February 10th, 2015
Teacher
Benilde, English.
“Love always protects, always trust, always hopes,
always perseveres. Love never fails.’’
Critérios: 3(Participação)+3(Atividade)+4(Provão)=10
Seeds Of Speech
In the near future, 1,5 billion
people - a quarter of the world's population - will speak English. For 1,1 billion, it will be a second
or third language. English is rapidly becoming a
language for business, science and popular culture. Three
quarters of the world's mail and 80% of the electronic
mail on the internet
use English.
There aren't linguistic reasons for
this global dominance
of English. The grammar
is difficult, the pronunciation
eccentric, and the spelling peculiar. Maybe the
reason is the flexibility of the English language which incorporates
words from more than 150 different languages.
As English spreads across Australia, Asia and Africa, it will invariably be transformed
- even subverted. Perhaps English will fragment
into different languages
as Latin fragmented into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and
other languages 1,500 years ago.
(Adapted from the
article by James Geary, Time, 1995)
1) Segundo o texto, a língua
inglesa:
a) é pouco diferente das outras.
b) possui características absurdas.
c) não é muito fácil.
d) a língua inglesa já é falada em ¼ do globo.
2) Qual outro título seria adequado
ao texto?
a) Will Latim repeat English?
b)
What language will the word speak?
c) The global dominance.
d) A language of
inflexibility.
3) Escreva por extenso:
a) 80%= eighty per cent.
b) 1500= one thousand five
hundred.
4) Em “As English spreads across
Australia...” a palavra across não
pode ser substituída por:
a) all over.
b) through.
c) over.
d)
between.
