AS ATIVIDADES DEVEM SER ENTREGUES EM FOLHA SEPARADA.
A) Reading and comprehension
Brazil reduces in 800 million the number of plastic bags
used in one year
22/10/2010 12:00 – Portal Brasil
Campaign of the Ministry of Environment gained the support of the
private sector and Brazilian cities
Refuse, reduce, reuse. With this slogan, Brazil started to face, a little
over a year ago, one of the main problems of pollution in the cities. The
campaign of the Ministry of Environment – Bags Suck – created to decrease the
consumption and the discard of plastic bags in the country – gained the empathy
of the public opinion, the adhesion of cities, private companies and has
already attained good results. The one-year balance carried out by the Ministry
shows that the campaign has managed to avoid the use of about 800 million
plastic bags in Brazil.
http://www.brasil.gov.br/news/history/2010/10/22/brazil-reduces-in-800-
-million-the-number-of-plastic-bags-used-in-one-year/newsitem_view?set_
language=en
1. De acordo com o título do
texto, qual o número de sacos plásticos que deixaram de ser usados em um ano?
2. Traduza o slogan da campanha: “Refuse,
reduce, reuse”
3. Assinale a frase que
repete a ideia expressa pelo título do artigo: “Brazil reduces in 800 million
the number of plastic bags used in one year”.
( ) Campaign of the Ministry of Environment gained the
support of the private sector and Brazilian cities.
( ) Refuse, reduce, reuse. With this slogan, Brazil started to face, a little
over a year ago, one of the main problems of pollution in the cities.
( ) The one-year balance carried
out by the Ministry shows that the campaign has managed to avoid the use of
about 800 million plastic bags in Brazil.
Reading and comprehension
B) Reading and comprehension
Impacts on the environment
According to the campaign coordination, Brazilians consume about 1.5
million plastic bags an hour. This results in 12 billion bags a year.
After being used once, most of them go straight to the environment. In
the ocean, the plastic bags are confused with food and end up killing turtles,
sea birds and dolphins by asphyxia. In the cities, the bags thrown in the
street or discarded recklessly clog gutters and prevent the water from draining
– worsening floods.
Great Brazilian rivers such as the Amazon River
have already been the target of plastic bag collection campaigns due to the
excess left by travelers. The outskirts of cities, especially where there is no
adequate trash collection, are filled with plastic bags. In landfills, they
prevail. The problem affects all countries. The
world consumes about 1 trillion plastic bags every year.
Resumido e adaptado de http://www.brasil.gov.br/news/history/2010/10/22/
brazil-reduces-in-800-million-the-number-of-plastic-bags-used-in-one-year/
newsitem_view?set_language=en
1. Retire do texto as
seguintes informações:
a) O Brasil consome cerca de 1 milhão e
quinhentas mil sacolas plásticas por hora.
b) No oceano as sacolas são confundidas com
comida e acabam matando por asfixia tartarugas, pássaros marinhos e golfinhos.
c) Nas cidades, as sacolas
jogadas nas ruas entopem e impedem a água de escoar, piorando as enchentes.
d) O problema afeta todos os
países.
e) São consumidas cerca de um
trilhão de sacolas plásticas a cada ano no mundo todo.
C) Reading and comprehension
Brazil: World Leader in Recycling Aluminium Cans
Yans Felippe Geckler Medina
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 3, 2010 (IPS) – For the
last nine years Brazil
has led the world in recycling aluminium cans, of which it reuses 96.5 percent,
and it now has a strong chance of reaching the 100 percent mark.
More than 14 billion cans were recycled last year, equivalent to four
ships the size of the Titanic.
The recycled cans provide a livelihood for more than 180,000 families,
as well as business for the owners of the collecting and storage centres.
Every day, over 300 people come to Armando da Costa’s storage warehouse
in central Rio de Janeiro,
to deliver about 500 kilos of aluminium containers, especially beverage cans.
From the storage facilities, the cans are transported by truck to large
industrial complexes, creating jobs and income for drivers.
For instance, a truck driver from Foz de Iguaçu on the border with
Argentina and Paraguay may take 14 tonnes of cans 1,200 kilometres
by road to Pindamonhangaba, a town in the state of São Paulo and the location
of a major recycling centre, contributing to the 250 tonnes a day that are
melted and recycled at an industrial plant.
After burning, melting and recycling, aluminium conserves 95 percent of
its original chemical characteristics.
In 2006, aluminium can recycling reached a level of 91.7 percent in Japan and 52 percent in the United States
and the European Union. (END/2010)
Resumido e adaptado de:
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52370 em 14 de novembro de 2010.
Observar as referências numéricas
presentes no texto é uma das estratégias que nos facilita a leitura e a
compreensão. A seguir, você vai encontrar diversos números presentes no texto
anterior. Relacione cada número ao qual ele se refere:
(1) 14 billion
(2) 180.000
(3) 500
(4) 14
(5) 250
(6) 96,5
(7) 52
( ) Percentual das latas de
alumínio que o Brasil recicla.
( ) Percentual de reciclagens
das latas de alumínio nos Estados Unidos e na Europa.
( ) Número de famílias que se
sustentam com o dinheiro proveniente da reciclagem das latas de alumínio.
( ) Número de latas
recicladas no último ano.
( ) Número de quilos de
recipientes de alumínio entregues todos os dias no depósito da Central do
Brasil, especialmente latas de bebida.
( ) Número de toneladas de
latas de alumínio que um caminhão pode transportar de Foz do Iguaçu até um
grande centro de reciclagem na cidade de Pindamonhangaba, em São Paulo.
( ) Número de toneladas de
alumínio que são derretidas e recicladas em uma usina industrial.
Traduza os grupos nominais encontrados nos textos:
a) Brazilian cities =
b) public opinion =
c) private companies =
d) adequate trash collection =
e) the campaign coordination =
f) aluminium cans =
g) a major recycling center =
h) a truck driver =
i) the last nine years =
