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MODULE 2 OUR WORLD

Critérios Específicos de Classificação

LISTENING TEST 2

ACTIVITY A

SCRIPTS

The world has seen Greta Thunberg’s solo school strikes morph into a global movement of more than six
million demonstrators; Extinction Rebellion activists have seized bridges and blocked roads in capital cities; the world
has heard ever more alarming warnings from UN scientists; dozens of national parliaments and city councils have
declared climate emergencies.
The climate has become much more hostile – with increasingly ferocious storms (for the first time on record, there
have been category 5 hurricanes), intensifying forest fires (consider the devastating blazes in Siberia and the
Amazon this year, or California and Lapland in 2018), massive bleaching of coral reefs (which is happening with
growing frequency across most of the world), terrible floods in Bangladesh, desperate droughts in southern Africa,
food shortages in the Sahel and the opening up of the northwest passage due to shrinking sea ice.

Climate science is very precise today, which is good news in terms of anticipating the risks, but deeply alarming
when we consider just how nasty scientists expect the climate to become in our lifetime. Unless emissions are slashed
over the next decade, a swarm of wicked problems are heading our way. How wicked? Well, let us consider what the
world will look like in 2050 if humanity continues to burn oil, gas, coal and forests at the current rate.
The world in 2050 is more hostile and less fertile, more crowded and less diverse. Across the world, droughts
intensify and extreme heat becomes a fact of life for 1.6bn city dwellers, eight times more than in 2019. More heat
means more forest fires, which dries out more trees, which burn more easily, which releases more carbon, which
pushes global temperatures higher, which melts more ice, which exposes more of the Earth to sunlight, which warms
the poles, which lowers the temperature gradient with the equator, which slows ocean currents and weather systems,
which results in more extreme storms and longer droughts.

1. N Completa 9 ou 10 espaços corretamente. 45/50

5 Chave:
1. global; 2. activists; 3. alarming; 4. climate; 5. storms; 6. hurricanes; 7. forest; 8. floods; 9.
droughts; 10. food
N Completa 7 ou 8 espaços corretamente. 35/40
4
N Completa 5 ou 6 espaços corretamente. 25/30
3
N Completa 3 ou 4 espaços corretamente. 15/20
2
N Completa 1 ou 2 espaços corretamente. 5/10
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2. N Identifica e corrige os 5 erros. 50

5 Chave:
1. change – science; 2. editions – emissions; 3. troubled – crowded; 4. soils – poles; 5. water
- weather
N Identifica e corrige 4 erros. 40
4
N Identifica e corrige 3 erros. 30
3
N Identifica e corrige 2 erros. 20
2
N Identifica e corrige 1 erro. 10
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ACTIVITY B

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Hunger will rise, perhaps calamitously. The United Nations’ International Panel on Climate Change expects food
production to decline by 2% to 6% in each of the coming decades because of land-degradation, droughts, floods and
sea-level rise. The timing could not be worse. By 2050, the global population is projected to rise to 9.7 billion, which
is more than two billion more people to feed than today.
When crops fail and starvation threatens, people are forced to fight or flee. Between 50 and 700 million people will
be driven from their homes by midcentury as a result of soil degradation alone. Fires, floods and droughts will prompt
many others to migrate within and across borders. The poorest will be worst affected, though they have the least
responsibility for the climate crisis.
This is not an inevitable future. Many of the horrors above are already baked into the climate, but our response to
them is not predetermined. When it comes to the science, the dangers can be substantially reduced if humanity shifts
decisively away from business-as-usual behaviour over the next decade. When it comes to the psychology and politics,
we can make our situation better immediately if we focus on hope in shared solutions, rather than fears of what we
will lose as individuals. That means putting faith in institutions, warning one another about risks, and treasuring shared
traditions. A storm is certainly brewing. The science is clear on that. The question now is how we face it.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/30/environment-2050-flooded-cities-forced-migration-amazon-turning-savannah
(abridged and adapted)

1. N Identifica as 6 frases verdadeiras e falsas. 30

5 Chave:
1. T; 2. F; 3. T; 4. T; 5. F; 6. T
N Identifica 5 frases verdadeiras e falsas. 25
4
N Identifica 3 ou 4 frases verdadeiras e falsas. 15/20
3
N Identifica 2 frases verdadeiras e/ou falsas. 10
2
N Identifica 1 frase verdadeira ou falsa. 5
1

2. N Completa as 7 frases corretamente. Pode escrever com incorreções linguísticas não 70

5 impeditivas da compreensão.
Chave:
1. The United Nations’ International Panel on Climate Change expects food production to
decline by 2% to 6% in each of the coming decades.
2. Land-degradation, droughts, floods and sea-level rise will lead to this decline.
3. Between 50 and 700 million people will be driven from their homes by midcentury as a result
of soil degradation.
4. Fires, floods and droughts will lead people to migrate within and across borders.
5. Although the poorest have the least responsibility for the climate crisis, they will be worst
affected.
6. In order to improve our situation, we can’t focus on fears of what we will lose as
individuals.
7. People must focus on shared solutions and that means putting faith in institutions,
warning one another about risks, and treasuring shared traditions.
N Completa 5 ou 6 frases corretamente. Pode escrever com incorreções linguísticas não 50/60
4 impeditivas da compreensão.
N Completa 3 ou 4 frases corretamente. Pode escrever com incorreções linguísticas não 30/40
3 impeditivas da compreensão.
N Completa 2 frases corretamente. Pode escrever com incorreções linguísticas não impeditivas 20
2 da compreensão.
N Completa 1 frase corretamente. Pode escrever com incorreções linguísticas não impeditivas 10
1 da compreensão.