Discipline : English Language. Teachers name : Sandra Patrcia.

Students name : _________________________Class : 1 _______. Number : _______

STUDY GUIDE

Text I - The Amazon forest and the future of the world

1 The Amazon forest covers five million square kilometers and contains one third of the
worlds trees. But those trees are disappearing. If the destruction of the forest continues, there
will be nothing left by the year 2000.
4 What will happen if more of the Amazon forest is cut down ? Some scientists say there will
be serious effects on the worlds climate, and the air that we breathe will lose some of its
oxygen. Why is this ?
7 Trees absorb the gas carbon dioxide from the air, and give out oxygen into the air. The
Amazon forest provides 50% of the worlds annual production of oxygen. If we lose the tropical
forests, the air will contain much less oxygen and much more carbon dioxide. With more carbon
10 dioxide in the air, the temperature will rise; the ice-caps at the North and South Poles will melt ;
the sea level will rise. Life on earth will become difficult perhaps even impossible.

( adapted from The Amazon. Jane Molineaux. Amadeus Marques reading texts in English. Ed tica )

Text II - Save the Amazon!

Land
1 Land usually is cleared by a method called slash-and-burn, which contributes to global
warming by releasing great amounts of carbono dioxide into the atmosphere. Deforestation of
tropical rain forests contributes to climate change. Brazil loses 4.3 million (ha) of tropical
4 forests annually. Deforestation is by far the biggest problem in the Amazon. Huge reas of
rainforest are destroyed by clearing for agriculture, ilegal or unsustainable logging for timber,
and for industrial or urban development.Industrial agricultural production,especially soy
7 farms, has also been an importante driver of deforestation since the early 1990s.

Fonte : Book - Way to Go / Ingls (Ensino mdio).Franco, Claudio de Paiva. Ed. tica,2016. Page 92. (com adaptaes)

1. Considering the texts I and II, judge the following items .

a) ( ) According to text II, 80% of the oxygen that we breathe comes from the Amazon
forest .
b) ( ) According to text II, it is not correct to conclude that life on earth will grow into
a difficult life.
c) ( ) The verbs happen (line 4 ,text I) and breathe (line 5,text I) are regular verbs.
d) ( ) In the sentence Trees absorb the gas carbon dioxide from the air, the underlined
verb was written in the third singular person.
e) ( ) The sentence Deforestation of tropical rain forests contributes to climate change,
written in the past tense is : Deforestation of tropical rain forests contributeded to climate
change.

1. Change the sentences below to interrogative form :

a) The Amazon forest covers five million square kilometers.

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b) Trees absorb the gas carbon dioxide from the air.

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2. Rewrite the sentences (from exercise 2) into the Past tense.

a) The Amazon forest covers five million square kilometers.

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b) Trees absorb the gas carbon dioxide from the air.

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3. Read the sentences below. Underline the mistakes and correct them .
Follow the example .

a) Do Paul and Fred eats a lot ? eat____

b) Mary and her brother doesnt like egg. __________________
c) Did you brought your material last week ? _______________
d) She doesnt keeps the money in the bank. ______________
e) Paul doesnt fell well . We must to visit him. ______________
f) This patient would have the flu. She has all the typical symptoms.___________

4. Read the paragraph (Chapter 3) below from the Short Story Rich man, Poor
man and then complete the sentences with the verbs (in parentheses) in the
Simple Past Tense :

I _____________________________ ( know / negative form ) the price of

photographs. What could I do ? Then the photographer _______________(say /
affirmative form) , You are an old man. For you, the price is two pounds.

5. Considering the Short Story Rich man, Poor man, judge the following items.

a) ( ) Martha lived in the Village of Minta.

b) ( ) Adam was not illiterate .
c) ( ) The postman delivered and read the letter to Adam .
d) ( ) Soul left the village to live in a foreign country
e) ( ) Adam didnt get cash for the money order because his Identity Card was
out of date.