ATIVIDADE 3 - LET - PRÁTICAS DISCURSIVAS DA LÍNGUA INGLESA - 54_2025

Read the following excerpt of “A New England Nun” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.

“If he could have known it, it would have increased his perplexity and uneasiness, although it would not have disturbed his loyalty in the least. He came twice a week to see Louisa Ellis, and every time, sitting there in her delicately sweet room, he felt as if surrounded by a hedge of lace. He was afraid to stir lest he should put a clumsy foot or hand through the fairy web, and he had always the consciousness that Louisa was watching fearfully lest he should.”

Taking the excerpts into account, analyze the following statements.

I. The sentence “If he could have known it, it would have increased his perplexity and uneasiness, although it would not have disturbed his loyalty in the least […]” is composed by two modal verbs: “could” and “would”.

II. If the sentence “He came twice a week to see Louisa Ellis […]” was changed to adapt the modal verb “could”, it should be written as “He could come twice a week to see Louisa Ellis […]”.

III. The sentence “He was afraid to stir lest he should put a clumsy foot or hand through the fairy web […]” has the modal verb “should” followed by the verb “put” in the infinitive form without “to”.

IV. The sentence “[…] he had always the consciousness that Louisa was watching fearfully lest he should” has the modal verb “should” which is not altered by the subject “he”.

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Once In A Blue Moon - Lighthouse Family

Wishin we could choose our own landscape

Wishin me and you could just go anywhere we wanted

Once in a blue moon

We'd stay out late

And watch the sun come up at 3:30 in the morning

Oh yeah

Once in a blue moon

Day will surely come

One day I'll be with you

Day will surely come

[…]

Taking the lyrics into account, analyze the following statements.

I. “Once in a blue moon” is an idiom related to the idea of something that happens frequently.

II. The lyric describes an event that may happen, eventually.

III. It is not possible to change the color “blue” by “green”, otherwise it is not an idiom anymore.

IV. The events described on the lyrics show plans of a person who is certain that the situation will not real.

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Read the following excerpt from “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe:

“I married early, and was happy to find in my wife a disposition not uncongenial with my own. Observing my partiality for domestic pets, she lost no opportunity of procuring those of the most agreeable kind. We had birds, gold-fish, a fine dog, rabbits, a small monkey, and a cat”.

Taking the excerpt into account and the information about the past simple tense, analyze the following statements.

I. After reading this excerpt, we can find some verbs in the past simple tense, such as: married, was, lost, had.

II. This short story was written in the past simple tense and the verbs “married”, “was”, “lost”, “had” used in this excerpt are, respectively, “marry”, “to be”, “lose”, “have” in the infinitive form.

III. We have regular and irregular verbs in the past simple form. Analyzing the verbs from the short story excerpt, we can see that “married”, “was”, “lost”, “had” are all irregular verbs.

IV. We have regular and irregular verbs in the past simple form. Analyzing the verbs from the short story excerpt, we can see that “married”, “was”, “lost”, “had” are all regular verbs.

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Considering what you remember from the text genre "movie reviews", read the following review from the movie ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’.

‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Review: Another One Bites the Dust

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“Bohemian Rhapsody,” the movie about Queen, lasts more than two hours, not a very long time by modern feature standards, even though it feels interminable. A baroque blend of gibberish, mysticism and melodrama, the film seems engineered to be as unmemorable as possible, with the exception of the prosthetic teeth worn by the lead actor, Rami Malek, who plays Freddie Mercury, Queen’s lead singer. Those choppers may give you nightmares. And some of you who venture into the theater will surely be inspired to exclaim “Mama mia, let me go!”[…]

Taking the review into account, analyze the following statements.

I. The sentence “And some of you who venture into the theater will surely be inspired to exclaim “Mama mia, let me go!” is an example of future tense because of the verb “will”.

II. One of the possibilities to use “will” is when we want to talk about prediction.

III. It is possible to understand that people who have already gone to the theaters exclaimed “Mama mia, let me go!”.

IV. This excerpt from a review from the movie “Bohemian Rhapsody” gives us a description of the events in the movie and some viewers opinion about it.

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Read the following example of abstract:

“The Southwest shrub Juniperus communis (Juniper Berry) has many significant medicinal value in the Native American culture that has not been proven scientifically. One of the popular uses of Juniper berries aside from its detoxifying action is its potential to repel insects. This study focuses on the development of insect repellant from its essential oil obtained through steam distillation. 50 g of fresh berries was collected and dried for 5 days and is placed in a still tank with 100 mL of water for steam distillation using the Flinn Scientific Borosilicate Lab Kit. Gather the extracted oil and dilute 70% in three separate containers to be transferred into spray bottles. Testing involved the spraying of the dilute sample into a class jar with Anopheles juidthae (common NM mosquito) and compared this to the effect of a commercial insect repellant. After testing and comparing the result, the commercial insect repellant significantly showed that it is a better insect repellant compared to the J. communis diluted essential oil. However, the essential oil has also an insect repellant potential.

Taking the excerpt into account and the information about abstracts, analyze the following statements.

I. After reading this abstract, it is possible to understand the purpose of the research involving Juniper Berries and their use in creating an insect repellant, because the abstract presents a summary of the article.

II. Normally, in abstracts, it is presented the methodology of the research with some details, in order to make the reader understand what the research is about.

III. One element that can be found in an abstract is the summary of the results, in order to show the readers what they may expect by reading the whole research.

IV. One other move that is possible to be found in an abstract is the conclusion of the research, normally presented at the end of the text.

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In what might be a filming-first, emperor penguins were captured caring for a snowball "egg"

While filming the latest BBC Natural History documentary, Dynasties, the crew were surprised to come across an emperor penguin who seemed to be prematurely incubating an egg, but the truth was something far more unusual. The expecting mother wasn't caring for egg, but rather a snowball, tucked up snuggly under the penguin's warm feathers. […]

Taking the excerpt into account, analyze the following statements.

I. The word “while” is an example of connective on the sentence “While filming the latest BBC Natural History documentary […]”.

II. The word “while” is an example of connective indicating time on the sentence “While filming the latest BBC Natural History documentary […]”.

III. The word “while” is an example of connective indicating condition on the sentence “While filming the latest BBC Natural History documentary […]”.

IV. The word “while” is an example of connective indicating contrast on the sentence “While filming the latest BBC Natural History documentary […]”.

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"The theories in language teaching-learning have been changed over time due to the influence of linguistic, psychological, educational and political perspectives derived from “a mixture of assertion, theory, observation and experiment” (Hall & Cook, 2012, p. 272). Developing new methods and techniques is a challenging task for foreign language teachers. [...] Linguists opine that there is an intimate relationship between language and literature (Violetta-Irene, 2015). According to Brumfit and Ronald (1986), literature is ‘an ally of language’. Moreover, Maley (1989) identified some of the causes for recognizing literature as a forceful resource in the way of learning language: universality, non-triviality, personal relevance, variety, interest, economy and suggestive power, ambiguity etc."

​Success is counted sweetest – Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest

By those who ne'er succeed.

To comprehend a nectar

Requires sorest need.

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Imagine you have just finished college and started working as a teacher. In order to innovate in class, you brought literature to work some topics of the English language with your students.Taking the text and the poem into account, analyze the following statements.

I. Working with literature may help the student not only with the structures of the English language, but also with any other social matters.

II. When using this poem in class you could show your students that it is possible to replace “who” by “which” without changing the meaning.

III. It is possible to work with the English language through literature due to their intimate relationship.

IV. Relative clauses is one of the grammar topics brought up by this poem, such as the use of “who”, which is similar to “that” and can be replaced in some situations without changing the meaning of the sentence.

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And I become the other dreamers.”

― Walt Whitman

Taking the quotation into account, analyze the following statements and the relationship between them.

I. The dreams dreamed by the writer were also dreamed by different people.

II. In the sentence “all the dreams of the other dreamers” is possible to understand that there were more people dreaming.