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A 2006 study of youth athletes in Quebec City turned up the provocative finding that young, high-level swimmers wheezed and coughed far more often than young, indoor soccer players. The swimmers, mostly 8-12 years old, reported in a questionnaire that they frequently suffered from upper and lower respiratory symptoms, lung congestion, breathing difficulties, and sneezing. More than 15 percent had asthma. To ensure that these selfreported symptoms were accurate, the scientists monitored 72 of the young swimmers and 73 of the soccer players over the course of five practices. They found that the swimmers definitely struggled with more breathing problems than the soccer players. Notably, the young swimmers’ difficulties were closely correlated to the levels of chlorine and chlorine byproducts in their pools. More chemicals meant more symptoms.

(http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/ are-indoor-pools-bad-for-your-lungs/?em)

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The 15 best young adult books you literally won’t be able to put down this year

 

[1] No matter how old you are, there’s no better way to 
relax than with a glass of wine and a good young adult 
(YA) novel. If you feel like you’ve had fun with every 
YA title out there already, think again! Several 
[5] precious books are out this year for you to get 
completely lost in. From novels that explore racism in 
America, to modern romantic books, to life-or-death
games, you literally won’t be able to stop reading 
them. 

[10]

This is my America, by Kim Johnson 
In this novel that explores racism in the American 
justice system, seventeen-year-old Tracy’s dad is an 
innocent black man on death row and her brother, a 
[15] promising athlete, are accused of killing a white girl. 
She attempts to save both of them while their Texas 
town’s racist history goes against her.

 

A song below water, by Bethany C. Morrow 
[20] Bethany C. Morrow’s story goes underwater about two 
young black mermaids – one who is forced to hide her 
singing powers and the other who fights literal demons 
from her past. It mixtures fantasy with modern issues 
relating to racism and sexism. 

[25]

They wish they were us, by Jessica Goodman  
What if you found out the person who you thought 
killed your best friend didn’t actually do it? That’s 
what Jill – who goes to an apparently perfect school on 
[30] Long Island – finds out in this thriller. She has to get to 
the end of it, even if it means risking it all. Here the 
glamour of Gossip Girl meets the murder mystery of 
Pretty Little Liars with the friendship complications, 
secrets, and lies of both.  

[35]

You should see me in a crown, by Leah Johnson  
When her financial help finishes, Liz has to find 
another way to go to her dream school, play in its 
orchestra, and become a doctor. Unfortunately, her 
[40] next best option is the school’s prom king and queen 
scholarship. She fears the spotlight, but has to do what 
is necessary. When she enters the competition, winning 
the crown might become complicated because of the 
new girl in school. 

(Adapted from https://www.cosmopolitan.com/ entertainment/ books/ g31216333/ best-young-adult-books-2020/. Access on 23 jun 2020.)

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The 15 best young adult books you literally won’t be able to put down this year

 

[1] No matter how old you are, there’s no better way to 
relax than with a glass of wine and a good young adult 
(YA) novel. If you feel like you’ve had fun with every 
YA title out there already, think again! Several 
[5] precious books are out this year for you to get 
completely lost in. From novels that explore racism in 
America, to modern romantic books, to life-or-death
games, you literally won’t be able to stop reading 
them. 

[10]

This is my America, by Kim Johnson 
In this novel that explores racism in the American 
justice system, seventeen-year-old Tracy’s dad is an 
innocent black man on death row and her brother, a 
[15] promising athlete, are accused of killing a white girl. 
She attempts to save both of them while their Texas 
town’s racist history goes against her.

 

A song below water, by Bethany C. Morrow 
[20] Bethany C. Morrow’s story goes underwater about two 
young black mermaids – one who is forced to hide her 
singing powers and the other who fights literal demons 
from her past. It mixtures fantasy with modern issues 
relating to racism and sexism. 

[25]

They wish they were us, by Jessica Goodman  
What if you found out the person who you thought 
killed your best friend didn’t actually do it? That’s 
what Jill – who goes to an apparently perfect school on 
[30] Long Island – finds out in this thriller. She has to get to 
the end of it, even if it means risking it all. Here the 
glamour of Gossip Girl meets the murder mystery of 
Pretty Little Liars with the friendship complications, 
secrets, and lies of both.  

[35]

You should see me in a crown, by Leah Johnson  
When her financial help finishes, Liz has to find 
another way to go to her dream school, play in its 
orchestra, and become a doctor. Unfortunately, her 
[40] next best option is the school’s prom king and queen 
scholarship. She fears the spotlight, but has to do what 
is necessary. When she enters the competition, winning 
the crown might become complicated because of the 
new girl in school. 

(Adapted from https://www.cosmopolitan.com/ entertainment/ books/ g31216333/ best-young-adult-books-2020/. Access on 23 jun 2020.)

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    In contemporary black popular culture, rap music has become one of the spaces where black vernacular speech is used in a manner that invites dominant mainstream culture to listen — to hear — and, to some extent, be transformed. However, one of the risks of this attempt at cultural translation is that it will trivialize black vernacular speech. When young white kids imitate this speech in ways that suggest it is the speech of those who are stupid or who are only interested in entertaining or being funny, then the subversive power of this speech is undermined.

HOOKS, B. Teaching to Transgress. New York: Routledge, 1994.

De acordo com Bell Hooks, intelectual negra estadunidense, o poder subversivo do rap consiste na possibilidade de

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After failing to learn a new language on five separate occasions, I taught myself to speak Spanish like a native in just six months by watching movies and TV shows, listening to music, and reading books and comics like Harry Potter and Garfield.
This simple, easy-to-learn technique, that even the most linguistically-challenged can master literally overnight, is used by many of the most respected and skilled polyglots and language teachers in the world, and it’s never really been laid out, explained, and demonstrated in full, point-by-point, step-by-step detail until now.

When characters in a movie or TV show are speaking the dialogue, unless it’s set in a previous period like the 1800s or something, they speak normal, everyday language. So if you wanted to learn Spanish, the type of normal everyday Spanish that native speakers use every day, aka “conversational Spanish”. . . Don’t you think that Spanish-language TV shows, movies, music, and books might be a good source to learn from. . . if only you knew how?
Not only that, but it would be fun, wouldn’t it? Far better than learning the language from some boring, dry textbook or workbook that, even worse, is teaching outdated, formal, “non-conversational” Spanish (look at the dialogue in one sometime: do people actually talk like that? No).
The basic technique is obvious: consume popular Spanish-language media and try to learn what they’re saying by looking up what you don’t understand. Sure. But the issue is twofold:
1) The problems you will inevitably run into (how do I apply what I’ve learned? how do I ensure I’m not misunderstanding the meaning and thereby learning something incorrect? where do I look things up? what if it’s not in the dictionary and Google Translate isn’t cutting it? etc.), and...
2) How do we do things as efficiently as possible? If you’re a beginner you’re going to have to sort out how to do this all on your own, how to solve any problems you might run into on your own, while probably doing many things less effectively and slower than is necessary. I’ve already learned all this stuff the hard way, I’ve made many of the mistakes you would if you went this alone, let me just save you a ton of time, trouble, and possibly money by teaching you what I already know from experience.
Has this basic technique been used for centuries by language students and teachers alike? Yes, there are records dating back to the 18th century of language teachers using popular media in the language they’re teaching to help their students learn it. I’m not claiming to have invented it. What I’ve done here is, after having used and refined the technique myself for several years, distilled it down to a system that’s easy to learn, and which is taught in a format that’s organized, easy to understand, and which takes advantage of all the latest technology, such as all the various resources available on the internet now.

Adaptado de: Andrew Tracey - author of The Telenovela Method www.amazon.com

Sobre os argumentos de Andrew Tracey, autor do livro The Telenovela Method, para exaltar seu trabalho, considere as afirmativas a seguir.

 

I. Seu livro possibilita ao leitor economizar tempo e dinheiro.
II. Sua proposta faz com que seja divertido aprender uma língua.
III. A técnica que ele ilustra no seu livro é fácil de ser aprendida.
IV. O site que acompanha o livro oferece suporte valioso ao leitor.

Assinale a alternativa correta.