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7. From what you’ve read in the text, what seems to be the best 
attitude toward the problem mentioned in the title? Choose the 
best option and write it down in your notebook.
a. You should cancel all your social media accounts.
b. You need to change the way you look to be accepted by others.
c. You should keep comparing yourself to others to become a 
better person.
d. You don’t need to change who you are, because you are worthy 
just as you are. X
After You Read
8. Discuss the following questions in small groups. Respostas pessoais
a. Do you usually compare yourself to the images you see on
your social media feeds? If so, how do you feel about it?
b. Do you agree with the author’s view that social media 
“dictates” norms, as to what people need to do, look like 
or act like?
c. The title of the article is a question, “Does social media 
feed your feelings of unworthiness?”. In other words, “Does 
social media make you feel down?” How do you answer that 
question? What should you do about it?
d. What would you do if a friend were feeling down or unworthy?
Language Study
Modal Verbs Expressing Probability 
or Possibility
1. Read the sentences below from the text on pages 263 and 264 
and do the following activities in your notebook. 
As you might imagine, your beliefs about yourself are a mixed 
bag.
[…] this might mean that you are hiding parts of yourself 
because you fear being judged, not accepted, or both.
You may feel that you are outside of the norm in some way.
You may fi nd it diffi cult to accept and share parts of yourself that 
are out of your control […].
8. Após a atividade, escolha al-
guns estudantes e peça que re-
latem brevemente o que deba-
teram com o grupo. No Manual 
do Professor, você encontra 
uma proposta de atividade de 
extensão em parceria com um 
professor da área de Ciências 
Humanas e Sociais Aplicadas.
Language StudyLanguage Study EM13LGG403
1. Escreva duas das frases des-
ta atividade (uma utilizando a 
palavra might e outra, a palavra 
may) no quadro. Peça aos es-
tudantes que identifi quem as 
formas verbais. Sublinhe as pa-
lavras might e may e pergunte o 
que elas têm em comum. Diga 
aos estudantes que essas duas 
palavras são verbos modais. Ve-
rifi que se eles se lembram do 
que são verbos modais (caso 
não se recordem, explique-lhes 
que são verbos que antece-
dem os verbos principais para 
expressar uma ideia específi ca, 
como permissão, possibilidade, 
habilidade, etc.). Peça, então, 
que realizem as atividades.
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Let’s Practice
2. Read the following quote and choose the correct options about it. 
Write them in your notebook.
a. Choose the correct option. In the sentences on the 
previous page, the modal verbs might and may express:
• permission.
• possibility/probability.
• prohibition.
b. Choose the correct option to complete the statements 
about the modal verbs might and may.
• After the modal verbs, we use a verb in the infi nitive 
without to / Simple Past. infi nitive without to
• We need / don’t need to add an -s to the modal verb 
in the third person singular (he, she, it). don’t need
c. To form negative sentences, we add not after the modal 
verb. Rewrite the following sentence in the negative form.
• You may fi nd it diffi cult to accept aspects of yourself.
X
You may not fi nd it diffi cult to accept aspects of yourself.
a. Every day is certainly a good day.
b. Maybe not all days are good. X
c. Every day has something good in it. X
d. There is always a positive way of looking at our daily reality. X
e. We can replace “may” with “might” in that quote to express a 
weaker sense of possibility or probability. X
EARLE, A. M. "There's something good in every day." SheQuotes. Available at: 
http://shequotes.com/2015/05/11/theres-something-good-in-every-day-alice-
morse-earle-shequotes-quote-hope-attitude-positivity-life-happiness/. 
Accessed on: Jun. 1, 2020.
TIP 
Alice Morse Earle 
(1851-1911) foi uma 
historiadora e escritora 
estadunidense. Ao 
longo de sua carreira, 
buscou explicar o 
período colonial nos 
Estados Unidos por 
meio de seus livros de 
fi cção e de história.
Explique aos estudantes que 
tanto may quanto might po-
dem expressar probabilidade 
ou possibilidade, mas somente 
may exprime essas ideias de 
forma mais intensa. Quando 
queremos manifestar uma pro-
babilidade ou possibilidade mais 
remota, usamos might em lugar 
de may. If you are an average 
teen you may feel different in 
some way. In fact, you might
even feel bad about some 
aspect of your personality.
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