(Originais Teachy 2023) - Questão Difícil de Inglês

Imagine you are planning a surprise birthday party for your best friend, and you need to make sure that everything is organized perfectly. Write a paragraph describing the preparations you will make and the tasks you and your friends are going to complete before the big day. Use a variety of future tenses, including 'will' and 'going to', to explain your plans and intentions.

In a small English town, there is an annual race for students. The participants come in all shapes and sizes, and each has their unique qualities. As part of an interview with a local newspaper, the organizers are describing the latest race and the contenders. Jodie was astonished by how the organizers used different adjectives to talk about the students. She noticed that some were being described as 'fast' and 'tall', while others as 'slow' and 'short'. It suddenly occurred to her that the adjectives used were all around her, on banners and in the conversations she overheard. Jodie realised that these adjectives were crucial in helping people understand the students' performance and appearance. She decided to make a list of these adjectives and sort them into two groups that would best describe the students. According to the story, what are the key adjectives used to describe the students in the race, and how would Jodie categorize them based on their meaning?

Imagine que você está brincando no parque com seu amigo e ele pergunta se você quer jogar bola. Você não gosta de jogar bola e quer recusar o convite. Na língua inglesa, podemos dizer 'não' de duas maneiras diferentes em uma frase: usando a palavra 'not' ou a palavra 'não'. Por exemplo, se seu amigo disser 'Let's play soccer', você pode responder 'I do not want to play soccer' ou 'I don't want to play soccer'. Escreva a frase que você usaria para recusar o convite do seu amigo, usando a palavra 'not' para formar a negativa.

Considerando a importância dos antônimos e sinônimos para a compreensão de textos em inglês, avalie o trecho a seguir de uma peça teatral famosa e destaque um par de antônimos e um par de sinônimos relevantes ao texto. Em seguida, explique como a escolha dessas palavras contribui para o desenvolvimento do significado ou do estilo do texto. 'To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life.' - William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet' (Act 3, Scene 1)