1ª EM - 17/04

APOSTILA - páginas 24,25 e 26

1. Assista o clip, traduza a letra se necessário e diga sobre o que fala a música.



Beautiful Day

The heart is a bloom
Shoots up through the stony ground
There's no room
No space to rent in this town

You're out of luck
And the reason that you had to care
The traffic is stuck
And you're not moving anywhere

You thought you'd found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend a hand
In return for grace

It's a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away

You're on the road
But you've got no destination
You're in the mud
In the maze of her imagination

You love this town
Even if that doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you

It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
It's a beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Teach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case

See the world in green and blue
See China right in front of you
See the canyons broken by cloud
See the tuna fleets clearing the sea out
See the Bedouin fires at night
See the oil fields at first light
And see the bird with a leaf in her mouth
After the flood all the colors came out

It was a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Beautiful day

Touch me
Take me to that other place
Reach me
I know I'm not a hopeless case

What you don't have, you don't need it now
What you don't know, you can feel it somehow
What you don't have, you don't need it now
Don't need it now

Was a beautiful day

2. Imagine the following situation: you work for the Brazilian Embassy in the United States and have to write in English about our country for their website. You will need to create a section about the advantages of coming to Brazil to study Portuguese! Think about learning opportunities, people’s culture, habits, etc. Write a list with your ideas. ( Imagine que você trabalha para a Embaixada do Brasil nos Estados unidos e é responsável por escrever informações para a página da web, em inglês, no site brasileiro da organização, destinadas a interessados em visitar e estudar em nosso país). 

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3. Now, get into small groups and compare your lists. Organize the ideas into topics and write them down in the following lines. (Façam uma lista com ideias (em português) sobre as vantagens e as oportunidades de aprendizagem que existem no Brasil, na cidade ou na comunidade onde vocês estão localizados. Vocês podem pensar em muitas opções relacionadas à aprendizagem da cultura, da língua, dos hábitos e costumes ou do folclore brasileiros, por exemplo. 

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LANGUAGE_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

HABITS___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

TRADITIONS______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

OTHER_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. First draft: still in groups, compare your notes and put your ideas together to complement the description. Use illustrations or photos from your city and from Brazil. After your text is finished, show it to your classmates or have a school exhibition. Example:

An intercultural study program in Brazil

In Brazil, people are very nice. You can make lots of friends and learn a lot of different things! Because the country is so big, there are several cultural traditions. In the north, there is a festival called bumba meu boi or boi-bumbá.

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