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Atividade de Língua Inglesa “false friends”!

(Complete o quadro abaixo, usando as


Técnicas de leitura palavras que você traduziu no Exercício #4. Preste
Teacher: Douglas atenção especial aos falsos cognatos).
exquisite
Read the text below, using the actually
skimming strategy. Check the title balcony
and the theme (Leia o texto abaixo, usando a estratégia fabric
de skimming. Cheque o título e o tema). legend

TEXT #1 TEXT #2
EDUCATION IN BRAZIL BRAZILIAN KIDS
Education Brazil is a very big country. Because of that, its
in Brazil is marked people has a huge variety of cultures, habits and ways of
by impressive living. It is not
figures. The different when
country has we are talking
199,800 public and about
private schools children.
offering preschool, Therefore, it
basic and secondary education. There are currently is not possible
52.6 million students in basic education, which to define only
additionally counts on 2 million teachers one specific
Brazil also runs the world’s largest public profile of Brazilian children.
school meal and free textbook distribution programs. In general, Brazilian kids are seen as happy and
Such impressive figures are the result of a historic effort playful. However, those characteristics may be dimmed
to achieve universal quality education, currently funded by the fact that many of them, especially in poorer
by 5% of Brazil’s Gross Domestic Product. The size of Brazilian states, still do not have access to proper
education in the country is as large as its challenges, sanitary conditions, potable water, healthy food or
which run from improving the quality of education to schools.
using new technologies like distance education. Fortunately, though, most Brazilian kids get
what they need to live at least minimally comfortably and
EXERCISE #1 happily – enough water, good food, proper housing and
Agora, responda: What is the text about? (Sobre o que é education. We hope that, in the near future, all kids can
o texto?) have all of those things.

EXERCISE #2 1- Sobre o que é o texto?


Liste 20 palavras cognatas presentes no texto 2- De acordo com o texto, qual é a visão geral que se
tem das crianças brasileiras?
EXERCISE #3 3- Quais são os problemas enfrentados pelas crianças
Mark True (T) or False (F) (Marque Verdadeiro (T) brasileiras, especialmente aquelas que vivem em
ou Falso (F)) estados mais pobres?
( ) O Brasil tem 199,800 escolas públicas.
( ) 52,6 milhões de estudantes estão na educação 4- Consider the text you read in Exercise #6. Read it
básica. again and decide whether the sentences below are true
( ) O Brasil gasta mais de 5% do PIB em Educação. (T) or false (F).
( ) O Brasil tem o maior programa de distribuição ( ) No texto, a palavra “huge” (linha 1) pode ser
gratuita de livros didáticos do mundo. substituída pelo termo “very big”, sem que haja uma
mudança significativa no sentido da oração.
( ) Educação a distância é, segundo o texto, uma forma ( ) De acordo com o texto, as crianças brasileiras podem
de nova tecnologia. ser definidas de acordo com um único perfil.
( ) A palavra “Fortunately” pode ser traduzida como
EXERCISE #4 “Felizmente”.
Complete the chart below, using the words that you (. ) O texto afirma que todas as crianças brasileiras
translated in Exercise #4. Pay especial attention to the sofrem por não ter acesso a condições sanitárias
adequadas.

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