A tidal wave of mud

Disponível em: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/09/world/americas/brazil-dam-collapse.html Acesso em 11 de ago. de 2020

BRUMADINHO, BRAZIL — Luiz de Castro was installing lamps at a mining complex in Brazil late last month when a loud blast split the air. He figured it was just a truck tire popping, but a friend knew better.

“No, it’s not that!” the friend said. “Run!”

Dashing up a staircase, caked in mud and pelted by flying rocks, Mr. Castro clambered to safety. But as he watched, a wall of mud unleashed by the collapse of a mining dam swallowed his co-workers, he said. Tiago, George, Icaro — they and at least 154 others, all buried alive.

1- Answer these questions in English.

a) What was Luis de Castro doing when a loud blast split the air?

b) How many people were buried alive?

2- Retire do texto:

a) Uma oração em que o verbo esteja no Past Continuous Tense.

b) Três orações em que o verbo regular esteja no Simple Past Tense.

c) Duas orações em que o verbo irregular esteja no Simple Past Tense.

d) Dois conectores com seus respectivos valores semânticos.

Let’s read the song!!

3- Match the words in column A with their meanings in column B.

4- A música “The Scientist”, da banda britânica Coldplay, fala sobre o arrependimento e o perdão.  Retire do texto versos em que o eu-lírico

a) descreve uma pessoa;

b) expressa seu desejo em voltar ao passado.

5- Identifique os tempos verbais dos verbos destacados nos versos da música “The Scientist”.

a) Nobody SAID it WAS easy

b) I WAS just GUESSING at numbers and figures