ESCOLA SECUNDÁRIA DR.

GINESTAL MACHADO
ENGLISH TEST

11º Ano – Março/2021

Nome: Nº: Turma:

Ponderação
Resultados Parciais 
ACPA  (De acordo com os critérios de avaliação da disciplina)

Percentagem  Valores  Valores 

A  35%  7
B  25%  5
I  6%  1,2
Total   66%  13,2

A - LISTENING COMPREHENSION

ACTIVITY A
You will hear the first and second parts of a podcast about a survey on teens’ shopping habits.

1. Listen to the first part of the podcast on teens’ shopping habits and choose the correct
option (underline the correct word) according to what you hear.

Piper Sandler 1conducted / concluded its biannual “Taking Stock with Teens” 2service / survey
between February 17 and March 27, polling 3 2,500 / 5,200 teens in 41 states. The last three weeks of
the survey 4 covered / coveted an unprecedented time for America, with schools shut down to help
5
prevail / prevent the spread of COVID-19, and teens figuring out how to 6earn / learn from home.
When teens were asked for their top social or political concern, coronavirus was named as the
number two 7worry / hurry. The environment remained in the top spot, so the sustainability-minded
8
generator / generation still puts the environment first among their top concerns.
Gen Z has grown more concerned about the U.S. economy as the virus outbreak has spread,
according to the survey, and it is likely that this concern is weighing on 9sending / spending. Teens
reported their annual spending was down 13% this spring, to $2,300, compared with the same period
last year. That 10amount / discount is the lowest spending level reported by teens since fall 2011.

2. Listen to the second part of the podcast on teens’ shopping habits and complete the text
with the missing words.

Overall spending may be down for 1)____________________, but food accounts for the largest
share of males’ 2)___________________ and is in a very close second place for females. Teens report
a quarter of their 3)__________________ goes to food. Chik-fil-A holds onto the top spot for teens’
favourite 4)__________________ brand, followed by Starbucks. Chipotle Mexican Grill takes number
three for the higher-income teens, McDonald’s is third for the average 5)__________________
teens.
While Gen Z’s total spending is down sharply, when they do go 6)___________________,
7)__________________ like Nike, Lulumelon and Amazon are top on the list. While the guys are
spending a lot on 8)__________________, teen girls are spending less on 9)__________________,
10)__________________ and apparel. Ralph Lauren and Victoria’s Secret are among the brands
falling out of favor.
 B - READING COMPREHENSION

- Read the following text.

Thrifty shoppers rediscover secondhand fashion

Karen Charles remembers how embarrassed she was the first time she set foot in a thrift store more
than 20 years ago to buy black pants for her first job.
“I didn’t want anyone to see me,” said Charles, a 37-year old administrative assistant from Atlanta. “In
high school, there was really a stigma attached to it. People thought you were either poor or
homeless.”
Now, the fashion enthusiast says about 97% of her closet consists of secondhand clothes, vintage
dresses and all kinds of sequined accessories. Her favorite find is a navy blue Bill Blass chiffon evening
gown potentially worth hundreds of dollars that she scored for $5 at Goodwill. Her last visit to a mall –
a rare occurrence – was months ago, to use a gift card.
She proudly flaunts her thrift store finds on her blog, and social media. When strangers started asking
her for fashion advice, she decided to market her love of “thrifting” by becoming a part-time personal
shopper. She helps clients maintain their wardrobes and advises them on new trends. She even
organized Atlanta’s first Thrift Fashion Week in the spring.
“I want to encourage people to try it,” she said. “When you see other people doing things and you see
all the great pieces they find, it kind of motivates you to at least try it.”
In fact, more people have been sharing Charles’s enthusiasm for secondhand clothing in recent years.
Goodwill Industries, one of the most recognizable names in secondhand shopping, says it has
experienced an 84% increase in revenue from the sale of donated goods from 2007 to 2012, from $1.9
billion to $3.5 billion.
Secondhand clothing and vintage items are showing up in couture, street wear, even everyday office
wear. Besides the incentive of saving money, thrifting has also become trendy. Hip-hop duo
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis won a 2013 Billboard Music Award for their hit song “Thrift Shop,” which
brags about “looking for a come up” in a thrift shop.
More people are discovering thrift store shopping because of the recession, said Maureen McGill, co-
founder of Manhattan Vintage, New York’s biggest vintage fashion market for more than 30 years. But
she believes that the love of vintage style and the thrill of the hunt will keep people coming even during
good economic times.

1. Find words/expressions in the text that mean the same as:

a. careful, prudent c. connected to something e. depression, decline

b. enter, go into d. exhibits

2. Explain the following expressions/ sentences using your own words.

a. “She proudly flaunts her thrift store finds on her blog, and social media.” (l. 10)
b. “Secondhand clothing and vintage items are showing up in couture, (…).” (l. 20)
c. “(…) the thrill of the hunt (…).” (l. 26)
3. Answer the following questions using your own words as far as possible.

a. When Karen was young she didn’t feel comfortable buying clothes in a thrift shop. Why?
b. How much money did she save in her navy blue Bill Blass chiffon evening gown?
c. What exactly does a part-time personal shopper do?
d. According to Maureen, people tend to buy more vintage items during economic depression times.
Give a reason for such a phenomenon.
e. What about you? Do you think that buying in secondhand shops is a good option? Why/ Why not?

C - VOCABULARY

1. Complete the paragraph using the words from the box.

manufacture clothing consumer cosmetic campaigns values

environmental ethical goods purchase consumerism consumption

Ethical 1)__________ is a form of political activism based on the premise that purchasers in

markets consume not only 2)__________ but also, implicitly, the process used to produce
them. From the point of view of ethical consumerism, 3)__________ is a political act that
sanctions the values embodied in a product’s 4)__________. By choosing certain products
over others, or even whether to 5) __________ at all, consumers can embrace or reject
particular 6)__________ and labour practices and make other value claims based on the
7)__________ values they hold. Exercising choice in this way creates incentives for
producers to make production practices conform to consumer 8)__________. Successful
9)__________ waged by ethical 10) _________ movements have popularized foods that are
free of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), sweatshop-free 11)__________, fair-trade
coffee, 12)__________ products free from animal testing, and conflict-free

Cotações
A B C
1 2 1 2 3 1
ACPA – A (70 pontos) 10 pontos 18 pontos 30 pontos 12 pontos
ACPA – B (50 pontos) 10 pontos 10 pontos 5 pontos 10 pontos 15 pontos

ACPA – I (12 pontos) 12 pontos