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Name: ____________________________________________ Date: ___/___/___
TEXT: POVERTY AFFECTS THE LIVES OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
1. Look at the picture and answer the questions below:
a) Do you like football? Why?
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b) Can you recognize the football players in the picture? Who are they?
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c) What do you know about them?
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2. What is the main idea of the text? Try to find and indicating the lines where you can find evidences to support your answer.
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3. Providing specific information from the text, answer these questions:
a) What is the quantity of people in the world living in absolute poverty?
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b) In what line appears the name of the football players in the photo?
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c) What is the name of the campaign that they are supporting?
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d) What is the objective of Educational programmes?
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e) What is the meaning of UNDP?
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4. Find in the text five cognates words, indicate the lines they appear and give their meaning:
Line: ______ Cognate Word: __________________ Meaning: _____________________________
Line: ______ Cognate Word: __________________ Meaning: _____________________________
Line: ______ Cognate Word: __________________ Meaning: _____________________________
Line: ______ Cognate Word: __________________ Meaning: _____________________________
Line: ______ Cognate Word: __________________ Meaning: _____________________________
5. Find in the text five typographic clues, indicate the lines they appear and give their classification:
Line: ____ Typographic Clue: ____________________ Classification: _______________________
Line: ____ Typographic Clue: ____________________ Classification: _______________________
Line: ____ Typographic Clue: ____________________ Classification: _______________________
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6. Find in the text five words formed with different prefixes and suffixes, including suffixes –ing and –ed.
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7. Enjoy yourself!!
Hidden in the chart bellow there are six words from the text. Try to find them.
8. Match the words in column A according to their sequences in column B:
Column A
Column B
(1) Free
( ) Training
(2) Educational
( ) Poverty
(3) Teams to End
( ) World
(4) Kosovo and
( ) Programmes
(5) Vocational
( ) Albania
9. Do you think that poverty has solution in our world? Why?
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10. Do you know any Educational programme or participate in?
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11. What is your opinion about famous people who participate in commercial to promote campaign to help people?
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12. Have you done anything to brighten up the poverty in your country?
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Material de Leitura elaborado pela aluna Susan W. Campelo, sob supervisão da Professora Marta.
Fonte: Newsweek – June 20, 2005.
Universidade Federal do Amazonas
Instituto de Ciências Humanas e Letras
Departamento de Línguas e Literaturas Estrangeiras
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