INGLÊS

ALUNO: YAGO DE OLIVEIRA DA SILVA

3° ANO A MATUTINO

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WARMING UP
The photos show what the children want to become when they grow up. What do your parents
want you to be? What about you?
Eles nunca tentaram impor algo, mas eu quero ser Desginer Gráfico ou Designer de Marcas.

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1. Read the text below and discuss the following questions in pairs.
a. Would you like to follow in your parents’ footsteps? If so, what would you do?
Questão de trabalho não.
b. Do your parents (or close relatives) have high expectations about your career choices? If
so, what are they?
Sim. Um profissional qualificado e empresário.

2. Choose the proverb below that expresses the idea of a person who has followed in a
parent’s footsteps. Write the answer in your notebook.
a. Everyone is the son of his own works.

b. Two footsteps do not make a path.

c. Like father, like son.

3. Replace each icon ✪ with career, work or job to complete the quotes below. Write the
answers in your notebook.
a. “Choose a ✪ you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
job
b. “It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your ✪.”
career
c. “✪ to become, not to acquire.”
work

4. Read the quotes in exercise 3 again and answer the following questions in pairs.
a. In your opinion, what is the difference between a career and a job?
Job can be just a temporary function which may not make you feel happy or fullfilled. A career is
something you build over time with a lot of hard work, and it's part of who you are somehow.

b. Which quote do you prefer? Why?

I prefer the quote that says that parents are always hoping for the best for their children. It doesn't
really matter if their are going to follow their parents' dreams for them or only be happy with their
own ways.
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1. Read different parents’ expectations on career decisions and choose the one(s) you
agree with. Write the answer in your notebook.
a. “Find something that you truly love and always follow your heart.”

2. Turn over the page and, before reading the text, look at the picture, the title, the
subheadings and the structure of the text. Then choose the correct item that completes
each sentence below (▲ or ■). Write the answers in your notebook.
a. The text is intended for
▲ adults.
■ children.

b. The text was published on

▲ a blog.
■ an online newspaper.

3. The text is organized into two parts: an introduction that presents a question and the
answers to that question. Notice the words in bold in the text and answer the questions
below in your notebook.
a. What is the main question posed in the introduction?
What did your parents want you to be?

b. How many answers to that question are there?

4

4. What jobs do you expect to be mentioned in the text? Write the answers in your
notebook.
Empresário.

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What is the main purpose of the text? Choose the correct item that answers this question.
Write the answer in your notebook.
a. To discover the career expectations of youngsters.
b. To discuss the positive impact of parental expectations on career decisions.
c. To present different stories regarding parental expectations on career decisions.

1. Replace each icon ✪ with Michelle, Marieta, Pablo or Maryse to complete the sentences
below. Write the answers in your notebook.
a. ✪ works with sales.
MARYSE
b. ✪ has chosen the career of a family member’s dreams.
PABLO
c. ✪ was encouraged to look for financial independence.
MICHELLE
d. ✪ is the first person in the family to graduate from university
MARIETA

2. Are the following statements true or false? In your notebook write T (True) or F (False)
for each statement. Then correct the false statements.
a. Parents’ expectations do not play an important part in a person’s career path.
F - Parents’ expectations play an important part in/have an impact on a person’s career path.
b. It is expected that parents put a few expectations on their children.
T

c. Michelle and her sister were advised to find a career that they would love to pursue.
F - Michelle and her sister were advised/encouraged to find a career that they would be able to
support themselves with and never have to rely on a man.

d. Pablo’s parents were pleased when he decided to join the Army.

F - Pablo’s parents were devastated when he decided to join the Army.

e. Maryse’s father did not impose a career path on her.

T

3. Go back to the text and find a fragment to support each statement below. Write the
answers in your notebook.
a. Parents cannot prevent themselves from putting expectations on their children.
they also can’t help but be human and put a few expectations on them.

b. There was a great diversity in the responses to the question “What did your parents want
you to be?
they covered the gamut from ‘be a doctor‘ to ‘piano playing will always pay the bills’.

4. In the fragments below, what do the pronouns in bold refer to? Choose the correct
answers (▲ or ■) and write them in your notebook. a. ■ ; b. ■ ; c. ■ ; d. ▲; e. ■
a. … own recollections of their parents’ expectations… (paragraph 4)
▲ recollections
■ different professionals from Canada

b. … get paid for doing it. (paragraph 5)

▲ find a way
■ something that they loved to do

c. Three of them … (paragraph 5)

▲ my in-laws
■ my husband and his brothers

d. … so anything after that was a bonus! (paragraph 7)

▲ finishing university
■ the first person

e. … which made my mother very proud … (paragraph 9)

▲ school
■ I played the role of lawyer in a play at school

READING FOR CRITICAL THINKING

Discuss the following questions with your classmates.

a. Do you think parents’ and other relatives’ opinions about your career choices can help
you make a decision about what career path you should follow? Why (not)?
DEPENDE.
b. Happiness, social status and financial stability are some of the aspects people often look
for when choosing a career. What do you expect from your future career?
ESTABILIDADE ECONOMICA.

c. Marieta was the first person in her family to finish university. In your opinion, how
important is a university degree for someone’s career? What other ways are there to
become more qualified?
UM DIPLOMA É APENAS UM PAPEL, ACHO QUE A EXPERIÊNCIA PROVADA É 101 VEZES
MELHOR QUE UM DIPLOMA.

VOCABULARY STUDY
1. Match the multi-word verbs to their meanings.
a. grow up I. finally be in a particular place or situation
b. turn out II. happen in a particular way; have a particular result
c. end up III. become older or an adult
d. get into IV. be accepted by an organization/school; start doing
something
RESPOSTA = a. III; b. II; c. I; d. IV

2. Replace each icon ✪ with a multi-word verb from exercise 1 to complete the following
sentences. Use the appropriate verb forms.
a. She will ✪ being a doctor just like her parents and uncle.
END UP
b. What a disaster her quick career decision ✪ to be!
turned out
c. I ✪ hearing my parents complain about their jobs.
grew up
d. My brother ✪ law school at 16. He is a genius!
got into

3. Read the fragments below and choose the correct item that completes each sentence
that follows (▲, ■ or ●). Write the answers in your notebook.

a. In fragment I, another verb that can replace finish is

▲ apply for. ■ enter. ● graduate from.

b. In fragment II, another verb that can replace join is

▲ leave. ■ go into. ● train.

c. In fragment III, another verb that can replace play is

▲ perform. ■ find. ● swap.

4. Copy the table below in your notebook and replace each icon ✪ with a word from the
text. Write the answers in your notebook.
• an ✪ on your eventual career path
Impact
• never have to ✪ on a man
Rely
• ✪ on finding something that you really loved to do
Discussions
• played the ✪ of a lawyer
role
• she would be very ✪ of me
Proud

5. Replace the icons ✪ with words of your choice to express your opinions. Use the
prepositions on or of. Write the answers in your notebook.
a. My friends should rely ✪.
TRUST
b. I am very proud ✪.
OF YOU
c. ✪ have a significant impact ✪.
HE MUST, THIS.

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1. Choose the correct item that completes each sentence below (▲ or ■).
a. ■; b. ■; c. ■
a. The fragments
▲ quote the exact words of the speaker.
■ report what the speaker said without quoting his/her exact words.

b. The fragments are in

▲ direct speech.
■ indirect speech.

c. The reporting verb is the same in fragments

▲ II and IV.
■ II, III and IV.

2. Replace each icon ✪ with I, II, III or IV to complete the following statements as in the
example.
a. The reporting verb encourage is used with the structure:
• encourage someone to do something, as in fragment I.

b. The reporting verb tell can be used with the structures:

• tell someone to do something, as in fragments ✪ and ✪. • tell someone that…, as in
fragment ✪.
II, IV; III.

3. In your notebook, rewrite the fragments above. Use direct speech as in the following
example.
a. “Find a career that you will be able to support yourselves with,” said our dad. (Fragment
I)
b. “✪,” said my in-laws to my husband and his brothers. (Fragment II)
Find something that you love to do

c. “✪,” said my mom. (Fragment III)

I always wanted to be a journalist as a youngster
d. “✪,” said my father. (Fragment IV)
Do what makes you happy, and follow your heart

4. Read the short text below and choose the correct item that completes each sentence on
the right (▲ or ■). Write the answers in your notebook.

a. As Tamy is a blogs editor, we infer that she

■ has not followed the career path her father had expected.

b. The text in direct speech is

▲ “You should be a laywer because you always have opinions about everything, and you will
defend them very passionately”, said my dad.

5. Choose the correct item that completes each sentence below (▲ or ■).

a. Ilona and Jacqueline talk about parental expectations by

▲ quoting their parents’ exact words.
■ reporting what their parents said without quoting the exact words.

b. The parent who wanted his/her child to follow in his/her footsteps is

▲ Ilona’s father.
■ Jacqueline’s mother.

c. The parent whose career expectation was met is

▲ Ilona’s father.
■ Jacqueline’s mother

6. What punctuation mark is used in each text to introduce the speaker’s exact words in
quotes?
Comma, in the first text and colon, in the second.

7. Rewrite the sentences below. Use indirect speech as in the following example.
a. My father said, “No matter what happens in life, if you know how to play, you can always
teach piano.” My father said
no matter what happened in life, if I knew how to play, I could always teach piano.

b. My mother said, “I wanted you to be a strong independent woman who could look after
herself.” My mother said ✪
she had wanted me to be a strong independent woman who could look after herself/myself.

c. My mother said, “You were very goal-oriented at a young age and I knew you would be
successful at whatever you chose to do.” My mother said ✪
I had been very goal-oriented at a young age and she had known I would be successful at
whatever I chose to do.

d. My mother said, “When in high school I thought you might be a writer – a news writer
and travel, or a novelist because you are so imaginative and such a good writer.”
My mother said ✪
when in high school she had thought I might be a writer – a news writer and travel, or a novelist
because I was so imaginative and such a good writer.
8. Copy the following table in your notebook and replace each icon ✪ with the correct verb
form. Use the verbs from exercise 7 as in the example below.

Happens | happened
Know | knew
Can | could
Wanted | had wanted
Could | could
Were | had been

Knew | had known

Would | would
Chose | had chosen
Thought | had thought
Might | might
(you) are | was