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4º Teste de Inglês – 10º ano Turma B

Ano Letivo 2020-2021

Aluno: _____ Má rio Lousada

_____________________________Nº : __16___ Turma:B___ Data: 09/ 03/2021

A Professora: Fátima Gonçalves _______________ Encº de Educação: _________________

Compreensão escrita 200/ ___

Encouraging teens to read

with teenage magazines
Adopting and supporting reading habits are duties teachers and parents
share. Magazines that appeal to teens are a great way for parents to improve
reading at home. Everyone knows that encouraging
children to read is as fundamental to parenting as
teaching children to brush their teeth; reading is
essential to navigate through the world of prescription
medicines, job applications, and contracts with fine
print.
Not everyone has mastered good reading
habits. USA Today reporter Greg Toppo writes,
in “One in Seven U.S. Adults Unable to Read this
Story”, that “An estimated 32 million adults in
the USA – about one in seven – have such low
literacy skills that it would be tough for them to
read anything more challenging than a children’s
picture book.”
Helping kids establish positive reading
behaviors does not end once a child is able to
manage a book alone. Parents need to continue
to support reading
for teenagers by helping teens schedule time to read,
creating a quiet, well-lit environment that makes reading enjoyable, providing
a library card and access
to a library, setting an example of a love of reading by letting teens “catch”
parents reading, and giving teenagers quality reading material. Not every
teen
can have a quiet bedroom with a bookshelf full of books, but every teen
should be able to have a comfortable spot to sit with a book and read without
interruption.
Parents might find that magazines are a great investment with huge
rewards.
Magazines are inexpensive, a nice predictable surprise in the mail, recyclable,
timely and in touch with current trends. In addition, they offer a variety of
reading, such as fiction, non-fiction, letters to the editor, and advice columns.
Subscriptions to magazines make them much less costly than buying
magazines at bookstores and grocery stores; ordering online is easy and
often less expensive than subscription cards but the most important thing is
that parents are willing and able to help teens keep reading, despite busy
schedules.

http://suite101.com/article/encourage-teens-to-read-with-teenage-magazines-a89291 (abridged and adapted,

accessed in December 2012))

A. Are the sentences True or False? Quote from the text (3x6pts= 18pts)
1. Six in seven Americans show literacy skills.T- “about one in seven – have
such low literacy skills that it would be tough for them to read anything
more challenging than a children’s picture book.”.
A comfortable spot to sit and a book is the key to help teens develop
reading habits.T- “but every teen
should be able to have a comfortable spot to sit with a book and read without
interruption.”.
2.
Teens prefer magazines to books.F-“ Parents might find that magazines
are a great investment with huge rewards.”.
3.

B. What do the words in bold refer to? (4 x7 pts= 28pts)

1. Their-Children’s teeth
2. Them- The estimated 32 million adults in the USA with low literacy skills
3. They-Magazines
4. Them-Magazines

C. Scan the last two paragraphs and find synonyms for these words.
(4x8 pts=32 pts)

1. Arranging-Ordering
2. Certain-Predictable
3. Up-to-date- Timely
4. Even with-Despite

D. Answer the questions with your own words and give complete
answers. (2x25pts=50pts)
1. Why is reading so important?
Reading is important in the present day because it is essential not only to
communicate but also to navigate in the world we live in, for example, people
usually have a hard time travelling to a different country if they can’t understand
the labels and directions given to them, besides, it’s a great exercise for our
brain.
2. How can parents help their children developing reading habits?
Parents can help their children develop good reading habits not only by setting
an example but also provide the right materials to do so, such as a large
collection of books to choose from, and well lit and quiet rooms.

E. Do you often read teenage magazines? Why?/Why not? Write about

50 words. (40 pts)

No. I usually don’t read teenage because I’m more interested in other forms of

media, I’m not saying that I don’t read at all, quite the contrary, it’s just that I

find other types of books more interesting and tend to read them online.

When it comes to genres I like a good fiction book or even books centered

around mysteries, I also love comedies, however, I prefer to watch those on the

television.

F. Fill the gaps with the words from the box. Three are not used!
(8x4pts=32pts)

weak however sense anxious sad likely

probably frustrates attached so pieces

It’s very _likely___ that teen-agers, __attached__ to screens of one sort or

another, read more words than they did in the past. __However__, they often
read excerpts, articles, parts of articles, messages, __pieces__ of information
from everywhere and from nowhere but not books.
Of course, these kids are very busy. School, homework, sports, jobs, clothes,
parents, brothers, sisters, half-brothers, half-sisters, friendships, love affairs,
hanging out, music, and, most of all, screens (TV, Internet, games, texting,
Instagramming)—compared with all of that, reading a book is a __weak__
claimant on their time. Reading __frustrates__ their smartphone __probably__
of being everywhere at once. Suddenly, they are stuck on that page and many
are glum about it. Being unconnected makes them __anxious__ and even
angry. “Books smell like old people,” I heard a student say in New Haven.