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The Times They Are A-Changin' - By Bob Dylan
Come gather 'round, people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters around you have
grown
And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the
bone
If your time to you is worth saving
Then you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like
a stone
For the times, they are a-changin'
Come writers and critics who prophesize with
your pen
And keep your eyes wide, the chance won't
come again
And don't speak too soon, for the wheel's still in
spin
And there's no tellin' who that it's namin'
For the loser now will be later to win
For the times, they are a-changin'
Come senators, congressmen, please heed the
call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin'
Will soon shake your windows and rattle your
walls
For the times, they are a-changin'
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize what you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly aging
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend
your hand
The line, it is drawn
The curse, it is cast
The slow one now will later be fast
As the present now will later be past
The order is rapidly fading
And the first one now will later be last
For the times, they are a-changin'
For the times, they are a-changin'
Text 3
Digital habits across generations
Today’s grandparents are joining their grandchildren on social media, but the different generations’ online habits couldn’t be more different. In the UK the over55s are joining Facebook in increasing numbers, meaning that they will soon be the site’s second biggest user group, with 3.5 million users aged 55-64 and 2.9 million over-65s.
Sheila, aged 59, says, ‘I joined to see what my grandchildren are doing, as my daughter posts videos and photos of them. It’s a much better way to see what they’re doing than waiting for letters and photos in the post. That’s how we did it when I was a child, but I think I’m lucky I get to see so much more of their lives than my grandparents did.’ Ironically, Sheila’s grandchildren are less likely to use Facebook themselves. Children under 17 in the UK are leaving the site – only 2.2 million users are under 17 – but they’re not going far from their smartphones.
Chloe, aged 15, even sleeps with her phone. ‘It’s my alarm clock so I have to,’ she says. ‘I look at it before I go to sleep and as soon as I wake up.’ Unlike her grandmother’s generation, Chloe’s age group is spending so much time on their phones at home that they are missing out on spending time with their friends in real life. Sheila, on the other hand, has made contact with old friends from school she hasn’t heard from in forty years. ‘We use Facebook to arrange to meet all over the country,’ she says. ‘It’s changed my social life completely.’ Teenagers might have their parents to thank for their smartphone and social media addiction as their parents were the early adopters of the smartphone. Peter, 38 and father of two teenagers, reports that he used to be on his phone or laptop constantly. ‘I was always connected and I felt like I was always working,’ he says. ‘How could I tell my kids to get off their phones if I was always in front of a screen myself?’ So, in the evenings and at weekends, he takes his SIM card out of his smartphone and puts it into an old-style mobile phone that can only make calls and send text messages. ‘I’m not completely cut off from the world in case of emergencies, but the important thing is I’m setting a better example to my kids and spending more quality time with them.’ Is it only a matter of time until the generation above and below Peter catches up with the new trend for a less digital life?
Source: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org
Study these sentences below and decide if they are true ( T ) or false ( F ), according to the information in text 3.
( ) Grandparents are your parents’ parents.
( ) In the following sentence: It’s changed my social life completely. The (‘s) is the contracted form of has.
( ) The word media (underlined in the first paragraph) is the singular form of medium and it is a countable noun.
( ) The underlined words in the second paragraph them and themselves are, respectively an object pronoun and a reflexive pronoun.
( ) In the following sentence Chloe’s age group is spending so much time on their phones at home that they are missing out on spending time with their friends in real life., the words spending, missing and spending are being used as nouns.
Choose the alternative which presents the correct sequence, from top to bottom.
Text 3
Digital habits across generations
Today’s grandparents are joining their grandchildren on social media, but the different generations’ online habits couldn’t be more different. In the UK the over55s are joining Facebook in increasing numbers, meaning that they will soon be the site’s second biggest user group, with 3.5 million users aged 55-64 and 2.9 million over-65s.
Sheila, aged 59, says, ‘I joined to see what my grandchildren are doing, as my daughter posts videos and photos of them. It’s a much better way to see what they’re doing than waiting for letters and photos in the post. That’s how we did it when I was a child, but I think I’m lucky I get to see so much more of their lives than my grandparents did.’ Ironically, Sheila’s grandchildren are less likely to use Facebook themselves. Children under 17 in the UK are leaving the site – only 2.2 million users are under 17 – but they’re not going far from their smartphones.
Chloe, aged 15, even sleeps with her phone. ‘It’s my alarm clock so I have to,’ she says. ‘I look at it before I go to sleep and as soon as I wake up.’ Unlike her grandmother’s generation, Chloe’s age group is spending so much time on their phones at home that they are missing out on spending time with their friends in real life. Sheila, on the other hand, has made contact with old friends from school she hasn’t heard from in forty years. ‘We use Facebook to arrange to meet all over the country,’ she says. ‘It’s changed my social life completely.’ Teenagers might have their parents to thank for their smartphone and social media addiction as their parents were the early adopters of the smartphone. Peter, 38 and father of two teenagers, reports that he used to be on his phone or laptop constantly. ‘I was always connected and I felt like I was always working,’ he says. ‘How could I tell my kids to get off their phones if I was always in front of a screen myself?’ So, in the evenings and at weekends, he takes his SIM card out of his smartphone and puts it into an old-style mobile phone that can only make calls and send text messages. ‘I’m not completely cut off from the world in case of emergencies, but the important thing is I’m setting a better example to my kids and spending more quality time with them.’ Is it only a matter of time until the generation above and below Peter catches up with the new trend for a less digital life?
Source: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org
Analyze the sentences from text 3 below according to structure and grammar use.
1. The phrasal verb in: Unlike her grandmother’s generation, Chloe’s age group is spending so much time on their phones at home that they are missing out on spending time with their friends in real life. means in its context that they are not be able to experience an opportunity or chance.
2. The word Ironically, in bold in the second paragraph is being used as an adverb to express irony.
3. The reference words in bold in the first paragraph their and they, create cohesion that
precedes coherence.
4. In the following sentence from the third paragraph: Unlike her grandmother’s generation, Chloe’s age group is spending so… the (‘s) in grandmother’s and Chloe’s indicates the short form of the verb to be in the present tense.
5. The conjunctive adverb Unlike in bold in the third paragraph, is used to introduce a statement that contrasts with a previous statement.
Choose the alternative which contains the correct
sentences.
English for Specific Purposes, or ESP, refers to learning English because students have a specific need. To develop a specific need such as Reading Comprehension, readers will need to use some strategies.
Study the sentences bellow about the topic.
1. A rapid look over a text in order to extract some general ideas from it is called the Skimming Strategy.
2. When the students look for some information in an encyclopedia or an ad in a newspaper, or use a Portuguese monolingual dictionary, they are scanning.
3. An ESP approach a great part of students is aware that English and Portuguese have few words in common.
4. Looking for repeated words is the reading strategy that is not very used by Brazilian students because it may be difficult to locate and understand these words at the beginning of the process.
Choose the alternative which contains the correct sentences.
[…] The development of communicative competence involves the acquisition and use of so-called language skills, which are promoted from the communicative approach in an integrated manner and with real communication purposes. To contribute to the development of these communicative language skills, the English teacher has a continuum of options ranging from so-called pre-communicative activities to proper communication activities. According to Littlewood (1998), the first are based on accuracy and present structures, functions, and vocabulary; the latter focus on fluency and involve information sharing and exchange.
Analyze the sentences below about the concept of Communicative Competence.
1. The ability to select skills to solve verbal and non-verbal activities is called Communicative Competence.
2. To achieve communicative goals in a socially appropriate manner is the ability of Communicative Competence.
3. Communicative competence can be acquired, to develop, step by step, through repeated, reflected practice and experience skills.
4. Grammatical competence, sociolinguistic competence, discourse competence and strategic competence are the components of Communicative Competence.
Choose the alternative which contains the correct sentences.
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