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SECRETARIA DE ESTADO DA EDUCAÇÃO – SEED
SUPERINTENDÊNCIA DA EDUCAÇÃO – SUED
PROGRAMA DE DESENVOLVIMENTO EDUCACIONAL – PDE
LEITURA: ENRIQUECIMENTO DO VOCABULÁRIO
PDE – 2008
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SECRETARIA DE ESTADO DA EDUCAÇÃO – SEED
SUPERINTENDÊNCIA DA EDUCAÇÃO – SUED
PROGRAMA DE DESENVOLVIMENTO EDUCACIONAL – PDE
LEITURA: ENRIQUECIMENTO DO VOCABULÁRIO
Trabalho apresentado como pré –
requisito parcial para o PDE, a ser
desenvolvido
no
plano
de
intervenção pedagógica no Colégio
Estadual D. Pedro I – EFMPN, sob
a orientação da Profª. Ms. Caroline
Pupo Hagemeyer.
PDE – 2008
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UNIDADE DIDÁTICA
LEITURA: ENRIQUECIMENTO DO VOCABULÁRIO
PROFESSORA PDE-2008: LUCI NOELI SCHROEDER
PROFESSORA ORIENTADORA: CAROLINE PUPO HAGEMEYER
NRE: NÚCLEO REGIONAL DE PITANGA
MUNICÍPIO: PITANGA
ESCOLA: COLÉGIO ESTADUAL D. PEDRO I –EFMPN
DISCIPLINA: LÍNGUA INGLESA
INSTITUIÇÃO DE ENSINO SUPERIOR: UNICENTRO
LIGHTBOWN, P.M. & SPADA, N. How languages are learned. Oxford University Press, 2006.
Dear Teacher:
To define the subject of study as lexical acquisition as a support to build the discourse
in the English language teaching, we searched teorical knowledge that can arouse the student’s
interest to read in English and take him/her to acquire new vocabulary through letters, colors,
sounds, images. Through this, helping him to understand the text and, consequently, to build
his/her vocabulary.
The Diretrizes Curriculares da Rede Pública do Estado do Paraná (2006), say:
“o texto como unidade de linguagem em uso, ou seja, de comunicação
verbal-
escrita, oral ou visual – será o ponto de partida da aula de Língua Estrangeira.
Acredita-se que o texto despertará o interesse dos alunos para que possam
desenvolver uma prática analítica e crítica, ampliando seus conhecimentos
lingüísticos e, também, percebendo as implicações sociais, históricas e ideológicas
presentes num discurso.” ( p. 44-45)
Like this, the project will be developed at high school. This pedagogical notebook is
divided in 5 units, prioritizing the vocabulary and text’s study, when presuppose that the
meaning of the text isn’t ready when we read it, and the student will build it through his/her
previous knowledge.
In this way, it will be shown texts from different genres and several subjects using
pictures, cartoons, letters, etc, highlighting the importance of visual literacy as a skill more and
more present in the modern society.
Therefore, according to Buratini (2004), the visual reading can help to fill possible
gaps of understanding from linguistic unfamiliarity. So we observed in the classroom the
trouble to practice the English language reading and, consequently, to understand and build the
sense of the text, because the reader faces the barrier of unknown word.
Due to this,it appeared the student’s necessity to study vocabulary in the teaching of
reading, because it is part of his/her process of intellectual growth and his familiarity with the
language.
In this way, through reading and vocabulary activities, we intend to give students
support to the reading and interpretation of non-verbal texts. So, the visual attracts attention,
but it is still necessary to emphasize the importance of visual to the understanding of reading in
a foreign language.
Thus, the student needs captivating subjects and stimulating texts like tasks that help
him/her to read and to build vocabulary.
Therefore the key to encourage the student to read is motivating him/her with
accessible material and tasks he/she can carry out.
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Caro aluno:
Você sabe que a linguagem é muito importante, pois é por meio dela que
interagimos com outras pessoas, demonstrando toda forma de sentimento, de opinião,
informação e de ideologia.
Como também, a língua inglesa é muito importante, porque através dela temos
oportunidades de conhecer outras culturas e ideologias.
Desse modo, este caderno pedagógico será constituído de várias unidades, elaboradas
por diversos professores.
Esta unidade especificamente será composta por 5 atividades de leitura e aquisição de
vocabulário. O papel do vocabulário no ensino da leitura é fundamental, porque o leitor em
língua estrangeira enfrenta a barreira da palavra desconhecida.
Assim apresentar-se-á textos de diferentes gêneros e assuntos diversos, levando-o a
criar o seu próprio discurso.
Os textos desta unidade são todos muito interessantes e se apresentam de várias
formas, visando despertar o seu interesse tanto pelo vocabulário básico quanto pelo
vocabulário novo.
Destaca-se também a leitura, na qual você poderá grifar as idéias principais, facilitando
a compreensão para as tarefas propostas.
Em vista disso, enfatizamos a importância do conhecimento da língua inglesa no
mundo globalizado, demonstrando que a cada aula, aprendem-se novos vocábulos e expressões
inseridas nos diferentes textos que lhe são apresentados.
Assim, você passará boa parte do seu tempo utilizando este material. Tomara que você
realmente aproveite todas as informações, explicações e atividades preparadas.
BOM TRABALHO!
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TEXT: TO COMMUTE OR NOT TO COMMUTE, THAT IS THE QUESTION?
TASK 1: What kind of text is this?
( ) a poem
( ) a cartoon
( ) an advertisement
( ) an interview
2- Why did you choose this answer?
( ) É uma obra em verso com características poéticas.
(
) Sua estrutura é caracterizada por perguntas e respostas, envolvendo pelo menos dois
indivíduos.
(
) É um gênero textual constituído de linguagem não verbal, podendo ou não trazer
linguagem verbal.
(
) Rico em elementos de linguagem não verbal, com efeitos de sentido que podem ser
alcançados por meio de planejamento gráfico, que inclui: cores, tipo de letra, imagem, etc.
TASK 2: Match the columns.
a) still
( ) limpo
b) thought
( ) viajar uma distância considerável diariamente
c) surrounded
para ir trabalhar
d) move back
( ) ainda
e) be able
( ) do lado de fora
f) worse
( ) mais barato
g) clean
( ) pensava
h) cheaper
( ) pior
i) outside
( ) cercado, rodeado
j) commute
( ) à venda
k) for sale
( ) conseguir fazer algo
( ) mudar de casa, lugar
TASK 3: Read the text and find words which mean:
____________________________ sobretudo, principalmente;
____________________________ razoavelmente, bastante;
____________________________ suficientemente, o suficiente;
____________________________ troca;
____________________________ próximo;
____________________________ na hora;
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____________________________ engarrafamento;
____________________________ lotado;
____________________________ auto-estrada;
____________________________ logo.
TASK 4: Match the questions with the paragraph.
To commute or not to commute, that is the question
a) Have you ever tried going by car?
b) How long have you lived there?
c) Why did you choose this village?
d) Why did you decide to live in the country?
e) Why have you decided to move back to the city?
(
) Well, partly because houses are so much cheaper outside London, but mainly because I
thought I could have the best of both worlds – live surrounded by trees and traffic-free streets
but still be able to work in London.
(
) Because it’s still very rural, and is an hour from London by train. The cost of traveling
seemed a fair exchange for a cheaper house, each access to good schools for my children, and
clean air.
(
) For ten years. But I’ve had enough. My house is up for sale. I’m going to move back to
London, to as close to my office door as I can reasonably manage.
( ) Well, the real problem with living outside London and having to commute there every day,
as I discovered too late, is the daily journey to London. The trains are always crowded, they’re
never on time, the journey is boring, and occasionally I’ve gone to sleep and missed my stop.
(
) Yes, but it’s even worse. What you get is miles of traffic jams on the motorway. Still, I
hope that soon it won’t be my problem any longer. My one dream now is to be able to walk to
work.
OXENDEN,Clive & LATHAM-KOENIG, Christina with Gill Hamilton.English File Intermediate Workbook. Oxford
University Press, 1999.
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TEXT: COMMUTER
Pre-Reading
TASK 1: What are the good and bad things about traveling to work?
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TASK 2: Do you think it is important to arrive on time at work? Why?
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TASK 3: Are you concerned about time? Why?
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TASK 4: Look at this text but don’t read it yet. What do the illustration suggest to you?
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Poema de Alan Maley publicado em Maley e Duff, The Inward Ear, Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Commuter
He lives in a house in the suburbs
He rises each morning at six.
He runs for the bus to the station,
Buys his paper and looks at the pics.
He always gets in the same carriage,
Puts his briefcase up on the rack.
Thinks miserably of his office,
And knows he can never turn back.
He gets to his by nine thirty,
Wondering what he should do.
When the coffee break comes at eleven,
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He knows he still hasn’t a clue.
His lunch break is quite uninspiring,
He sits it out in the canteen.
It’s fish and chips, mince and potatoes,
A choice that’s quite literally obscene.
At five he runs back to the station,
Gets in the same carriage again,
Unfolds his evening paper,
Pulls a veil down over his brain.
Poema de Alan Maley publicado em Maley e Duff, The Inward Ear, Cambridge University
Press,1989.
TASK 5: How can you tell that a text is a poem?
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TASK 6: How is it different from other texts?
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TASK 7: What do people write about in poems?
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TASK 8: Look at the words below and underline only the words you know and look the
unknown words up in a dictionary.
carriage – uninspiring – unfolds – house – paper – turn back – potatoes – morning – when –
brain – station – pulls – lunch break – still – choice – gets – clue – veil – runs – rises – canteen
– wondering – mince – miserably – buys – knows –– back – briefcase – rack – down – sits –
desk – comes – looks
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TASK 9: Give the meaning of the words below.
choice –
paper-
briefcase-
carriage-
brain-
clue-
wondering-
sits-
runs-
pulls-
TASK 10: Write a sentence with these words.
choice- ________________________________________________________________
carriage- ______________________________________________________________
wondering- ____________________________________________________________
clue- _________________________________________________________________
briefcase- ______________________________________________________________
TASK 11: Match the words with the meaning.
a) turn back
( ) to have information about something.
b) rack
( ) towards the ground or a lower point or in a
c) down
lower position.
d) still
( ) to go in the opposite direction.
e) buy
( ) not at all interesting or exciting.
f) rise
( ) to cut food, especially meat, into very small
g) brain
pieces, usually in a machine.
h) uninspiring
( ) to get something by paying money for it.
i) know
( ) the organ inside your head that controls how
j) mince
you think, feel and move.
( ) a frame or shelf, usually with bars or hooks,
for holding things on.
( ) up to a particular point in time and continuing
at that moment.
( ) stand, to go upwards.
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TASK 12: Give all the words in English that you can imagine are associated with the words
below.
E.g. lives: house, city, place, time,etc
lunch- _________________________________________________________________
briefcase- ______________________________________________________________
back- _________________________________________________________________
pull- __________________________________________________________________
bus- __________________________________________________________________
TASK 13: Qual é o sentido da palavra suburbs na língua inglesa?
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TASK 14: Which is the meaning of the adverb miserably in the text?
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TASK 15: Obscene in the text means:
( ) dealing with sex in a socially unacceptable and offensive way, indecent.
( ) extremely immoral and unfair in a way that makes you angry.
TASK 16: Read the text again and answer the questions below.
The poem below express some negative feelings. Justify your answer with at least three
sentences from the text.
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TASK 17: What is the text about?
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TASK 18: Where does the man live?
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TASK 19: What does he do in the evening at home?
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TASK 20: Look at the illustration and answer which negative feeling is associated the
picture.
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Vocabulary Tip
How can I remember new words?
The way you record and learn a word helps you remember it. For example you can:
- imagine the word.
- write a personal example.
- make a word map.
- associate the word with a similar word in your language.
But you can’t learn new words just by writing them down once. You have to revise
them regularly.
Word groups
a) Imagine the words. Order them from large (1) to small (3).
1- elephant ( )
dog ( )
( ) horse
2- van
car ( )
( ) lorry
3- motorway ( )
path ( )
( ) road
4- village
( )
town ( )
( ) city
5- tree
( )
forest ( )
( ) flower
( )
OXENDEN, Clive & SELIGSON, Paul & LATHAM_KOENIG, Christina. English File Student’s Book 2. Oxford
University Press, 1997.
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TEXT: ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL
TASK 1 : MUSIC – Another brick in the wall.
- Watch the video clip and answer the questions below.
- Por que as crianças estão em fila marchando? Você sabe alguma coisa sobre esta música?
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- Você concorda com a frase “We don’t need no education”. Why?
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TASK 2: Look at the text and write these words in English.
educação: __________________________
pensamento: ____________________
sala de aula: ________________________
tijolo: _________________________
professor: __________________________
outro: _________________________
deixar: ____________________________
parede: ________________________
garotos: ___________________________
sozinho: _______________________
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TASK 3: Listen to the music and think about the lyrics.
Another brick in the wall
We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave the kids alone
Hey teacher leave us kids alone
All in all it’s just, another brick in the wall
All in all you’re just, another brick in the wall
We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave the kids alone
Hey teacher leave us kids alone
All in all it’s just, another brick in the wall
All in all you’re just, another brick in the wall
Trecho da música Another Brick in the wall. From: http://letras.terra.com.br/pink floyd
PRE READING
TEXT : “WHEN A MAN DIES, IT’S AS IF A WHOLE LIBRARY BURNS DOWN”.
TASK 1: What kind of school would you like? Check the alternatives below.
My ideal school would
( ) be in a city
( ) be in the country
( ) have large classes
( ) have 1 or 2 teachers
( ) have a lot of teachers
( ) be small
( ) be near home
( ) have small classes
( ) be large
( ) be far from home
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“WHEN A MAN DIES, IT’S AS IF A WHOLE LIBRARY BURNS DOWN’
(old African proverb)
If you read so far, keep reading. For education. Because education is the only road we
can all take to get ahead. Education is everything in life. When you say “good morning”, it’s
education. When you learn to read or to fly, it’s education. When you plant a tree or stop
polluting rivers and seas, it’s education. When you pass by a museum, a theater, a church or a
historic place and realize what they mean, it’s education. Education is the most important
heritage you can have. For education is not just learn how to read and write. It is when you
learn about your own country and about the world. And as you do, you also learn about
yourself. It’s much more than that: education is when everybody learns about everybody.
Education is when 165 million people ask who we are and where we are going. And we
discover the magic and power of the answers. With education we have much more than a
country. We have a nation. And when a human being is born, it’s as if a whole library began to
be built. It’s a never ending process. A process called future.
Education is everything. Fundação Roberto Marinho ( original text
published in O Globo, April,2. 2000. English version by Amadeu Marques).
TASK 2: What type of text is this? How do you know?
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TASK 3- Combine the following words with the explanation and translate them.
a) realize: ___________________________ d) heritage: ________________________
b) get ahead: _________________________ e) pass by: ________________________
c) burn down: ________________________ f) so far: _________________________
( ) up to a particular point, degree, distance etc; until now
( ) important qualities, customs, and traditions that have been in a society for a long time
( ) to know and understand the importance of something
( ) to move past or go past a person, place, vehicle etc.
( ) if a building burns down or is burned down, it is destroyed by fire.
( ) to make progress, to be successful
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TASK 4: Look at the headline of this text. Do you agree with the writer? Justify your
answer.
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TASK 5: What did the author compare the man’s death with?
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TASK 6: What’s the meaning of this comparison? Do you agree with it?
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TASK 7: Write another title to the text.
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TASK 8: Rewrite the passages of the text changing the word in bold for a synonym.
a) Education is everything in life.
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b) And we discover the magic and power of the answers.
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c) When you pass by a museum, a theater, a church or a historic place and realize what they
mean, it’s education.
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d) Because education is the only road we can all take to get ahead.
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TASK 9: Did you find some of the ideas presented in the text difficult? If you don’t know a
word in you own language, it is difficult to understand a text? Did you find the vocabulary
difficult?
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TASK 11: Which proverb is related to education?
( ) The grass is always greener on the side of the fence.
( ) You can’t judge a book by its cover.
( ) Do not judge by appearances.
( ) Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
TASK 12: Why did you choose this proverb?
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TEXT: PROVERBS
TASK 1: Marque com um X a alternativa correta sobre as características dos provérbios.
(
) Frase curta, de origem popular que sintetiza um conceito a respeito da realidade ou uma
regra social ou moral, ditado popular , máxima expressa em poucas palavras.
( ) Ritmo, divisão em estrofes, rima.
( ) Texto criativo especialmente no campo lexical muitas vezes não constituídos por frases
ou períodos completos.
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TASK 2: Match the columns.
1- business
( ) morrer
2- hope
( ) ladrão
3- mouth
( ) esperança
4- stronger
( ) boca
5- straight
( ) negócios
6- die
( ) moscas
7- mills
( ) mais forte
8- judgement
( ) galho
9- branch
( ) moinhos
10- thief
( ) direito
11- flies
( ) julgamento
12- broken
( ) irregular, quebrado
TASK 3: Connect the proverbs.
a) A close mouth…
( ) the best seasoning
b) Still waters…
( ) straight by broken lines
c) Mind your ….
( ) catches no flies
d) The last will…
( ) on its own branch
e) The opportunity…
( ) makes us stronger
f) Hunger is…
( ) run deep
g) Our union…
( ) makes the thief
h) Hope is …
( ) will be the first
i) Each monkey…
( ) own business
j) God writes…
( ) is the last one to die
TASK 4: Match the proverbs with the correct translation.
1) Passed waters can’t move the mills
2) At night all cats are brown
3) Each head, a different judgement
4) Children raised, doubled work
5) Walls have ears
( ) As paredes têm ouvidos
( ) À noite todos os gatos são pardos
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( ) Àguas passadas não movem moinhos
( ) Cada cabeça, uma sentença
( ) Filho criado, trabalho dobrado
TASK 5: Choose a proverb and illustrate it.
Vocabulary Tip
Organize your vocabulary learning!
To remember words or phrases follow this routine:
a- Record the new word with the correct stress.
b- Try to remember it after a minute.
c- Test your memory again after an hour.
d- Remember it again the next day.
e- Test yourself after a week, then after a month.
OXENDEN, Clive & SELIGSON, Paul & LATHAM_KOENIG, Christina. English File Student’s Book 2. Oxford
University Press, 1997.
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TEXT: HOUSE RULES
TASK 1: Leia o texto e responda as questões abaixo.
HOUSE RULES
If you drink out of it, WASH IT!
If you sleep on it, MAKE IT UP!
If you wear it, HANG IT UP!
If it rings, ANSWER IT!
If it barks, FEED IT!
HOUSE RULES. From: http://www.comvest.unicamp/br/vest_anteriores/2007.
TASK 2: Look at the highlighted words. What do they represent?
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TASK 3: Look up the meaning of these words in the dictionary.
WASH IT! _________________________________________________________________
MAKE IT UP! ______________________________________________________________
HANG IT UP! ______________________________________________________________
ANSWER IT! ______________________________________________________________
FEED IT! __________________________________________________________________
TASK 4: Find out the strange word from each group.
drink
- soft drink
- water
- study
barks
- dog
- feed
- wear
sleep
- bed
- sun
- night
wear
- clothes
- fashion
- barks
house
- hang
- flat
- room
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TASK 5: What does the mother hope her adolescent (son/daughter) do?
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TASK 6: Did you understand the text? What is it about? Do you agree with house rules? Why?
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TEXT : THE GASMEN AND THE CANARY
PHRASAL VERBS
Os PHRASAL VERBS (verbos frasais) são verbos que se combinam com in/out/up/down,etc.
Geralmente um PHRASAL VERB corresponde a uma única palavra em português:
go in/ walk in = entrar
go out = sair
go/come back= voltar
Às vezes corresponde a um verbo reflexivo ou pronominal:
get up = levantar
stand up = colocar-se em pé/ levantar-se
sit down = sentar-se
TASK 1: Look at the verbs in bold in the story.
turn off = stop
turn on = start
pick up = lift into the air
Sometimes a verb + particle (= preposition or adverb) has a new meaning. These are phrasal
verbs.
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TASK 2: Look at the story below . Describe pictures A to D.
OXENDEN Clive & SELIGSON, Paul & LATHAM_KOENIG, CHRISTINA. English File Student’s book 2.
Oxford University Press, 1997.
This is a story about an old lady and her canary. Her gas fire didn’t work so she called the Gas
Company.
TASK 3: Number the paragraphs 1 to 6. Use the pictures to help you.
( ) They repaired the fire and turned on the gas.
( ) The old lady saw the canary and screamed.
( ) They picked up the dead canary and put it on its perch.
( ) The gasmen came back. They turned off the gas.
( ) Two gasmen arrived at her house. The old lady went upstairs.
( ) They forgot to turn off the gas, and they went into the garden.
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TASK 4: Underline the words you don’t know in the story and look them up in a
dictionary.
TASK 5: Complete with the phrasal verbs below
write down
–
takes care – turned down – looking for
–
fill out.
1- The music is too loud so she ______________ ________________ the volume.
2- A babysitter is a person who _________________ ___________________ children when
their parents go out.
3- I’m _________________ _________ my glasses. I can’t find them anywhere.
4- Can you ___________________ _____________________ the number of the bus station
in the phone book?
5- Could you ______________________ ___________________ this form?
Word order of phrasal verbs
verb _______________take out _______________ particle
If the object is a pronoun , put it between the verb and the particle.
With most phrasal verbs, if the object is a noun you can put it between or after the verb and
particle.
He took it out . Or He took his wallet out.
Remember
With some verbs, the object always goes after the particle, e.g. look after, look for, get
on with. A nurse looks after people./ She looks after them.
He took out his wallet.
He took it out.
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TEXT: DO IT NOW!
TASK 1: Look at the picture and answer the question.
- Are you an organized person? Why?
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TASK 2: Describe the picture. What kind of person is this?
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REVISTA SUPERINTERESSANTE. Ed. 257 – out/2008, p.87.
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TASK 3: Read and answer the questionnaire.
DO IT NOW!
“Always put off until tomorrow what can do today.”
Do you get on with things you have to do, or are you like most people – always finding
excuses and reasons to put things off? Look at the lists below and check the things which you
think you should do.
At home
( ) Make your bed every day
( ) open your mail as soon as it arrives
( ) pay any bills as soon as you get them
( ) write back to friends who have written you
Learning English
( ) look at your vocabulary notes every day
( ) review your grammar every day
( ) do your homework
( ) speak some English every day
Self-improvement
( ) eat a balanced meal once a day
( ) read the newspaper every day
( ) get some exercise every day
( ) go to the movies once a week
GREENALL. Simon. Move Up Intermediate Student’s Book. Macmillan Heinemann English Language Teachinmg, 1995.
TEXT: CAN YOU SAY NO
TASK 1: What genre fits better in the text below? Why?
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TASK 2: Do the questionnaire to find out how much willpower you have. Read each
situation and choose a, b, or c.
CAN YOU SAY NO?
Can you do things you want to do even if they’re difficult? Can you finish what you start?
1- You have stopped eating sweets but you want something to eat. There’s a box of chocolates
in the cupboard. Do you decide to:
a) eat all the chocolates but not buy any more?
b) throw away the whole box?
c) eat one or two and then throw away the rest?
2- You realize you always contact a particular friend before he/she contacts you. Do you decide
to:
a) phone anyway and say nothing about it?
b) wait for your friend to phone you?
c) phone and say what you think?
3- You realize drinking is ruining your healthy. Do you decide to:
a) give up drinking next week and open a new bottle?
b) give up drinking completely and buy some fruits?
c) cut down and only drink a beer this evening?
4- You don’t enjoy doing exercise but you are getting fat. You take up jogging. As soon as you
start, you meet a good friend who invites you for coffee. Do you decide to:
a) stop and have a cup of coffee with your friend?
b) say you don’t need to have a cup of coffee and carry on jogging?
c) say you’ll meet him/her in five minutes and only jog round the park once?
Cunningham, Gillie & Mohamed, Sue. Language to go Pre-Intermediate. Longman, 2002.
TASK 3: Find the phrasal verbs underlined in the questionnaire that mean the following.
a) begin: _______________________________________________
b) continue: _____________________________________________
c) stop: _________________________________________________
d) do less: _______________________________________________
e) put in the rubbish bin: ___________________________________
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TASK 4: Complete each thing on the list with the verb from the box.
carry
give
cut
take
throw
CUNNINGHAM,Gillie & MOHAMED, Sue. Language to go. Pre-Intermediate. Longman, 2002.
TASK 5: Com base no estudo do texto, elabore regras na escola, amizade e família.
SCHOOL RULES
FRIENDSHIP RULES
FAMILY RULES
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Vocabulary Tip
Why do I remember some words and forget others?
Some words are easy to remember, because, for example, the word is similar to a
word in your language, or it’s a word that you often use. Other words are more
difficult to remember, because the spelling or pronunciation is unusual, or because
you don’t often see or hear the word.
Odd one out
Circle the different word. Why is it different?
1- potatoes
spinach
rice
meat
2- karate
exercise
cycling
3- love
hate
mind
want
4- dark
slim
good-looking
quiet
5- box
kilo
can
packet
6- generous
selfish
friendly
extrovert
gymnastics
OXENDEN, Clive & SELIGSON, Paul & LATHAM_KOENIG, Christina. English File Student’s Book 2. Oxford
University Press, 1997.
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TEXT: HUNTING FOR A JOB
TASK 1: Read the text below and answer the questions.
- Qual é o assunto do texto?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
- Para quem é destinado esse texto?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
- Qual é o objetivo do autor ao fazer tantas perguntas?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
Hunting for a job
CLACHAN HIGH SCHOOL
Your last year at school? What are you going to do next year?
Do you work in your spare time now? What job would you like
in the future? There is a wide range of jobs to choose but how
can you get one? Find out how to make your choice by coming
to the presentation by Nan Elliot, author of “Finding Your First Job”
In the school hall on Friday evening at 7.30.
Parents welcome.
Admission free.
MURPHY, Dermot & COOPER, Janelle. Getting the message A reading course for schools – student’s book three.
Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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TASK 2: Which of the genre fits better to the text above? Why?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________
TASK 3: Choose the correct alternative. Which characteristics you find in the text above?
( ) Conhecer ou transmitir explicações e informações de caráter geral.
( ) Apresenta ritmo, divisão em estrofes e rima.
( ) Pouca densidade verbal, expressão de idéia, de um saber, conselho.
TEXT: IN YOUR JOB OR IDEAL JOB
PRE READING
TASK 1: What kind of job would you like? Why?
___________________________________________________________________________
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___________________________________________________________________________
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TASK 2: What is most important to you about the job? Why?
___________________________________________________________________________
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TASK 3: What do people want from a job?
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TASK 4: What is the ideal age start working ? Why?
___________________________________________________________________________
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___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________
TASK 5: Read the text and underline the words you don’t know and look them up in a
dictionary.
TASK 6: Word-building. Job words often end in –or, -er, and –ist. How do these jobs end?
1- conduct_________
6- lawy ________
2- psycholog_______
7- bus driv _____
3- chem.__________
8- sail _________
4- interpret________
9- journal ______
5- hairdress________
10- scient _______
TASK 7: What do you need to be to do the jobs? Match the columns.
1- teacher
( ) imaginative
2- nurse
( ) sociable
3- painter
( ) hard-working
4- journalist
( ) intelligent
5- designer
( ) reliable
6- hairdresser
( ) funny
7- secretary
( ) lively
8- bank clerk
( ) kind
9- receptionist
( ) fun
10- police officer
( ) fashionable
11- soldier
( ) flamboyant
12- sailor
( ) sensible
13- farmer
( ) sensitive
14- gardener
( ) smart
15- park keeper
( ) practical
16- waitress
( ) young
17- photographer
( ) organized
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TASK 8: Read and answer the questionnaire.
In your job or ideal job…
Do you work…? Why?
( ) inside
( ) outside
( ) in an office
( ) at home
( ) on your own
( ) on weekends
( ) in the evenings
( ) at night
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
Do you need to be….? Why?
( ) ambitious
( ) young
( ) attractive
( ) physically fit
( ) imaginative
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
Do you…?
( ) travel
( ) need to drive
( ) wear a uniform
( ) work with your hands
( ) use a tool
( ) use a machine
( ) make or build anything
( ) need to type
Do you have to…? Why?
( ) talk a lot
( ) meet a lot of people
( ) have special qualifications
( ) speak a foreign language
( ) give orders or instructions to others
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
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TEXT: CARTOON CALVIN & HOBBES
Task 1: What are the opposite of these words?
a) yesterday: ________________________________
b) come back: _______________________________
c) first: _____________________________________
d) begin: ____________________________________
e) arrive: ____________________________________
Calvin & Hobbes. From:http://www.doobybrain.com/ 2007 /03 /06 /calvin-and-hobbes-searchable database>
apud http:// www.unicentro.br. Access: November.2008.
TASK 2: Read the text and find out what Calvin would like to be. Why?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
TASK 3: The expression “dumb assignment” means:
( ) a great task
( ) a written stupid task
( ) a boring task
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TEXT: CARTOON CALVIN & HOBBES
TASK 1: Marque com um X as características do gênero tirinhas.
( ) História curta, uma mensagem descrita em 3 ou 4 quadrinhos diferentes.
( ) Temáticas banais tanto com questões sociais, políticas e filosóficas as mais sérias, mesmo
que para fazer rir.
( ) Transmitir informações.
( ) Humor, linguagem informal, sem título.
TASK 2: Onde podemos encontrar as tirinhas?
___________________________________________________________________________
Calvin & Hobbes. From: <http:// drawn.ca/wordpress/wp- content/images/wattersonrare.jpg>.
apud http://www.unicentro.br. Acess: Nov. 2008.
TASK 3: What does “deadline” mean?
( ) prazo final
( ) muito tempo
( )expirar, vencer
TASK 4: What do you think is the job of Calvin’s father? Why?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
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TEXT: CARTOON
FINDING THE IDEAL JOB
Fonte: HAUGHNES, Natasha & MAHER, Beth. Northstar: Focus on Reading and Writing basic. Longman, 1998.
TASK 1: Look at the cartoon, read the information and consider the message of the text below.
In the United States today, many people make midlife career changes. After many years at one
kind of work, they change to a different kind of work.
TASK 2: What does the illustration represent in the cartoon?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
TASK 3: Do you think it is easy to change careers when you have forty years old? Why?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
TASK 4: Why do some people change careers?
___________________________________________________________________________
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________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
TASK 5: Write the words and phrases with their correct definitions.
advice – career – expert – hire – interview – manager – out of work – résumé – rewards
skill – update – want ads
______________________________: something that you can well; ability.
______________________________: the kind of work a person does, usually after learning
how and usually for a long time.
______________________________: a conversation where a person looking for a job is asked
a lot of questions by a person looking for a new worker.
______________________________: having no job.
______________________________: advertisements, usually in a newspaper, for jobs that are
available.
______________________________: suggestions about what to do.
______________________________: the person in charge of a group of workers.
______________________________: a person who knows a lot about something.
______________________________: to change by putting in new information.
______________________________: good things you get in return for work ( such as money
on healthy insurance).
______________________________: to give someone a job.
______________________________: a piece of paper with your work and education history.
TASK 6: Crie uma tira utilizando as palavras que você aprendeu.
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Vocabulary Tip
How can a good dictionary help me?
A good bi-lingual dictionary id very important for efficient language learning. A
dictionary doesn’t only tell you the meaning of a word. It also tells you the grammar,
pronunciation, and stress. It sometimes gives you an example sentence too.
Dictionary abbreviations. What do they mean?
1- sth. _____________________________
2- sb. _____________________________
3- n.
_____________________________ (e.g. house)
4- adj. _____________________________ (e.g. fat)
5- v.
_____________________________ (e.g. go)
6- prep. _____________________________(e.g. in)
7- adv. _____________________________(e.g. slowly)
8- pron. _____________________________(e.g. we / us)
OXENDEN, Clive & SELIGSON, Paul & LATHAM_KOENIG, Christina. English File Student’s Book 2. Oxford
University Press, 1997.
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TEXT: CARTOON
PRE READING
TASK 1: What do you think about the English language? Do you think it is important to speak
English? Why?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
TASK 2: What is your opinion about immigration? Do you agree that we should stop receiving
immigrants in Brazil? Why?
__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
TASK 3: Leia o primeiro texto escrito por Don Wright e publicado em 04 de maio de 2006,
no jornal The Palm Beach Post e o segundo também publicado em um jornal norte americano
(Orlando Sentinel, 27/03/2007), de autoria de Dana Summers e responda as questões abaixo.
Constructor business
lawn care business
maid services
agricultural business
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TASK 4: Look at the picture and predict the topic of the article and tell what you know
about the topic.
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
TASK 5: Skim the text and mark T (true) or F (false)
( ) The text is a magazine article
( ) The text is a cartoon
( ) Immigration is legal and it’s acceptable in the other countries
TASK 6: Read the text and underline the unknown words and look them up in a dictionary.
TASK 7: Look at the picture and answer the question. Is the illustration according to the text?
Justify your answer.
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
TASK 8: Read the text again and find out the best translation to the underlined words type:
a) Agricultural business
( ) carteiro
( ) executivo
( ) serviços de agricultura
b) Lawn care business
( ) serviços de jardinagem ( ) serviços de advocacia
( ) serviços legais
c) Maid services
( ) modelo
( ) serviços domésticos
( ) babá
d) Constructor business
( ) engenheiro
(
) empregado doméstico
( ) serviço de construção civil
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TASK 9: Rewrites the text replacing the underlined words for a synonym.
a)...and if they can’t even understand English. (comprehend)
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
b) How do I tell immigrants to go back where they came from? (warn – return)
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
c) We need to build a fence to stop illegal immigration. (must – prevent)
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
TASK 10: What does the character want to do with the immigrants and why he thinks
impossible to do?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
TASK 11: In the second cartoon, the character is in favor or against illegal immigrants?
According to the author ,what is the consequence of this politics in the United States?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
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TEXT: GOING TO THE USA
TASK 1: Match the words with their opposite.
a) stop
( ) confused
b) build
( ) destroy
c) go back
( ) superflous
d) need
( ) come
e) understand
( ) go
TASK 2: Complete the text with the words from the box.
work permit green card tourist visa
ID (identification) card
driving license residence permit
immigration
Going to the USA
Before you visit the USA, check if you need a ________________________ in your passport.
Some nationalities need to have one, but others don’t. If you want to stay longer than 90 days,
you can apply to the ________________________ department.
It is also useful to carry an _______________________ or a _______________________
with you so you can prove who you are. If you want to work in the USA, you need a
_____________________________. You also need a _____________________________
so you can live there. When you have these permits, you get a ______________________
which proves that you have permission to live and work in the USA.
CUNNINGHAM, Gillie & MOHAMED, Sue. Language to go Pre-Intermediate Student’s Book. Longmann,
2002.
TASK 3: Rearrange the letters to make words.
1- oimaigtinrm: ______________________________
2- tmiepr: ___________________________________
3- svai: _____________________________________
4- drca: _____________________________________
5- ceclein: ___________________________________
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TASK 4: Choose the correct word.
1- I have to get a passport photo / picture for my new passport.
2- To get a job in America you need a green permit / card.
3- In some countries you must have an identification card / visa with you all the time.
4- When you enter another country you have to go through residence / immigration
where you show your passport.
5- When you work in another country you usually need a work permit / licence.
TASK 5: Elabore um minidicionário com as palavras que você pesquisou nos textos estudados
neste caderno.
Vocabulary Tip
How can I learn vocabulary?
People often say they have a “bad” memory, but in fact, everybody has a good
memory if they can learn how to use it. You can easily remember a large number
of words if you:
- organize your vocabulary learning.
- revise regularly.
Key words
Match the questions and answers. Translate them.
Like
1- What’s China like?
2- Is she a good tennis player?
3- What do you like doing?
4- I’d like a cup of coffee, please.
( ) Reading and swimming.
( ) It’s incredible.
( ) Milk and sugar?
( ) Yes, she plays like Monica Seles.
OXENDEN, Clive & SELIGSON, Paul & LATHAM_KOENIG, Christina. English File Student’s Book 2.
Oxford University Press, 1997.
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