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        Rebeca Andrade: Meet the athlete

 

                                                             Julia Yohe

                                    Jun. 13, 2024 5:04 pm ET

 

    Rebeca Andrade is 25-years-old and 4-foot-9. She was born May 8, 1999, in Guarulhos, Brazil. She has seven siblings, three of them — Yago, Henrique and Igor — also trained as gymnasts during their child hood.

    The athlete was raised by a single mother, Rosa Santos, who worked as a maid. So, she began the sport at age 4, but with seven siblings and a single mother, her family didn’t have much money to help with her training. Her brothers often walked her to the gym when they couldn’t afford a bus pass — a trek that took over two hours. Rebeca’s mother also would sometimes walk to work, loaning Rebeca her bus pass to get to the gym more easily. However, at age 9, she moved away from her family to a high-performance training center in Curitiba. A year later, she moved to Rio de Janeiro.

    Rebeca Andrade is one of 11 women gymnasts to medal in every event at the World Championships, and one of three in the 21st century. With her silver medal in the all-around competition at the 2023 World Championships, she joined Simone Biles (gold) and Shilese Jones (bronze) in making up the first-ever all Black all-around podium at a world championship.

    With a silver medal in the all-around at the Tokyo Olympics, Rebeca Andrade became the first Olym pic medalist for Brazil in women’s gymnastics. Three days later, she won the first Olympic gold medal for Brazil in women’s gymnastics when she finished first in the vault event final.

Source (adapted): https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/rebe ca-andrade-meet-athlete

Read the sentences I and II below and mark the INCORRECT alternative:

 

I. “The athlete was raised by a single mother, Rosa Santos, who worked as a maid”.

II. “Her brothers often walked her to the gym when they couldn’t afford a bus pass — a trek that took over two hours”.

Em 1982, John Naisbitt disse em seu livro Megatrends que "We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge".

 

A partir dessa afirmação conclui-se que a informação:

As cinco dicas abaixo são para ajudar crianças e adolescentes a não se viciarem em smartphones. Associe o título das dicas com suas descrições. Em seguida marque a sequência correta.

 

1. Create “phone-free” zones.
2. Use apps to monitor and limit your child’s phone use.
3. Encourage other interests and social activities.
4. Talk to your child about underlying issues.
5. Be a good model

 

( ) Children have a strong impulse to imitate, so it’s important you manage your own smartphone and internet use. It’s no good asking your child to unplug at the dinner table while you’re staring at your own phone or tablet. Don’t let your own smartphone use distract from parent-child interactions.

( ) There are a number of apps available that can restrict texting and web browsing to certain times of the day. Other apps can eliminate messaging capabilities while in motion, so you can prevent your teen using a smartphone while driving.

( ) Restrict the use of smartphones or tablets to a common area of the house where you can keep an eye on your child’s activity and limit time online. Ban phones from the dinner table and bedrooms and insist they’re turned off after a certain time at night.

( ) Get your child away from screens by exposing them to other hobbies and activities, such as team sports, Scouts, and after-school clubs. Spend time as a family unplugged.

( ) Compulsive smartphone use can be the sign of deeper problems. Is your child having problems fitting in? Has there been a recent major change, like a move or divorce, which is causing stress? Is your child suffering with other issues at school or home?

Fonte: Adaptado de https://www.helpguide.org/mental-health/addiction/smartphone-addiction. Acessado em 04/11/2024

Baseando-se no texto da figura abaixo, é possível afirmar que o motorista: 

Fonte: https://br.pinterest.com/pin/651403533589597692/. Acessado em 08/12/2024.

Are mobile phones harming your students’ concentration? (Part III)

3. Distraction during leisure time. The mere presence of a mobile phone can make students miss out on the full experience of a fun activity. Notifications, messages and social media alerts can easily distract them from the present moment and harm both their engagement and enjoyment.

 

This phenomenon was recently shown in a study where 304 people were asked to go out to dinner with friends or family. Half of the group were told that they’d receive a study question via text at some point during the meal, so they had to keep their phones on the table. The other half were told they’d answer the question on paper during the meal and had their phones stored away. Both groups then answered questions about their phone use and overall dining experience.

 

What they found was that participants who had their phones were 7% more distracted during the meal than those who did not have their phones. The more significant finding, however, was that the group with phones rated their dining experience as 5.4% less interesting and enjoyable than those without phones.

Fonte: https://www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/mobile-phones-concentration/ Acessado em 04/11/2024

 

Que grupo de participantes achou a experiência aplicada a eles menos interessante?

Are mobile phones harming your students’ concentration? (Part II)

 

2. Dependence on instant gratification. When students use their phones, they can receive immediate “rewards” in the form of social media notifications, messages or entertaining videos, which stimulate the release of dopamine in the brain and create a feeling of pleasure and satisfaction. This reward-seeking behaviour can become habit-forming, making it difficult for students to engage in tasks that require them to sustain their attention and delay gratification. Indeed, various studies have found that frequent phone users do experience shorter attention spans and greater impulsivity.

 

Students need prolonged attention and patience constantly in their daily life – be it for reading long texts, actively listening in class or doing their homework after school. As such, lacking these can quickly get in the way of their learning and development.

Fonte: https://www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/mobile-phones-concentration/ Acessado em 04/11/2024

 

Texto para a questão abaixo

(URCA/2025.1) As such dá a ideia de: