READING TECHNICS
Algumas técnicas de leitura facilitam a nossa compreensão do texto apresentado:
TRANSPARENT W0RDS são as palavras com similar form and significado nas two languages. Exemplo: technology (English) e tecnologia (Portuguesa)
Layout é a apresentação/exploração visual do que está sendo apresentado e depende da compreensão de cada um de nós.
Ex.: o formato, as ilustrações, as cores, os destaques (negrito, itálico, tamanho das letras), o “pano de fundo” dos textos, os gráficos, mapas, as pictures, ...
Cognates são as palavras iguais e com o mesmo significado nos dois idiomas. Às vezes elas são semelhantes ou parecidas – devido a diferença do tempo de entrada da palavra em uso – para os ingleses as palavras oriundas dos romanos (latim – nossa língua materna), estão estagnadas, ié, não sofrem alteração, mas no nosso idioma, elas estão em constante evolução.
Ex: os nomes próprios (pessoas, lugares, continentes);
Os números romanos, arábicos, ordinais e suas variações e os símbolos: 1; 1°; 1st; 100 X 5; 20ª; 5 2; #;
Os números romanos, arábicos, ordinais e suas variações e os símbolos: 1; 1°; 1st; 100 X 5; 20ª; 5 2; #;
As words terminadas em “AL”: animal, fatal, annual (na língua portuguesa sofreu evolução, ié, perdeu um "n"), natural, gradual, general, ...
Os suffixes: sempre tem a mesma tradução:
- tion à lemos /sham/ e traduzimos “ção”: nation = nação; introduction = introdução; evolution = evolução; translation,...
- “ty” = dade: city = cidade; quality = qualidade; antiquity = antiguidade; ...
“ly” = menteà gradually = gradualmente; generally = geralmente;
“ence" = ência à independence = independência; influence = influência; eloquence = eloqüência; ...
Key words: São as palavras chaves para a compreensão do que o autor quer transmitir.
Scanning: localização de dados específicos no texto;
Skimming: identificação de informações gerais como a ideia central do texto (ou parágrafo).
Após essas dicas, espero que a leitura e a compreensão sejam mais fáceis.
Não se esqueça de underline os COGNATES e as TRANSPARENT WORDS para facilitar a compreensão!!!
As respostas dadas são de responsabilidade dos autores do livro texto (fornecidos aos alunos e no MANUAL do professor/a)!!!
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VOCABULARY STUDY – Page
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1 – TRANSPARENT W0RDS are words
with very similar form and meaning in two languages.
For example, technology (English) and tecnologia (Portuguese).
There are more than 20 transparent words in the infographic. Can you
find them?
(appetite, barrier,
accessing, cost, unfamiliar, training,
web-based, commonly, used, online, images, activities, engage, students, use,
motivation, reinforce, expand, content, respond, variety, styles)
2 – Word groups
Word groups are groups of words related to a common topic.
Complete the word groups below with words from the text.
Other possible answers:
Education: learn, learning, classroom, students, and teachers;
Education: learn, learning, classroom, students, and teachers;
Technology: web-based, games, web-sites,
online,
3 – Add other words to the word groups from exercise 2
Suggested answer: (Education) books,
learners, and black/whiteboard;
(Technology): computers, tablets, internet;
LANGUAGE IN USE
SIMPLE PRESENT – AFFIRMATIVE AND NEGATIVE
FORMS
1. Read the sentences below:
I.
Teachers want to engage students.
II.
Teachers have an appetite for more technology.
III.
8% of teachers
don't know where to start.
Now mark the correct answers.
a. The Present Simple tense is used in all three sentences to talk about
( x ) facts and generalizations.
( ) habits and routines.
b. The subject teachers can be replaced by the pronoun
( ) it
(3rd person singular).
( x ) they (3rd person
plural).
c. To form the negative sentence III in the Present Simple, we use don’t
( x ) before the main verb.
( ) after the main verb.
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2. Read an infographic about Internet usage in the US.
Then, complete the text with spend
or don’t spend.
Nowadays internet users in the US ………don’t
spend...... only 46 minutes a day on the internet as in the past
They……spend….. long hours online
Available at Accessed in September, 2012.
3. Did you know that about 55% of all websites are
written in English? Read the infographic below about the English language and
mark the correct answers.
a. The main purpose of this infographic is to
( )
describe the routine of English speakers around the world.
( x ) present some interesting facts about
English as a world language.
b. The Present Simple tense is used in all sentences to talk about
(x ) facts and generalizations.
( ) habits and routines.
c. In "India has over 125,000,000 ESL speakers”' the subject is
(X)India.
( )speakers.
d. In "English belongs to everyone or to no one” the subject is
( ) everyone.
( x) English.
e. These two subjects (from items e
and f) can be replaced by the pronoun
(X ) it (3rd person singular).
( ) they (3rd person plural).
f. In "English belongs to everyone or to no one” we add s to the main verb because the subject
is equivalent to
( x ) it (3rd person
singular).
( ) they (3rd person plural).
Available at http://infographiclist.con/2012/03/26/english-the-worldlanguage-tnfographíc Accessed in August 201 2
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4. Are you a good language learner? Underline the verb forms in the 3rd
person singular to complete the sentences as in the example.
a. The good language learner have/has the courage to experiment
and take risks.
b. The good language learner tries /try
out different strategies to learn vocabulary.
c. The good language learner go/goes for communication
and accuracy.
d. The good language
learner looks/look for opportunities to learn inside and
outside the classroom.
5. Read the sentences from exercise 4 again to complete the box below.
I.
Most verbs: verb
+ “s” think ... thinks; look ... looks; discard ... discards; offer ..... offers; practice ...... practices; play ........ plays;
…
II.
Verbs ending
in o, s, z, x, sh, ch ........... verb + es:
GO .... goes; do ..... does; miss ..... misses; buzz ..... buzzes; mix ..... mixes; finish ...... finishes; watch ...... watches;
III.
Verbs ending
in consonant + y: verb -y +ies
…. try .... tries; study ..... studies
Exception: have / has
6. Use the Simple Present tense
to complete the sentences below.
1903: Edward Binney and Harold
Smith co-invent
(co-invent) crayons.
1921: Artificial life begins
(begin) - the first robot built.
1937: Chester F. Carlson invents
(invent) the photocopier.
1945: Vannevar Bush proposes
(propose) hypertext.
7. Go back to exercise 6 and, mark the correct answer.
(x ) The Present Simple tense is used
in the sentences to make past events more vivid.
( ) The Present Simple tense is
used in the sentences to talk about past events which are not important in the
present.
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Read the poem below and do exercises 8-14.
My Sister’s Always on the Phone
by Bruce Lansky
My sister’s always on the phone
I never see her today
She doesn’t do her homework
Which is why her grades are ruddy.
My sister’s always on the phone
But I don’t think that’s cool.
My sister is so popular
She’s flunking out of school.
LANSKY Bruce. My sister’s Always on the Phone
Available at www.poeilyteacherscotl/schaolpoenshysislethtnl
Accessed in August 20l2
8. Mark the correct answers.
a. In Bruce's opinion, to be always on the phone is something
( x )negative. ( ) positive
b. The Present Simple tense is used in "My sister's always on the
phone" to describe
( ) facts.
(x) habits.
Circle the verbs in the Simple Present tense. (is;
see; doesn’t do; are; don’t think)
Complete with don't or doesn't.
a. We use don’t +
verb (when the subject is I/you/we/they) to form negative sentences in the Simple
Present tense.
b. We use doesn’t +
verb (when the subject is he/she/it) to form negative sentences in the Present
Simple tense.
Turn the sentences into the negative form to make true statements about
the text.
a. The girl from the poem has good grades.
The girl from the poem doesn’t
have good grades.
b. The girl and her
brother have the same opinion about
school.
The girl and her brother don’t have the
same opinion about school.
Complete with before or after.
Frequency adverbs like always,
never are used after the verb be and
before the main verb.
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13. Use the frequency adverbs from the poem to complete the graph
bellow:
·
always 1,2.3.4,5X
·
sometimes 1,2,3 X
·
almost never 1,2X
·
never 1X
14. Rewrite each sentence. Use the words in CAPITAI LETTERS in the new sentence.
a. I never see her study. DOESN'T She doesn’t study.
b. My sister's always on the phone.TALKS My sister always talks on the phone.
c. She doesn’t do her homework NEVER She never does her homework.
SIMPLE PRESENT (INTERROGATIVE FORM)/ QUESTION WORDS
15.
Match the
questions and the answers about the text.
a.
Do teachers
have an appetite for more technology?
b.
Does technology
cost too little for most teachers?
c.
Why do
teachers use technology in the classroom?
d.
What do
teachers use as popular tech resources in the classroom?
e.
Who wants more
technology in the classroom?
RESPOSTAS
( d
) Websites, online images and online games or activities.
( e
) Teachers.
( c
) Because they want to increase students' motivation, reinforce and expand on content
and respond to a variety of learning styles.
( b
) No, it doesn’t.
(a) Yes, they do.
16. Now mark the correct answers about items a and b from exercise 15.
a. To form interrogative sentences in the Present Simple tense, we use
( x ) do + subject (I/you/we/they) + main
verb; does + subject (he/she/it) + main verb.
( ) does + subject (I/you/we/they) + main verb;
do + subject (he/she/it) + main verb.
b. In exercise 15, we used short answers in
(x)a and b ( ) c
and d
17. Complete the statements below.
Use the question words in bold from exercise 15.
a. We use ……………why……….. to ask for an explanation or a reason.
b. We use …………who………… to ask about a person/people.
c. We use ……….what……. to ask about things, facts or activities.
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