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COMPREHENSION TEXTS

Read the passages and choose the correct options according to the readings. 

One of my favorite vacation places is Mexico. I really like the weather there because it never gets cold. The people are very nice too. They never laugh at my bad Spanish. The food is really good. Mexico City is a very interesting place to visit. It has some great museums and lots of fascinating old buildings. The hotels are too expensive to stay but there are more affordable options. For example, you can stay at one of the beach resorts like Acapulco. If you are planning to visit Mexico, you should definitely see the Mayan temples near Merida.

1. 
Sam likes warm weather
Sam doesn't like warm weather at all
Sam hates warm water
Sam likes cold weather

2.

His Spanish is very good
He speaks Spanish very well
He is Spanish
He doesn't speak Spanish very well

3.

There's a lot to see and do in Mexico
There aren't a lof of beautiful places in Mexico
Mexico is a dirty place
Tourists never come to Mexico

4.

Hotels are very cheap in Mexico
The hotels aren't comfortable there
Hotels are all poor in Mexico
The hotels in Mexico are pretty expensive

Last summer, we decided to spend our vacation at the beach because the weather was very hot in the mountains. The travel agent said that traveling by bus was the cheapest way, but we went by plane because it was faster. We wanted to have more time to spend at the beach. The weather was beautiful and we had a great time.

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5. We decided to go to the beach because ----.

it was cheaper than going to the mountains
the travel agent said that it was the cheapest
of the hot weather in the mountains
we wanted to spend time at the beach

6. The bus was the ---- way to travel.

best
easiest
cheapest
slowest

7. Traveling by plane was ---- than by bus.

more fun
cheaper
expensive
faster

8. We ---- our vacation.

hated
didn't like
enjoyed
regretted

9. We had very ---- weather during our vacation.

good
hot
warm
cold

SANTA CLAUS - COMPREHENSION TEXT

Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, or simply "Santa", is a figure which was derived from the Dutch figure of Sinterklaas, a historical, legendary and mythological figure who in many Western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24 or on his Feast Day, December 6 (Saint Nicholas Day).The legend is based on the tales concerning the historical figure of gift giver Saint Nicholas.

While Saint Nicholas was originally portrayed wearing bishop's robes, today Santa Claus is generally depicted as a plump, jolly, white-bearded man wearing a red coat with white collar and cuffs, white-cuffed red trousers, and black leather belt and boots (images of him rarely have a beard with no mustache). This image became popular in the United States and Canada in the 19th century due to the significant influence of caricaturist and political cartoonist Thomas Nast. This image has been maintained and reinforced through song, radio, television, and films. In the United Kingdom and Europe, he is often depicted in a manner identical to the American Santa Claus, but he is commonly called Father Christmas.

Source: wikipedia/myenlgishpages

Comprehension:

1. Santa Claus is Saint Nicolas
   a.  True
   b.  False 
2. Nowadays Santa Claus is depicted wearing bishop's robes
   a.  True.
   b.  False.
3. Today's image of Santa Claus was conceived in the United States and Canada.
   a.  True
   b.  False 

INTERPRETAÇÃO DE TEXTOS (TEXTS COMPREHENSION) - INGLÊS

UNUSUAL PEOPLE UNUSUAL JOBS

Steve and Stella Baker live in California. They’ve got two small children, and they are an average American family, except for one thing: she goes to work, he stays at home and looks after the children. Our reporter spoke to Steve and Stella at their home in San Diego:

“My wife has a very good job. She’s an electronics engineer, and she works for the US Navy here. So she works, and I stay at home and look after the children.”

Jim Macartney is a helicopter pilot. He’s British, but he lives and works in Africa.

“I work for the hospital here. I take a doctor and two nurses in my helicopter to the jungle. There are no roads in the jungle . only rivers. People go by helicopter or by boat, or they walk.”

Mrs. Betty Brown is sixty-two. She’s a housewife, and a grandmother and a student! Mrs. Brown lives in Oxford, England, and goes to the University there. She studies Japanese, and she is the first in her class. We asked Mrs. Brown how she learns Japanese.

“My son lives in Japan, he teaches English in Tokyo and sends me Japanese magazines and newspapers, videos of Japanese TV programmes and cassettes of Japanese radio programmes.” (by Raquel C.Diem)

 1 - According to the text, chose the correct alternative:

a) Stella and Steve have two big children.

b) Stella Baker is sixty-two.

c) Steve looks after his wife.

d) Mrs. Brown’s son teaches English.

e) Steve works in an office.

2 - According to the text, choose the alternative that correctly describes the people’s occupations:

a) Mrs. Brown is a nurse.

b) Stella is an electronic engineer.

c) Jim is a teacher.

d) Steve is a doctor.

e) Steve is a pilot.

3 - According to the text, choose the alternatives which contain a correct answer for the question:

Where do they live?

a) Mrs. Brown lives in Japan.

b) Jim lives in England.

c) Steve lives in Oxford.

d) Mrs. Brown’s son lives in Japan.

e) Stella lives in Africa.

4 - Escolha a alternativa que melhor completa a questão:

Listen, Julia! The telephone is ringing. Go __________it.

Please, write your name under the topic for the lecture you want to ___________ .

a. attend / attend

b. answer / hear

c. answer / attend

d. attend / see

e. pick / participate

September 11, 2001 -  The worst terrorist attack in history

On September 11, 2001, the world witnessed the most terrifying yet the best planned terrorist action of all times (or one can see in a lifetime). 

The twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, the highest building in the USA and one of the highest of the world, were destroyed by two airplanes - the biggest ones used for domestic flights - which crashed into the towers.

At 8:45 a.m., American Airlines Flight II Boeing 767, going from Boston to Los Angeles, with 92 people on board, slammed into the north tower. Everybody thought it was an accident.

About 18 minutes later, however, the same kind of plane, also en route from Boston to LA, with 65 people on board, hit the south tower. Now everybody was sure it was a terrorist attack.

At 10:05 a.m. the south tower collapsed and 20 minutes later, the north tower came down too.

New York city had the worst day of its history and the New Yorkers had the saddest and most painful sight in their lives - people crying for help, others yelling, others jumping out of the windows, many trying to get out, but most of them getting trapped by the fire and dying. 

In the meantime, not far from New York, another plane, this time a Boeing 707 with 64 passengers and crew members, crashed into the Pentagon, the most important center of the American military power. One of the building's  five sides came down. More than one thousand people later were found dead under the debris. 

Yet, another Boeing 757, with 38 passengers and seven crew members crashed near Pittsburgh, before it could its target - Camp David, where in September of 1978, Jimmy Carter, President  of the USA then, met Muhammad Anwar Al. Sadat, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, and Menachen Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, to sign a peace agreement for the Middle East.

The planes, hijacked by merciless terrorists, were used to kill thousands of innocent people and to try to destroy the most significant American symbols of financial, military and political power.

One of the richest and most feared terrorists in the world had declared 3 weeks before that he was preparing "the most daring" and  "most striking" attack  one has ever seen, to protest against the support given by the Americans to Israel.

Whoever did that will never have enough reasons to justify such hideous deed.

What else can we say! The pieces of dead bodies and their smell coming from under the debris lead us to conclude that pride, fanaticism of any kind, revenge, anger, thirst for power and hate, are the worst, most destructive, most harmful, most unfair and most cruel feelings which can inhabit the human heart.(font: newsweek- foto:jaihoon)

                
                                                                                              
Exercises: 

01. How does the text describe this terrorist attack? 

02. How many and what were the targets? 

03. Concerning the New Yorkers, How does the text describe this day?


04. Concerning the people that were inside the World Trade Center, How does the text describe what  happened to them? 


05. Concerning the text, What is the Pentagon?


06. Besides the WTC and the Pentagon  was there another target? Explain?


07. What was the purpose of this attack? 

08. Concerning the text, one of the richest and most feared terrorists in the world had declared 3 weeks before that he was preparing this attack. How did he define this attack?

DICTATORSHIP IN BRAZIL - A STUDY ABOUT IT TO HIGHSCHOOL GAMES

 Today Brazil protests against espionage work done by the Americans , but in the past , during the military dictatorship (1964-1985) , the country used the same expedient to know what the neighbors were doing. It indicates that the documents of the General Staff of the Armed Forces ( EMFA ) recently revealed by the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo .


The practice proves , therefore , that the military dictatorship not only monitored Brazilian citizens here and abroad , especially those who showed contrary to power , but also exerted spying on foreign governments .
With this measure , the Military Dictatorship believed would be better prepared for a possible conflict with neighboring countries . Also, could use something inside information from a Latin unstable in case of threat.

As in Brazil, these allies were infiltrating subversive environments out there to monitor threats to the country they frequently travel to Brazil to pass on information .
Also speaking on trips to Europe by CIEX spies , but unlike stocks in neighboring countries whose intelligence focused on data collection of large political contexts , the old continent Military Dictatorship merely follow in the footsteps of Brazilian exiles .

HEALTHY AND BLACK CULTURE

Na última semana finalizamos o projeto sobre saúde. Além de estudarem o uso do ANABOLIC STEROIDS, as turmas de 1o ano aprenderam um pouco mais sobre a ORGANS DONATION (doação de órgãos); colegas do 3o ano acerca da OBESITY AND OVERWEIGHT (obesidade e sobrepeso) e o alunado do 2o adentrou por fim no estudo da Consciência negra com a poesia NEGRO e o trabalho escravo durante desde o início da humanidade. Além disso foi dado ênfase também no papel das tribos indígenas no norte do país.

Por fim, diversificamos a aula com o uso de videoclips para absorção de novos vocábulos e o alunado dos 1os anos da manhã fizeram aula de Speaking com a peça "AT FAIR" onde eles aprenderam a comprar verduras e frutas na feira.

HOW LONG - HOW MUCH - HOW MANY - HOW OFTEN

Confira as expressões mais comuns quanto ao uso de pronomes interrrogativos:
1. HOW LONG - quanto tempo?

 a. How long are you going to stay in our town? 
 b. How long are you waiting for us?  
c. How long is "The Avengers"?


2. HOW OFTEN - com que frequência

a. How often does Meg do gym?
b. How often do you watch tv? 


3. HOW MUCH - quanto custa? quanto/a

a. How much chocolate do you eat every week? 
b. How much is it? 

4. HOW MANY - quantos? 

a. How many trees can you see here? 
b. How many brothers do you have?foto:inlux

SPEAKING CLASS - AULA DE CONVERSAÇÃO

Na última semana, as turmas do 2o e 3o anos participaram de peça teatral como ponto cumulativo  da avaliação - IV unidade. Além de estudar o conteúdo gramatical da unidade, foi sugerido para os alunos a representação das peças "ON A TRIP" - Um viajante num trem percebe que alguém está no seu lugar. O objetivo: aprender a contornar a situação e fazer amizade com a pessoa desconhecida (2o ano).

Já a peça "LOST FLIGHT" - alunos do 3o ano tiveram a oportunidade de aprender a maneira mais fácil de agir quando perde-se um voo no aeroporto. Além de ganhar nova passagem, ele interage com a recepcionista da companhia aérea.

APRENDA A CANTAR "IT WILL RAIN" by BRUNO MARS

If you ever leave me, baby,

Leave some morphine at my door

'Cause it would take a whole lot of medication

To realize what we used to have,

We don't have it anymore.

There's no religion that could save me

No matter how long my knees are on the floor

Oh so keep in mind all the sacrifices I'm makin'

To keep you by my side

And keep you from walkin' out the door.

'Cause there'll be no sunlight

If I lose you, baby

There'll be no clear skies

If I lose you, baby

Just like the clouds, my eyes will do the same

If you walk away

Everyday, it will rain, rain, rain

I'll never be your mother's favorite

Your daddy can't even look me in the eye

Oooh if I was in their shoes, I'd be doing the same thing

Sayin' there goes my little girl

Walkin' with that troublesome guy

But they're just afraid of something they can't understand

Oooh but little darlin' watch me change their minds

Yea for you I'll try I'll try I'll try I'll try

I'll pick up these broken pieces 'til I'm bleeding

If that'll make you mine

'Cause there'll be no sunlight

If I lose you, baby

There'll be no clear skies

If I lose you, baby

Just like the clouds, my eyes will do the same

If you walk away

Everyday it will rain, rain, rain

Oh don't just say goodbye

Don't just say goodbye

I'll pick up these broken pieces 'til I'm bleeding

If that'll make it right

'Cause there'll be no sunlight

If I lose you, baby

There'll be no clear skies

If I lose you, baby

And just like the clouds, my eyes will do the same

If you walk away

Everyday it will rain, rain, rain

Irá Chover

Se um dia você me deixar, amor

Deixe um pouco de morfina na minha porta

Porque eu precisaria de muitos medicamentos

Para perceber que não temos mais

O que tínhamos

Nenhuma religião poderia me salvar

Não importa quanto tempo eu passo ajoelhado

Então lembre-se dos sacrifícios que eu estou fazendo

Para te manter do meu lado

E evitar que você saia pela porta

Porque não haverá luz do sol

Se eu te perder, amor

Não haverá céu claro

Se eu te perder, amor

Assim como as nuvens, meus olhos farão o mesmo

Se você for embora

Todo dia, irá chover, chover, chover

Eu nunca serei o favorito da sua mãe

Seu pai nem consegue me olhar nos olhos

Se eu estivesse no lugar deles, faria a mesma coisa

E diria: "Lá vai a minha garotinha

Com aquele cara problemático"

Mas eles têm medo de algo que não conseguem entender

Mas minha querida, vou fazê-los mudar de ideia

Sim, por você, eu vou tentar, eu vou tentar, eu vou tentar, eu vou tentar

E recolher esses cacos até eu sangrar

Se isso fizer você ser minha

Porque não haverá luz do sol

Se eu te perder, amor

Não haverá céu claro

Se eu te perder, amor

Assim como as nuvens, meus olhos farão o mesmo

Se você for embora

Todo dia, irá chover, chover, chover

Oh, não diga simplesmente adeus

Não diga simplesmente adeus

Recolho esses cacos até eu sangrar

Se isso fizer tudo ficar bem

Porque não haverá luz do sol

Se eu te perder, amor

Não haverá céu claro

Se eu te perder, amor

E assim como as nuvens, meus olhos farão o mesmo

Se você for embora

Todo dia, irá chover, chover, chover

COMPARATIVE DEGREE EXERCISES - 2o ano

Write the appropriate form of the adjective in the brackets

 

 

1.     The town is just as  (large) as my native one.

2.    The road was  (long) than we had expected.

3.    The girl is very  (intelligent).

4.    As soon as they understood that the second book was  (boring) than the first one, they changed their mind.

5.    The shop is  (far) than the school.

6.    Ventspils is  (far) town in Latvia I have been to.

7.    Tim is  (intelligent) than Pat.

8.    The heat is less  (harmful) than the cold.

9.    This song is  (beautiful) one in the world!

10. They are as  (stubborn) as donkeys!

11.  The weather today is  (bad) than the weather yesterday but not as  (bad) as it was four days ago.

12. The story was  (exciting) one I have ever heard.

13. They were less  (tired) than we.

14. George bought a  (new) car than he could ever imagine.

15. The mark is a  (good) than I expected.fonte:englishexercises.org

Put in the adjective in bold from the first sentence into the second sentence in its correct form (comparative or superlative). Toggle example

1) This is a nice cat. It's much  than my friend's cat. 2) Here is Emily. She's six years old. Her brother is nine, so he is . 3) This is a difficult exercise. But the exercise with an asterisk (*) is the  exercise on the worksheet. 4) He has an interesting hobby, but my sister has the  hobby in the world. 5) In the last holidays I read a good book, but father gave me an even  one last weekend. 6) School is boring, but homework is  than school. 7) Skateboarding is a dangerous hobby. Bungee jumping is  than skateboarding. 8) This magazine is cheap, but that one is . 9) We live in a small house, but my grandparents' house is even  than ours. 10) Yesterday John told me a funny joke. This joke was the  joke I've ever heard.font:ENGLISH-HILFEN Complete the following sentences. 1. No other boy is as ……………………. as James. (tall / taller / tallest) 2. Milk is ………………….. than any other food. (nourishing / more nourishing / most nourishing) 3. Radium is one of the ……………………… metals. (valuable / more valuable / most valuable) 4. Few English poets were as ……………………. as Wordsworth. (great / greater / greatest) 5. Shimla is ………………….. than most other hill stations in India. (famous / more famous / most famous) 6. Gold is one of the ……………………. metals. (precious / more precious / most precious) 7. Solomon was …………………… than any other king. (wise / wiser / wisest) 8. Few historians write as ………………….. as Macaulay. (well / better /best) 9. Very few books are as ……………………. as David Copperfield. (popular / more popular / most popular) 10. A train is …………………. than a car. (fast / faster / fastest) Font:englishpractice

FUTURE WITH GOING TO EXERCISES

There are lots of dark clouds in the sky.  (it, rain).

- Do you all want to come to the beach with us?
- Thanks, but we can't.  (we, choose) our new house this weekend.

- So, what time  (we, meet) tomorrow?
- Sorry,  (we, not, go) to the theater after all. Our car isn't working very well.

 (Tyler, ask) Sonia out?

Our sales are going very well.  (we, make) big money this month.

 (I, not,shop) at Willow Mall anymore. I was there this morning and the prices were absurd!

Yesterday, Tammy decided to buy a new car.  (she, go) to a dealership tomorrow.

So, what did you decide?  (you, join) the club?

PAST PERFECT

O past perfect é usado para expressar uma ação que ocorreu no pass

ado antes de uma outra ação ter ocorrido. Esse tempo verbal é marcado pela forma:

Sujeito + had + verbo principal no particípio passado + complemento The movie had already started when I got home yesterday. (O filme já tinha começado quando eu cheguei em casa ontem).

Para a forma negativa basta acrescentar o “not” após o “had”; e para as frases interrogativas, inverter o “had”, colocando-o no início da frase, conforme a tabela abaixo:

Negativa	Interrogativa
I had not / I hadn’t	Had I…?
You had not / you hadn’t	Had you …?
He had not / he hadn’t	Had he…?
She had not / she hadn’t	Had she…?
It had not / it hadn’t	Had it…?
We had not / we hadn’t	Had we…?
You had not / you hadn’t	Had you…?
They had not / they hadn’t	Had they…?

Ex.:

I hadn’t cleaned my bedroom when my mother arrived home this weekend. (Eu não tinha limpado meu quarto quando minha mãe chegou em casa nesse final de semana).
The game hadn’t started when we got to the stadium. (O jogo não tinha começado quando nós chegamos ao estádio).

She hadn’t made the dinner when the guests arrived. (Ela não tinha feito o jantar quando os convidados chegaram).

Had you danced before the end of the party? (Você tinha dançado antes do fim da festa?).
Had they sent all the invitations before the wedding? (Eles tinham enviado todos os convites antes do casamento?).
Had the play already started when you got to the theater yesterday? (A peça já tinha começado quando vocês chegaram ao teatro ontem?).Font:Brasilescola fto;rasyaqabatrisia

Put the verbs in brackets into the gaps in the correct tense - Past Perfect or Simple Past. Toggle example

1) After Fred  (to spend) his holiday in Italy he  (to want) to learn Italian. 2) Jill  (to phone) Dad at work before she  (to leave) for her trip. 3) Susan  (to turn on) the radio after she  (to wash) the dishes. 4) When she  (to arrive) the match  already  (to start). 5) After the man  (to come) home he  (to feed) the cat. 6) Before he  (to sing) a song he  (to play) the guitar. 7) She  (to watch) a video after the children  (to go) to bed. 8) After Eric  (to make) breakfast he  (to phone) his friend. 9) I  (to be) very tired because I  (to study) too much. 10) They  (to ride) their bikes before they  (to meet) their friends.font:english-hilfen

1.	After she (finish)  breakfast she left the house.
2.	He told me he (never be)  to Australia before.
3.	I told him twice that I (not know)  him.
4.	When I looked at the lorry I could see that somebody (drive)  into the back of it.
5.	I was frightened because the police (come)  for my sister.
6.	I couldn't get in because I (lose)  my keys.
7.	The doctor examined her leg and (find)  that she had broken it.
8.	He started to read the newspaper he (buy)  an hour earlier.
9.	Before he came to Warsaw he (live)  in Prague.
10.	I was feeling very thirsty because I (drink)  too much alcohol the night before.
11.	He (spend)  three years in Tahiti when he was a child.
12.	The movie (start already)  when we arrived to the cinema.
13.	He told me he (never see)  anything like that.
14.	I felt really stupid because I (make)  a lot of mistakes.
15.	When she (hear)  the noise she turned to see what it was.
16.	I told him I didn't know who (steal)  his pen.
17.	When I saw her I knew we (never meet)  before.
18.	I was hungry because I (not eat)  since breakfast.
19.	I (write)  a long letter to my mother yesterday.
20.	I paid for the window because my son (break) .font:nonstopenglish