COLÉGIO IMACULADO CORAÇÃO DE MARIA 3ª. ETAPA - Trabalho de recupeção Nome: Turma: 2ºAD/FG Nº Educador(a): Christiane Ghelli Disciplina: Inglês Data / / THE GIANT AWAKENS Brazilians like to tell a joke on themselves. Brazil, they say, is the country of the future and it will always be. In fact, there have always been two Brazils. There is the Brazil of the imagination, a glittering vision of wealth and progress, and there is the Brazil of reality, where despair and inequality are the lot of all except a privileged minority. Indeed, the country is stretched between the developed and underdeveloped worlds. It is the eighth largest economy on the globe, boasting high-tech industry and renowned universities. At the same time, it suffers all the ills of Biafra starvation, poor health, massive illiteracy and tragically high infant mortality. Some Brazilian economists call their country Belindia, a modern, industrialized Belgium of prosperity, encircled by a vast India of underdevelopment. The contradictory worlds of Belindia persist in Brazil to this day. The question is how to bring them closer together without political conflict. Estudo do vocabulário: (Adapted from The giant awakens, an article in Newsweek) A- ENCONTRE no texto, palavras ou frases que correspondam aos significados abaixo: (0.2 cada) 1. Wakes up; stops sleeping ------------------- 2. Brilliant; splendid ---------------------- 3. Riches; great deal of money ----------------------- 4. The opposite of hope ------------------------------ 5. The opposite of equality -------------------------- 6. The way of live; the fortune; the fate ---------------- 7. Really; in fact ---------------------- 8. Is extended ----------------------- 9. Proudly owning; possessing with pride ----------------- 10. Famous ------------------- 11. Bad things; misfortunes; troubles --------------------- 12. Death caused y lack of food ----------------------- 13. Illness; disease ------------------------ 14. Incapacity to read and write ----------------- 15. Surrounded; around a circle ----------------- 16. Nearer ------------------------
B- RESPONDA às questões abaixo, de acordo com o texto: (0.15 cada) 1. Brazilians like to tell a joke. What is it on? ---------------------------------------- 2. What do they say about Brazil? ---------------------------------------------- 3. Are there any social differences in Brazil? ----------------------------------- 4. What is the Brazil of imagination like? ------------------------------------- 5. What about the real Brazil? --------------------------------------- 6. How does the economy of Brazil stand among the world s countries? ------------------------------ 7. Are there any good universities in Brazil? ------------------------------- 8. What kind of ills does Brazil suffer? ----------------------------------- 9. What are some of the ills of Biafra? -------------------------------- 10. What do economists mean by Belindia? ------------------------------------------------- 11. Does the name Belindia still apply to Brazil today? -------------------------------- 12. What is the important question about Brazil today? ---------------------------------------- C- ESCOLHA a opção correta, de acordo com o texto acima: (0.5 cada) 1. The joke Brazilians like to tell on themselves suggests their... about their country. a) Faith b) Hope c) Optimism d) Pessimism 2. Marked social differences... a) Have always existed in Brazil. b) Have just appeared in Brazil. c) Are a thing of the past in Brazil. d) Have become a problem in recent times. 3. Only a few Brazilians. a) Live in poverty now. b) Escape from despair and inequality now. c) Have a glittering vision of wealth and progress. d) Lin in the Brazil of reality. 4. The living conditions of the developed and underdeveloped worlds. a) Can equally be found in Brazil. b) Help in stretching the country. c) Can be found only in the Brazil of imagination. d) No longer exist in Brazil. 5. The Brazilian economy. a) Is among the ten largest economies of the world. b) Shows how underdeveloped the country is. c) Is the eighth largest of the developed world. d) Proves that pessimists are right about Brazil. 6. Brazilians can be justifiably proud of their. a) Reality. b) Industry and universities c) Privileged minority. d) Despair.
7. The same problem found in African underdeveloped country. a) Can no longer be found in Brazil. b) Afflict Brazilian too. c) Are now found in Brazil only. d) Cannot be found anywhere else. 8. Of the following troubles, only one is not common in underdeveloped countries. Which is it? a) Death caused by lack of food. b) General inability to read and write. c) High death rate among children. d) The poor health of people of wealth. 9. Belindia is a name. a) Given to Brazil by foreign economists. b) Given to Belgium and India by economists. c) Given to their country by Brazilian experts in economics. d) Given to Brazil by Belgium economist. 10. The developed and underdeveloped worlds that continue to exist in modern Brazil. a) Must be brought closer together, and in peace. b) Are not contradictory. c) Will disappear without any political conflict. d) Suffer all the ills of Biafra.