PRESENT CONTINOUS TEXTO PARA A PRXIMA QUESTO (Faap) TOMORROW'S WORLD This text is going to be a little different.

It's about predictions. What is going to happen tomorrow? What will the future bring? Things like that. Optimists and pessimists have their own answers. We are going to know what they are. Then you are going to decide which group (optimists or pessimists) made each prediction. You are also going to give your own opinion about each prediction (whether you consider it possible or impossible to happen). - The City of the Future will have a roof - a huge geodesic dome that will cover the buildings and population. - Man will invent a kind of machine that will be able to think. - We'll be able to go to the Moon and to the planets. Scientists will live and work in space colonies. - The population of the world will exceed 10 billion people before the beginning of the next century. - There will be wars in every part of the world. - Medical science will find a cure for several different diseases before the year 2000. - We'll have a lot of free time because computers will do much of our work. - Nuclear energy will be safe. There won't be any danger of accidents. - Noise and air pollution will belong to the past. - Big cities will continue to grow and there won't be enough food for everybody. How many of these predictions do you consider possible? Are you an optimist or a pessimist? 1. Complete com palavras do texto: The population of the world is .......... . a) going b) covering c) finding d) growing e) beginning TEXTO PARA A PRXIMA QUESTO (Fei) Battling the Bloodlines 1 It's the small things the Brazilians do that annoy some Japanese in Toyota City. The immigrants don't throw their garbage where they are supposed to. They gather outside and play loud music at night. They play a strange card game that involves yelling "Truco!" at the top of their lungs. To Japanese in one densely populated public housing complex, it feels as if the foreigners are closing in on them, the smoke from the barbecues suffocating them, the Latin music drowning out an imagined tranquility. Ten years ago there were 200 Brazilians in the complex. Today there are 3,500. "The sidewalks are getting narrower," said a Japanese woman as she maneuvered a grocery cart through a gathering of Brazilian families. "There's no room for us anymore," said her friend. 2 Foreigners of any stripe can be upsetting in Japan, where conformity is a national creed and wa, the concept of harmony, is integral to maintaining stability and peace in a country of 126 million people crowded onto four islands. "I don't think it's a good idea to concentrate Brazilians in one place," said Masae Matsui. Two years ago, a residents' association Matsui headed proposed restricting the number of foreigners in his public housing complex; in April, he was elected to the city assembly. 3 The dark side of "wa", the part that excludes outsiders, erupted into violence earlier this summer in Toyota City, home to thousands of workers of the carmaker Toyota, its subsidiaries and suppliers. After a dispute with a noodle vendor got out of hand, about 100 supporters of a right-wing nationalist group paraded around the public housing complex where 3,500 Brazilians live. They shouted through a loud--speaker, "Foreigners go home," taunted the Brazilians to come out and fight and waved metal pipes in the air. Time

2. Na expresso "The sidewalks are GETTING narrower" (par. 1) voc poderia substituir GETTING por: a) closing b) having c) beginning d) coming e) becoming 3. Fill in with the Present Continuous Tense of the verbs in parentheses: (Complete com o Present Continuous Tense dos verbos em parenteses) a) I ____________________ my black pencils. (count - contar) b) Joe ___________________ to school now. (go - ir) c) Mary ____________________ to Brenda now. (talk - conversar) d) The teachers __________________ at their students. (look at - olhar) e) I ____________________ some milk right now. (drink - beber)

4. (Fuvest) Transcreva, usando o tempo verbal adequado a uma ao presente: John usually (to study) very hard. In fact, whenever I (to see) him he (to study) something. 5. Complete the sentences with The Present Continuous or The Simple Present: a) The students always _________________ school at 12:05, but today they ______________ at 11:15. (to leave) b) My brother ____________________ English twice a week. (to study)

6. Complete with Simple Present or Present Continuous (Progressive) Smith always_______________ to class on time. a) is coming b) comes c) come d) cames e) had come 7. Complete with Simple Present or Present Continuous (Progressive) Today he _______________ jeans and T-shirts, but he usually _______________ a suit at work. a) is wearing / wears b) wears / is wearing c) wearing / wear d) wear / are wearing e) has wearing / wearing

8. Complete with Simple Present or Present Continuous (Progressive) She generally _______________ the piano, but at present she _______________ the guitar. a) is playing / plays b) is plaing / plays c) plays / is playing d) playing / are playing e) plays / is plaing 9. (Unesp) Assinale a alternativa que preenche corretamente cada lacuna da frase apresentada. I __________ to the radio every day, but I __________ listening to it now. a) listen ... am not b) listened ... had c) listening ... was not d) was listening ... not e) not listen ... was 10. (Unesp) Assinale a alternativa correta. Many countries ______ with nuclear reactors. a) is experimenting b) experiments c) experimenting d) would experiment e) are experimenting

GABARITO 1. [D] 5. [E] 6. [B] 3. a) I'M COUNTING my black pencils. (count - contar) b) Joe IS GOING to school now. (go - ir) c) Mary IS TALKING to Brenda now. (talk - conversar) d) The teachers ARE LOOKING at their students. (look at - olhar) e) I AM DRINKING some milk right now. (drink - beber) 4. John usually studies very hard. In fact, whenever I see him he is studying something. 5. a) The students always LEAVE school at 12:05, but today they ARE LEAVING at 11:15. b) My brother STUDIES English twice a week. 6. [B] 7. [A] 8. [C] 9. [A] 10. [E]