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• Respostas :
Exercício 3 :
a) Possibility ; b) weak possibility ; c) before the infinitive of other verbs.
Exercício 4 :
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is arguably the most famous portrait in the
world, but now some are speculating that the woman with the inscrutable
smile may not be a woman after all. They are suggesting that the Mona Lisa
may be a self-portrait, da Vinci in drag.
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• 1. Read the cartoon below and choose the correct answer. Write the answer
in your notebook.

Could you kindly

rephrase that in
equivocal, inaccurate,
vague, self-serving and
roundabout terms that
we can all understand ?

Você poderia gentilmente

reformular isso em termos
ambíguos, imprecisos, vagos,
egoístas e indiretos que todos nós
possamos entender?
 • The Present Continuous tense is used to
b) express a current tendency ( a change happening around now)

• 2. Replace the icons* with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses to
complete the following text about Brazil. Use the Present Continuous tense.
Write the answers in your notebook.
Brazil is safer than ever, and the big cities like Rio and Sao Paulo * ________ (enjoy )
a kind of renaissance. Graffiti *______________(disappear), new restaurants and cafes
*________________(dot) the streets. Even Brazil’s shanty towns, or favelas,
*___________(experience) a rebirth as residents take back their communities from the
drug lords.
Brazil is safer than ever, and the big cities like Rio and Sao Paulo are enjoying a kind of renaissance. Graffiti
is disappearing , new restaurants and cafes are dotting the streets. Even Brazil’s shanty towns, or favelas, are
experiencing a rebirth as residents take back their communities from the drug lords.
O Brasil está mais seguro do que nunca, e as grandes cidades como Rio e São Paulo estão desfrutando de uma
espécie de renascimento. O graffiti está desaparecendo, novos restaurantes e cafés estão surgindo nas ruas. Até
mesmo as favelas do Brasil estão passando por um renascimento quando os moradores retiram suas comunidades
dos barões da droga.
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• 3. In your notebook put the words in the correct order to make questions about the text from
exercise 2. Then, answer the questions.
a) are / favelas / why / experiencing a rebirth
Why are favelas experiencing a rebirth ?
Because residents are taking their communities from the drug lords.
b) Is / what/ happening to graffiti ?
What is happening to graffiti ?
It is disappearing.
c) The text mention / does / which / Brazilian
Which Brazilian cities does the text mention ?
Rio and Sao Paulo.
 4. Replace the icons * with questions words to complete the questions about an important Brazilian painting.

a) * is the name of the painting ?

What is the name of the painting ?
Abaporu.
b) * does it mean ?
What does it mean ?
Abaporu means “ the man who eats”.
c) * is its painter ?
Who is its painter ?
Tarsila do Amaral.
d) * art movement does the painting belong to ?
Which art movement does the painting belong to ?
The Modernist Movement
e) * is the painting important to the Modernist Movement ?
Why is the painting important to the Modernist Movement ?
Because it represents renovation and freedom of Brazil’s national art.
f) * is Abaporu exhibited ?
Where is Abaporu exhibited ?
At latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires.
Possessive Pronouns – 5. Replace the icons* with possessive adjectives to complete the sentences about
artist Vick Muniz and his work.

a)Famous visual artist Vik Muniz lives and works in New York, but
his hometown is Sao Paulo.
b) Vik Muniz incorporates a multiplicity of unlikely materials into
his photographs.
c) The documentary “Lixo Extraordinário”shows photographs by
Vik Muniz.
Its title in English is “Waste Land”.
d) With the documentary Vik Muniz aims at inspiring
pickers of recycling materials to re-imagine
their lives.
e) Suelem is one of the garbage pickers from “Lixo
Extraordinário”and she’s proud of
her work.
 Present Simple or Present Continuous
• 6. Replace the icons * with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses to complete the
following sentences about rainforests.Use the Present Simple or the Past Continuous tenses.
a) We are losing
Earth’s greatest biological treasures just as we
are beginning
to appreciate their true value.
b) Experts
estimate that we
are losing
137 plant,animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest deforestation.
c) The Amazon rainforest covers
Over a billion acres […]
d) With 2.5 million square miles of rainforest,
the Amazon rainforest represents
54 percent of the total rainforests left on Earth.
 ING :Noun , Adjective or Verb?
7. Read the following fragments from the text on page 83 and focus on the
words in bold. Are they nouns, adjectives or verbs?

a) [...] a vibrant form of charitable art they call Favela Painting. (1º paragraph)
R = noun (substantivo)
b) [...] now I’m living in one[…] ( 1º paragraph)
R = verb (verb0)
c) The results are absolutely stunning[…] (2º paragraph)
R = adjective (adjetivo)
 Modal verbs of Possibility
8. Read the comic strip below and choose the correct modal verb to complete each statement about it. It is
not necessary to understand all the words in the text.

Respostas :
a) Calvin
couldn’t
be a true modern artist.
b) Calvin
might not
be a forger.
c) Calvin
may not
get into serious trouble.
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1) Answer the questions below in your notebook.
a) Who was Ayrton Senna? He was a race car driver.
b) Where was he from? He was from Brazil.
c) Why was he famous? He wasn’t a world champion/famous race car driver.

2) Turn over the page and, before reading the text, look at the picture,title and source of the
text. Then choose the correct item that completes each sentence below.
a) The text is an extract from : a reference book.
b) The text is the introductory part of : a biography of Ayrton Senna.
c) Ayrton Senna died at : an early age.
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• The quote that is connected to the main idea of the text is :
”Racing,competing,it’s my blood. It’s part of me,it’s part of my life: I have been
doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.”
Reading for detailed comprehension
1) a) Ayrton Senna was born in 1960.
b) Ayrton Senna died in 1994.
c) Ayrton Senna drove the family car when he was 8.
d) Ayrton Senna drove his first go-kart when he was 4.
e) Fittipaldi won the F1 World Championship in 1972.
f) The minimum age for racing karts in Brazil is 13.
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• 2) Respostas :
B) T ; C ) T ; D) F : Senna received a 100cc kart for his tenth birthday/ Senna
received a kart when he turned 10./ Senna received a go-kart when he was 4.
E) F : Senna won the elite Formula One series three times.
3) b) A professional race car driver.
c) Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart and Emerson Fittipaldi.
d) No, he wasn’t
e) Yes, he did.
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5) Choose the correct items:
a) No,they weren’t.
b) Yes, it was.
c) after was/were.
d) before the subject.
6) a) negative ; b) affirmative ; c) interrogative
7) a) Was/wasn’t/was
b) Did/use/didn’t/didn’t use
c) Did/ get/didn’t/got.
8) weren’t / was / had /got /gave.
9) a) a previus element.
b) to avoid repetition.