Hi darlings... Iniciamos nesta aula o uso de nossas apostilas de língua inglesa. Nossa primeira situação de aprendizagem é entiludade de " Biographical Studies". Fácil saber qual o assunto não?
Após breve discussão sobre esportes nos quais as mulheres se destacam mais e outros nos quais o masculino é mais notável, chegamos ao esporte que, em nós brasileiros, desperta maior paixão: o futebol.
Encontramos na página 5 um quadro com a foto de uma famosa jogadora de futebol e o exercício 1 com o seguinte enunciad:
1. Work in groups and see how much you now about Marta Vieira da Silva, the Brazilian football player.
A partir deste comando e do quadro percebemos que deveríamos preencher o quadro com os dados da jogadora.
Full name:___________________________________________
Date or birth:_________________________________________
Place of birth:_________________________________________
Club:_______________________________________________
Awards and Medals:_____________________________________
Family______________________________________________
Logo abaixo temos o texto do qual podemos retirar as informações que não sabemos sobre a jogadora. Lembrem-se de observarem, além do vocabulário conhecido, os termos cognatos.
2. Now read the following text and see if you can add information to the card in Activity 1:
Path to perfection
James Crawford
Marta Vieira da Silva is the most successful female footballer in Brazil; the only female football player in Brazil to receive the award of Fifa’s Women’s Player of the year award, in 2006 and 2007 And she keeps reaffirming her position as the world's best female football player all the time: She recently played in the Uefa Cup final for the Swedish Umea IK, and in the match against the Arsenal Ladies, she was absolutely outstanding, although her team lost.In the World Cup, in 2007, it was a pity to see the Brazilians players lose the final. Marta position as the best in the world, however untouched.]
Marta was born on February 19th, 1986, in Dois Riachos, a small arid town of about 13,000 people, in a very dry region in northastern Brazil.
Marta’s father worked as a barber but marta did not qrow up with her father because he left her mother when the player was just a baby. She has two elder brother and a sister, and they all had a very hard childhood. At that time, Marta didn’t have money to buy a ball. So she improvised, by folding plastic bags or paper, for example.(…)
James Crawford is the author of a book about Brazilian Soccer
No exercício a seguir você deve retirar as respostas para as questões do texto.
Observem as palavras interrogativas das questões, elas são importantes para a compreensão do que se deve procurar no texto:
who: quem
where: onde
when: quando
3. Find the Answers for these questions:
a) Who is the author of the article? Where is that information?
b)Where was the article published?
c) When was the article published?
d) Check the correct option: the text about Marta is:
( ) an advertisement, because it sells idea or product.
( ) a news article, because it reports a recent event.
( ) a biographical article, because it tells someone's life story.
Um pouquinho de gramática
Observando o texto pode-se notar algumas palavras destacadas e na página 28 da apostila vocês podem observar um quadro com o Simple Past - regular verbs - e na página 29 uma lista com alguns verbos irregulares.
Os verbos regulares formam tempo passado com o acréscimo de -ED- ao final.
I love - eu amo
I loved - eu amei
He play - ele joga
He played - ele jogou
Já os verbos irregulares seguem a forma fixa da lista:
I send - eu envio
I sent - eu enviei
She see - Ela ve
She saw - ela viu
Agora o ex. 4 pede que voltem às palavras destacadas do texto e as marquem de acordo com o verbo- regulares, irregulares ou na forma negativa
4. Look at the underlined verbs in the text. They are all in the past tense. Use a red pen to circle the regular verbs, a blue pen to circle the irregular verbs and a pencil to circle the verbs in the negative form.
Enfim, o ex 5 é uma pesquisa que deve ser feita em casa. Escolha um jogador de futebol e complete o cartão de informações.
5. Preparation for the writting task - part I. Choose a soccer player that you like and complete the card with information about him/her. You may include other items too.
Full name:
Date of birth:
Place of birth:
Nationality:
Club:
Awards and medals:
Family:
Uff...E então, até a próxima.
Vocabulário da aula:
best female football player: malhor jogadora de futebol
played: jogou
award: prêmio
Cup: copa
birth: nascimento
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