Professor Dilermando Moraes Costa Língua inglesa ECE 1ª série

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ATIVIDADE ASSÍNCRONA II – TERCEIRO BIMESTRE

Tema gerador: Preconceito.

Proposta temática da aula: leituras de matérias sobre a obra da autora Amanda Hocking.
Conteúdo: prática de leitura e de interpretação; present simple tense (negative and interrogative
forms).

1. Antes de ler os textos, reflita:

a. Você cultiva o hábito da leitura? Se sim, o que gosta de ler?

b. Algum livro impactou significativamente a sua vida?
c. Você gosta de ler trilogias?
d. Você conhece os livros da escritora Amanda Hocking?

2. Você consegue associar os nomes das criaturas “fantásticas” e as definições em inglês?

a. Troll d. Witch g. Mermaid

b. Changeling e. Ghost h. Ogre
c. Vampire f. Werewolf i. Angel

( ) a cruel and frightening giant who eats people.

( ) a dead person who leaves their grave (= where they are buried) at night to bite living
people and drink their blood.
( ) a creature with a woman’s head and body, and a fish’s tail instead of legs.
( ) a person who sometimes changes into a wolf, especially at the time of the full moon.
( ) a child who is believed to have been secretly left in exchange for another.
( ) the spirit of a dead person that a living person believes they can see or hear.
( ) a creature that looks like an ugly person.
( ) a spirit who is believed to be a servant of God, and is sent by God to deliver a message
or perform a task.
( ) a woman who is believed to have magic powers, especially to do evil things.

TEXT 1: SYNOPSIS OF THE BOOK SWITCHED BY AMANDA HOCKING

Disponível em:<https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/amanda-hocking/switched/9781447210283> Acesso
em: 09 fev. 2021.

Switched is the first novel in Amanda Hocking's bestselling trilogy, Trylle.

Wendy Everly knew she was different the day her mother tried to kill her and accused her of
having been switched at birth. Although certain she's not the monster her mother claimed she
is, she does feel that she doesn't quite fit in.
She's bored and frustrated by her small-town life - and then there's the secret she can't tell
anyone. Her mysterious ability - she can influence people's decisions, without knowing how, or
why ...
When the intense and darkly handsome newcomer Finn suddenly turns up at her bedroom
window one night, her world is turned upside down. He holds the key to her past, the answers
to her strange powers and is the doorway to a place she never imagined could exist: Förening,
the home of the Trylle.
Finally everything makes sense. Among the Trylle she is not just different, but special. But
what marks her out as chosen for greatness in this world also places her in grave danger. With
everything around her changing, Finn is the only person she can trust. But dark forces are
conspiring - not only to separate them, but to see the downfall of everything that Wendy cares
about.
The fate of Förening rests in Wendy's hands, and the decisions she and Finn make could change
all their lives forever ...

1. Como o texto apresenta o livro Switched?

2. Qual o primeiro conflito apresentado no livro?

3. Qual segredo faz parte da vida da personagem principal?

4. O que muda na vida de Wendy ao conhecer o povo Trylle (trolls)?

 TEXT 2: THE RELAUNCH OF AMANDA HOCKING

Disponível em:< https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/15/books/review/switched-by-amanda-hocking-book-

review.html> Acesso em: 09 fev. 2021.

At the time of its first official paperback release, “Switched,” by Amanda Hocking, the much-
celebrated darling of self-publishing, will already have sold more than a million copies.
Hocking’s rise to self-publishing stardom has been so well chronicled — The New York Times
Magazine did a lengthy profile of her and her success in the e-book market — that it’s
impossible to read “Switched” outside the context of its already gargantuan success. As a result,
the question of its value, and whether the book is any good, gets entangled with the question of
whether it merits all the hype.
The answer is complex and could be posed of practically any of today’s most commercial
writers. “Switched” is heavy on story and light on style, and Hocking takes advantage of the
most common conventions of the genre rather than defying them. She knows how to keep
readers turning the pages; and she generates suspense by carefully, if artificially, controlling
how and when certain answers are revealed.
“Switched” is the story of Wendy Everly, who discovers at 17 that she is actually a troll (or a
“Trylle,” per Hocking’s nomenclature), thus proving correct her mother’s longtime assertion
that she is a changeling. Exchanged with a human baby as an infant, attacked and nearly killed
by a mother who recognizes her for what she is, Wendy is raised by a foster family until she is
recalled by Finn, a kind of ambassador of the troll community, known as a “tracker.”
[...] Trolls are certainly an underexploited portion of the marketplace, largely because in popular
imagination, and simply put, trolls aren’t sexy. Of course, in Hocking’s world — and for her
book to work — trolls are actually beautiful, thin and “foxy.” The only similarity these Trylle
bear to the trolls of, say, the Three Billy Goats Gruff story, is a slight greenish cast to the skin,
mentioned only in passing.
But ultimately, originality isn’t the point; in “Switched,” Hocking riffs on the conventions of
the paranormal teenage and romance genres. Actually, riffing — which suggests subtlety and
subversion — may be the wrong term. This is stripped down, heavy-beat, pop-set stuff: big on
hook, low on nuance, more Justin Bieber than Adele. It’s “The Princess Diaries” meets
“Twilight,” and Hocking hits all the commercial high notes, with a cheerful disregard for
description and character evolution. There is the misfit protagonist girl and the brooding, semi-
creepy boy with a penchant for showing up just in time to rescue her from trouble. There is
forbidden love, and multiple males vying for the attention of a seemingly unremarkable heroine,
who is, in fact, a princess.
[...].

a. Como, no primeiro parágrafo, o segundo texto apresenta a escritora e a obra?

b. No segundo parágrafo, como Lauren Oliver apresenta a obra?

c. O que diferencia a apresentação do livro Switched no primeiro e no segundo textos?

d. Qual estratégia, segundo o texto, a autora utilizou para despertar o interesse acerca sobre
uma obra cujas personagens principais são trolls?

e. Na sua opinião, existem livros escritos propositalmente com o intuito apenas de

conquistar uma comercializa~]ao elevada, ou seja, sem preocupação real com a
qualidade da obra?

f. Você prefere livros que possuem continuação ou gosta mais daqueles que encerram a
história em única obra?

g. Você se identifica mais com a literatura nacional ou com estrangeira/universal?

h. Você gosta de assistir a filmes baseados em livros?

 OBSERVAÇÃO GRAMATICAL:

Observe a oração “she doesn't quite fit in”, retirada do segundo texto. A estrutura da oração
indica a forma negativa do verbo. Em inglês, as formas negativa e interrogativa, muitas vezes,
ocorrem com a utilização dos verbos auxiliares do e does. Observe:

I I
You play sports at school. You don’t play sports at school.
We We
They They

Na tabela acima, você pode observar que a forma negativa utilizada, quando relacionada aos
pronomes I, You, We, They, é don’t.
A forma interrogativa acontece colocando o verbo auxiliar (do) no início da pergunta (quando
os pronomes são I, You, We, They):

Do you play sports at school?

Do they play sports at school?

Agora, quando o pronome é He, She ou It, utilizamos a forma verbal auxiliar does. Observe:

He He
She plays sports on Sundays. She doesn’t play sports on Sundays.
It It

A diferença é que a alteração verbal de terceira pessoas desaparece na forma negativa. Preste
atenção:

Afirmativa (he, she, it) Negativa (he, she, it)

He likes sports. He doesn’t like sports.
She cries a lot. She doesn’t cry a lot.
It barks at strangers. It doesn’t bark at strangers.
A forma interrogativa acontece colocando o verbo auxiliar (does) no início da pergunta (quando
os pronomes são He, She ou It):

Does she like sports?

Does it bark at strangers?

Os exercícios abaixo são “mecânicos”, ou seja, para te ajudar a consolidar o ponto gramatical.
O mais importante, porém, é nos concentrarmos na habilidade de leitura.

Compl e te c om a f or ma ne gati va, i nse r i ndo D on’t ou D oe s n’t.

(Di s poní ve l e m: < htt ps:/ / age n da w e b.or g/ e xe r c i se s/ ve r bs/ do - doe s -
e xe r c i se s/ ne gati ve - 1.ht m>. Ac e s so e m: 10 fe v. 2021).

I ______________ play the guitar.

You ______________ tidy your room.

She ______________ buy meat.

He ______________ sing rock.

A snail ______________ fly.

We ______________ live in Egypt.

You ______________ have a boat.

They ______________ clean the bathroom.

This girl ______________ go to the disco.

Bats ______________ lay eggs.

Compl e te c om a f or ma i nte r r oga ti va, i nse r i ndo D o/ D oe s :
(Di s poní ve l e m: <htt ps:/ / age n da w e b.or g/ e xe r c i se s/ ve r bs/ do - doe s -
e xe r c i se s/ do- doe s- 1.ht m>. Ac e ss o e m: 10 fe v. 2021).

____________ I sing well?

__________ you play football?

____________ he read books?

____________ she speak English?

____________ it eat bananas?

____________ we play video games?

____________ you travel by bus?

____________ they go to school?

____________ your teacher live in London?

____________ dogs like cats?