Questões de Inglês

Reboot the School

SALMAN KHAN’S YOUTUBE LESSONS HAVE ALREADY MADE HIM A GEEK CELEBRITY.

NOW HE WANTS TO REINVENT HOMEWORK, BANISH CLASSROOM LECTURES—AND MAYBE SAVE EDUCATION

By Kayla Webley 

[1]   Fifth-graders at Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto, Calif., sit at their  

desks with netbooks. They're in the middle of a math lesson, listening as a teacher explains how to  

convert percentages to decimals. "If we get rid of the percent sign, we just have to move the  

decimal sign two places to the left," the instructor says. Pens scribble across notebooks.  

[5]   Eleven thousand miles away in Accra, Ghana, students at the African School for Excellence  

are studying logarithms. Their teacher is the same one firing off math tips in California–both groups  

of kids are learning by watching online videos. While the screen shows a march of equations and  

diagrams, the students never actually see the face of the lecturer. There's just a voice, deep, patient  

and unrehearsed—think NPR host crossed with Mister Rogers. His inflection rises at times to  

[10] underscore a point or when he gets really excited. "Math is not just random things to memorize and  

regurgitate on a test next week," he says. "It's the purest way of describing the universe!"  

  The voice belongs to Salman Khan, a 35-year-old hedge-fund manager turned YouTube  

professor to millions around the world. Thanks to his Khan Academy, an online repository of some  

3,250 digital lectures, he has become a celebrity to techies, educators and uncounted high  

[15] schoolers cramming for the AP biology test. His 18-minute discourse on the Krebs cycle and cell  

metabolism has been viewed more than 675,000 times.  

  But Khan isn't satisfied with being the most famous teacher ever to appear on a Web  

browser. He believes he has stumbled onto a solution to some of education's most intractable  

problems, with his video-driven teaching method at its heart. He wants to fundamentally change the  

[20] role of teachers in the classroom—and redefine the concept of homework along the way. And he  

has persuaded Bill Gates, Google's Eric Schmidt and a minor constellation of other tech billionaires  

to back this quest.  

  Education reform is notoriously difficult. K-12 schools are debating everything from teacher  

evaluations to standardized tests, with no consensus in sight. Universities, meanwhile, are  

[25] confronting massive budget cuts and new kinds of competition—as dramatized by the recent turmoil  

at the University of Virginia. Its board fired the president amid worries that UVa wasn't keeping up  

with change and embracing online education fast enough, then rehired her 16 days later after a  

backlash from students and faculty.  

  At all levels, there's plenty of skepticism about any tech-centric approach to teaching. An  

[30] estimated $65.7 billion was spent in the U.S. last year on education technology, according to  

research firm Gartner. But many educators say there is little concrete proof of its benefits.  

  Khan is already butting up against veteran teachers nervous about their roles in his brave  

new classroom. But the biggest obstacle of all may be Khan himself. For all his grassroots fandom  

and Silicon Valley cred, he's not an educator, and he's never worked with children. Are parents and  

[35] teachers ready to upend hundreds of years of precedent about how basic subjects are taught on the  

word of a guy who has spent more time analyzing financial statements than standing before a  

blackboard?  

Fonte: Time, July 9, 2012. Texto adaptado.

A palavra “actually” (linha 8) 

Reboot the School

SALMAN KHAN’S YOUTUBE LESSONS HAVE ALREADY MADE HIM A GEEK CELEBRITY.

NOW HE WANTS TO REINVENT HOMEWORK, BANISH CLASSROOM LECTURES—AND MAYBE SAVE EDUCATION

By Kayla Webley 

[1]   Fifth-graders at Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto, Calif., sit at their  

desks with netbooks. They're in the middle of a math lesson, listening as a teacher explains how to  

convert percentages to decimals. "If we get rid of the percent sign, we just have to move the  

decimal sign two places to the left," the instructor says. Pens scribble across notebooks.  

[5]   Eleven thousand miles away in Accra, Ghana, students at the African School for Excellence  

are studying logarithms. Their teacher is the same one firing off math tips in California–both groups  

of kids are learning by watching online videos. While the screen shows a march of equations and  

diagrams, the students never actually see the face of the lecturer. There's just a voice, deep, patient  

and unrehearsed—think NPR host crossed with Mister Rogers. His inflection rises at times to  

[10] underscore a point or when he gets really excited. "Math is not just random things to memorize and  

regurgitate on a test next week," he says. "It's the purest way of describing the universe!"  

  The voice belongs to Salman Khan, a 35-year-old hedge-fund manager turned YouTube  

professor to millions around the world. Thanks to his Khan Academy, an online repository of some  

3,250 digital lectures, he has become a celebrity to techies, educators and uncounted high  

[15] schoolers cramming for the AP biology test. His 18-minute discourse on the Krebs cycle and cell  

metabolism has been viewed more than 675,000 times.  

  But Khan isn't satisfied with being the most famous teacher ever to appear on a Web  

browser. He believes he has stumbled onto a solution to some of education's most intractable  

problems, with his video-driven teaching method at its heart. He wants to fundamentally change the  

[20] role of teachers in the classroom—and redefine the concept of homework along the way. And he  

has persuaded Bill Gates, Google's Eric Schmidt and a minor constellation of other tech billionaires  

to back this quest.  

  Education reform is notoriously difficult. K-12 schools are debating everything from teacher  

evaluations to standardized tests, with no consensus in sight. Universities, meanwhile, are  

[25] confronting massive budget cuts and new kinds of competition—as dramatized by the recent turmoil  

at the University of Virginia. Its board fired the president amid worries that UVa wasn't keeping up  

with change and embracing online education fast enough, then rehired her 16 days later after a  

backlash from students and faculty.  

  At all levels, there's plenty of skepticism about any tech-centric approach to teaching. An  

[30] estimated $65.7 billion was spent in the U.S. last year on education technology, according to  

research firm Gartner. But many educators say there is little concrete proof of its benefits.  

  Khan is already butting up against veteran teachers nervous about their roles in his brave  

new classroom. But the biggest obstacle of all may be Khan himself. For all his grassroots fandom  

and Silicon Valley cred, he's not an educator, and he's never worked with children. Are parents and  

[35] teachers ready to upend hundreds of years of precedent about how basic subjects are taught on the  

word of a guy who has spent more time analyzing financial statements than standing before a  

blackboard?  

Fonte: Time, July 9, 2012. Texto adaptado.

Nas frases “Their teacher is the same one firing off math tips in California […]” (linha 6) e “Its board fired the president amid worries […]” (linha 26) 

Reboot the School

SALMAN KHAN’S YOUTUBE LESSONS HAVE ALREADY MADE HIM A GEEK CELEBRITY.

NOW HE WANTS TO REINVENT HOMEWORK, BANISH CLASSROOM LECTURES—AND MAYBE SAVE EDUCATION

By Kayla Webley 

[1]   Fifth-graders at Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto, Calif., sit at their  

desks with netbooks. They're in the middle of a math lesson, listening as a teacher explains how to  

convert percentages to decimals. "If we get rid of the percent sign, we just have to move the  

decimal sign two places to the left," the instructor says. Pens scribble across notebooks.  

[5]   Eleven thousand miles away in Accra, Ghana, students at the African School for Excellence  

are studying logarithms. Their teacher is the same one firing off math tips in California–both groups  

of kids are learning by watching online videos. While the screen shows a march of equations and  

diagrams, the students never actually see the face of the lecturer. There's just a voice, deep, patient  

and unrehearsed—think NPR host crossed with Mister Rogers. His inflection rises at times to  

[10] underscore a point or when he gets really excited. "Math is not just random things to memorize and  

regurgitate on a test next week," he says. "It's the purest way of describing the universe!"  

  The voice belongs to Salman Khan, a 35-year-old hedge-fund manager turned YouTube  

professor to millions around the world. Thanks to his Khan Academy, an online repository of some  

3,250 digital lectures, he has become a celebrity to techies, educators and uncounted high  

[15] schoolers cramming for the AP biology test. His 18-minute discourse on the Krebs cycle and cell  

metabolism has been viewed more than 675,000 times.  

  But Khan isn't satisfied with being the most famous teacher ever to appear on a Web  

browser. He believes he has stumbled onto a solution to some of education's most intractable  

problems, with his video-driven teaching method at its heart. He wants to fundamentally change the  

[20] role of teachers in the classroom—and redefine the concept of homework along the way. And he  

has persuaded Bill Gates, Google's Eric Schmidt and a minor constellation of other tech billionaires  

to back this quest.  

  Education reform is notoriously difficult. K-12 schools are debating everything from teacher  

evaluations to standardized tests, with no consensus in sight. Universities, meanwhile, are  

[25] confronting massive budget cuts and new kinds of competition—as dramatized by the recent turmoil  

at the University of Virginia. Its board fired the president amid worries that UVa wasn't keeping up  

with change and embracing online education fast enough, then rehired her 16 days later after a  

backlash from students and faculty.  

  At all levels, there's plenty of skepticism about any tech-centric approach to teaching. An  

[30] estimated $65.7 billion was spent in the U.S. last year on education technology, according to  

research firm Gartner. But many educators say there is little concrete proof of its benefits.  

  Khan is already butting up against veteran teachers nervous about their roles in his brave  

new classroom. But the biggest obstacle of all may be Khan himself. For all his grassroots fandom  

and Silicon Valley cred, he's not an educator, and he's never worked with children. Are parents and  

[35] teachers ready to upend hundreds of years of precedent about how basic subjects are taught on the  

word of a guy who has spent more time analyzing financial statements than standing before a  

blackboard?  

Fonte: Time, July 9, 2012. Texto adaptado.

No contexto em que se insere, “this quest” (linha 22) refere-se 

Reboot the School

SALMAN KHAN’S YOUTUBE LESSONS HAVE ALREADY MADE HIM A GEEK CELEBRITY.

NOW HE WANTS TO REINVENT HOMEWORK, BANISH CLASSROOM LECTURES—AND MAYBE SAVE EDUCATION

By Kayla Webley 

[1]   Fifth-graders at Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto, Calif., sit at their  

desks with netbooks. They're in the middle of a math lesson, listening as a teacher explains how to  

convert percentages to decimals. "If we get rid of the percent sign, we just have to move the  

decimal sign two places to the left," the instructor says. Pens scribble across notebooks.  

[5]   Eleven thousand miles away in Accra, Ghana, students at the African School for Excellence  

are studying logarithms. Their teacher is the same one firing off math tips in California–both groups  

of kids are learning by watching online videos. While the screen shows a march of equations and  

diagrams, the students never actually see the face of the lecturer. There's just a voice, deep, patient  

and unrehearsed—think NPR host crossed with Mister Rogers. His inflection rises at times to  

[10] underscore a point or when he gets really excited. "Math is not just random things to memorize and  

regurgitate on a test next week," he says. "It's the purest way of describing the universe!"  

  The voice belongs to Salman Khan, a 35-year-old hedge-fund manager turned YouTube  

professor to millions around the world. Thanks to his Khan Academy, an online repository of some  

3,250 digital lectures, he has become a celebrity to techies, educators and uncounted high  

[15] schoolers cramming for the AP biology test. His 18-minute discourse on the Krebs cycle and cell  

metabolism has been viewed more than 675,000 times.  

  But Khan isn't satisfied with being the most famous teacher ever to appear on a Web  

browser. He believes he has stumbled onto a solution to some of education's most intractable  

problems, with his video-driven teaching method at its heart. He wants to fundamentally change the  

[20] role of teachers in the classroom—and redefine the concept of homework along the way. And he  

has persuaded Bill Gates, Google's Eric Schmidt and a minor constellation of other tech billionaires  

to back this quest.  

  Education reform is notoriously difficult. K-12 schools are debating everything from teacher  

evaluations to standardized tests, with no consensus in sight. Universities, meanwhile, are  

[25] confronting massive budget cuts and new kinds of competition—as dramatized by the recent turmoil  

at the University of Virginia. Its board fired the president amid worries that UVa wasn't keeping up  

with change and embracing online education fast enough, then rehired her 16 days later after a  

backlash from students and faculty.  

  At all levels, there's plenty of skepticism about any tech-centric approach to teaching. An  

[30] estimated $65.7 billion was spent in the U.S. last year on education technology, according to  

research firm Gartner. But many educators say there is little concrete proof of its benefits.  

  Khan is already butting up against veteran teachers nervous about their roles in his brave  

new classroom. But the biggest obstacle of all may be Khan himself. For all his grassroots fandom  

and Silicon Valley cred, he's not an educator, and he's never worked with children. Are parents and  

[35] teachers ready to upend hundreds of years of precedent about how basic subjects are taught on the  

word of a guy who has spent more time analyzing financial statements than standing before a  

blackboard?  

Fonte: Time, July 9, 2012. Texto adaptado.

A palavra “teaching”, em “video-driven teaching method” (linha 19), 

Reboot the School

SALMAN KHAN’S YOUTUBE LESSONS HAVE ALREADY MADE HIM A GEEK CELEBRITY.

NOW HE WANTS TO REINVENT HOMEWORK, BANISH CLASSROOM LECTURES—AND MAYBE SAVE EDUCATION

By Kayla Webley 

[1]   Fifth-graders at Eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto, Calif., sit at their  

desks with netbooks. They're in the middle of a math lesson, listening as a teacher explains how to  

convert percentages to decimals. "If we get rid of the percent sign, we just have to move the  

decimal sign two places to the left," the instructor says. Pens scribble across notebooks.  

[5]   Eleven thousand miles away in Accra, Ghana, students at the African School for Excellence  

are studying logarithms. Their teacher is the same one firing off math tips in California–both groups  

of kids are learning by watching online videos. While the screen shows a march of equations and  

diagrams, the students never actually see the face of the lecturer. There's just a voice, deep, patient  

and unrehearsed—think NPR host crossed with Mister Rogers. His inflection rises at times to  

[10] underscore a point or when he gets really excited. "Math is not just random things to memorize and  

regurgitate on a test next week," he says. "It's the purest way of describing the universe!"  

  The voice belongs to Salman Khan, a 35-year-old hedge-fund manager turned YouTube  

professor to millions around the world. Thanks to his Khan Academy, an online repository of some  

3,250 digital lectures, he has become a celebrity to techies, educators and uncounted high  

[15] schoolers cramming for the AP biology test. His 18-minute discourse on the Krebs cycle and cell  

metabolism has been viewed more than 675,000 times.  

  But Khan isn't satisfied with being the most famous teacher ever to appear on a Web  

browser. He believes he has stumbled onto a solution to some of education's most intractable  

problems, with his video-driven teaching method at its heart. He wants to fundamentally change the  

[20] role of teachers in the classroom—and redefine the concept of homework along the way. And he  

has persuaded Bill Gates, Google's Eric Schmidt and a minor constellation of other tech billionaires  

to back this quest.  

  Education reform is notoriously difficult. K-12 schools are debating everything from teacher  

evaluations to standardized tests, with no consensus in sight. Universities, meanwhile, are  

[25] confronting massive budget cuts and new kinds of competition—as dramatized by the recent turmoil  

at the University of Virginia. Its board fired the president amid worries that UVa wasn't keeping up  

with change and embracing online education fast enough, then rehired her 16 days later after a  

backlash from students and faculty.  

  At all levels, there's plenty of skepticism about any tech-centric approach to teaching. An  

[30] estimated $65.7 billion was spent in the U.S. last year on education technology, according to  

research firm Gartner. But many educators say there is little concrete proof of its benefits.  

  Khan is already butting up against veteran teachers nervous about their roles in his brave  

new classroom. But the biggest obstacle of all may be Khan himself. For all his grassroots fandom  

and Silicon Valley cred, he's not an educator, and he's never worked with children. Are parents and  

[35] teachers ready to upend hundreds of years of precedent about how basic subjects are taught on the  

word of a guy who has spent more time analyzing financial statements than standing before a  

blackboard?  

Fonte: Time, July 9, 2012. Texto adaptado.

Escolha a opção correta. 

 Leia o anúncio abaixo e assinale a opção que substitui corretamente a afirmação “so should your airline”. 

Fonte: The New Yorker, May 14, 2012. Texto