning

c) experts, sufficient, foldable, mobile/transferable, environment, in other words, allow, engage.

d) forms, furniture, fit out, wheels, replaced, screen