Last Monday was a really awful day. I got to school late because I had missed the bus. Then I had a Math test and did badly because I hadn't studied for it. Things went from bad to worse: while I was waiting for the bus home I realised I had lost my money so I had to walk home. I really wanted to go to the cinema with my parents that evening but by the time I got home they had already gone out. I put my dinner in the oven, went to watch TV and fell asleep. When I woke up an hour later, there was a terrible smell and smoke coming up the stairs: I had forgotten to take my dinner out of the oven.
ACEVEDO, A.; GOWER, M. High Flyer. Longman, 1996.
A intenção do narrador, nesse texto, é
Going to university seems to reduce the risk of dying from coronary heart disease. An American study that involved 10 000 patients from around the world has found that people who leave school before the age of 16 are five times more likely to suffer a heart attack and die than university graduates.
World Report News.Magazine SpeakUp. Ano XIV, nº 170. Editora Camelot, 2001.
Em relação às pesquisas, a utilização da expressão university graduates evidencia a intenção de informar que
A tirinha é um gênero textual que, além de entreter, trata de diferentes temas sociais. No caso dessa tirinha, as falas no 3º quadrinho revelam o foco do tema, que é
Ao estabelecer uma relação entre a Matemática e o blues a partir da opinião pessoal de um dos rapazes, a charge sugere que
Na fase escolar, é prática comum que os professores passem atividades extraclasse e marquem uma data para que as mesmas sejam entregues para correção. No caso da cena da charge, a professora ouve uma estudante apresentando argumentos para
Crystal Ball
Come see your life in my crystal glass –
Twenty–five cents is all you pay.
Let me look into your past –
Here's what you had for lunch today:
Tuna salad and mashed potatoes,
Collard greens pea soup and apple juice,
Chocolate milk and lemon mousse.
You admit I've got told it all?
Well, I know it, I confess,
Not by looking, in my ball,
But just by looking at your dress.
SILVERSTEIN, S. Falling up. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996.
A curiosidade a respeito do futuro pode exercer um
fascínio peculiar sobre algumas pessoas, a ponto de
colocá–las em situações inusitadas. Na letra da música
Crystal Ball, essa situação fica evidente quando é
revelado à pessoa que ela
The record industry The record industry is undoubtedly in crisis, with labels laying off employees in continuation. This is because CD safes are plummeting as youngsters prefer to download their music from the Internet, usually free of charge.
And yet its not all gloom and doom. Some labels are in fact thriving. Putumayo World Music, for example, is growing, thanks to its catalogue of ethnic compilation albums, featuring work by largely unknown artists from around the planet.
Putumayo, which takes its name from a valley in Colombia, was founded in New York in 1993 . It began life as an alternative clothing company, but soon decided to concentrate on music. Indeed its growth appears to have coincided with that of world music as a genre.
Speak Up. Ano XXIII, n° 275 (fragmento). A indústria fonográfica passou por várias mudanças no século XX e, como consequência, as empresas enfrentaram crises. Entre as causas, o texto da revista Speak Up aponta
Hip hop music
Hip hop music is a musical genre which developed as
part of hip hop culture, and is defined by key stylistic
elements such as rapping, DJing, sampling (or synthesis),
scratching and beatboxing. Hip hop began in the South
Bronx of New York City in the 1970s. The term rap is often
used synonymously with hip hop, but hip hop denotes the
practices of an entire subculture.
Disponível em: http://en.wikipedia.org. Acesso em: 8 jul. 2010.
Brazilian hip hop is one of the world's major hip hop
scenes, with active rap, break dance, and grafitti scenes,
especially in São Paulo, where groups tend to have a
more internacional style, influenced by old school hip hop
and gangsta rap.
Brazilian rap has served as a reflection of political,
social, and racial issues plaguing the disenfranchised
youth in the suburbs of São Paulo and Rio. The lyrical
content, band names, and song names used by Brazilian
hip hop artists often connote the socio–political issues
surrounding their communities.
Disponível em: http://en.wikipedia.org. Acesso em: 8 jul. 2010 (fragmento).
Sendo a música uma das formas de manifestação cultural
de um país, o rap brasileiro, a partir das informações do
texto, tem sido caracterizado
Os cartões-postais costumam ser utilizados por viajantes que desejam enviar notícias dos lugares que visitam a parentes e amigos. Publicado no site do projeto ANDRILL, o texto em formato de cartão-postal tem o propósito de
The six–year molars
The six–year molars are the permanent teeth. They
are the “keystone" of the dental arch. They are also
extremely susceptible to decay.
Parents have to understand that these teeth are very
important. Over 25% of 6 to 7 year old children have
beginning cavities in one of the molars.
The early loss of one of these molars causes serious
problems in childhood and adult life. It is never easy for
parents to make kids take care of their teeth. Even so,
parents have to insist and never give up.
O texto aborda uma temática inerente ao processo
de desenvolvimento do ser humano, a dentição.
Há informação quantificada na mensagem quando
se diz que as cáries dos dentes mencionados
THE WEATHER MAN
They say that the British love talking about the weather. For other nationalities this can be a banal and boring subject of conversation, something that people talk about when they have nothing else to say to each other. And yet the weather is a very important part of our lives. That at least is the opinion of Barry Gromett, press officer for The Met Office. This is located in Exeter, a pretty cathedral city in the southwest of England. Here employees and computers supply weather forecasts for much of the world.
Speak Up. Ano XXIII, nº 275.
Ao conversar sobre a previsão do tempo, o texto mostra
