Questão FC478956
Powerful storm knocks out power to 1.4 million homes in Brazil’s largest city SAO PAULO (AP) — Around 1.4 million households in Sao Paulo, Brazil, were without power on Saturday al
Questões Interdisciplinares de Inglês
FGV · 2025
Powerful storm knocks out power to 1.4 million homes in
Brazil’s largest city
SAO PAULO (AP) — Around 1.4 million households in Sao Paulo, Brazil, were without power on Saturday almost 24 hours after a brief but powerful storm swept through South America’s largest metropolis. At least seven people were killed.
Officials in Sao Paulo state said that record winds of up to 67 mph (108 kph) knocked down transmission lines and destroyed trees, causing severe damage in some parts. The storm also shut down several airports and interrupted water service in several areas, according to the state government.
Authorities originally expected to restore power within a few hours. But several neighborhoods in the metropolitan area, which is home to 21 million people, were still in the dark on Saturday, and authorities were urging residents to limit their consumption of water.
https://apnews.com. Adaptado. Acesso em 24.04.2025
While preparing reading comprehension exercises on the text, the teacher notes the absolute predominance of verbs in the simple past. However, this is not a language class, but a reading one, and the teacher wouldn’t like to deal with the topic “verbs” in isolation, as followers of structuralism would do. This way, in trying to articulate reading comprehension and linguistic knowledge, in a class on the text “Powerful storm knocks out power to 1.4 million homes in Brazil’s largest city”, the teacher
- proposes that, while reading the text, the students underline all verbs in the text and focus on the ones they are already familiar with.
- selects some of the verbs from the text and proposes they are used in the production of a new text around the theme “storms and floods”.
- tells students not to worry about verb forms since this is a reading comprehension class, not a ‘grammar comprehension’ one.
- suggests the creation of a short glossary, for future reference, containing the past form of the irregular verbs used in the text.
- revisits the simple past as a verb tense used to talk about actions and facts completed in a past time, and relates it to the narrative content of the text.
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A alternativa propõe revisitar o simple past como tempo verbal usado para falar de ações concluídas no passado e relacioná‑lo ao conteúdo da notícia.
O professor identifica a predominância desse tempo no texto e orienta atividades que expliquem sua função narrativa: estabelecer sequência temporal, registrar fatos como concluídos e conferir objetividade ao relato.
Exemplos de procedimentos: localizar ocorrências do simple past, ordenar os eventos em linha do tempo, perguntar por que o autor escolheu esse tempo e pedir que os alunos reescrevam trechos em outro tempo para comparar efeitos.
Essa abordagem integra conhecimento gramatical e leitura, pois usa a análise do tempo verbal como recurso para aprofundar a compreensão do enunciado, da progressão dos acontecimentos e do efeito informativo da notícia.
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