Questões de Inglês - Listening/Speaking - Interview

Leia o texto, sobre uma atividade escolar de um adolescente estado-unidense, para responder à questão.

Fonte: Disponível em: . Acesso em 15 de abril de 2024. (Adaptado).

O textexibe uma interação, caracterizando-o como uma:

Considerando as informações relativas ao professor Mark Corkins, assinale o que for correto.

Leia a entrevista com Dermot Kincaid e relacione as perguntas abaixo com as respostas de cada parágrafo:

 

a. What is a normal day like?

b. What’s your favorite task?

c. Is your work the same every day?

d. Can you talk about your responsibilities?

 

Dermot Kincaid

Age: 21 Job: Secretary      Nationality: Irish

1_________________________________?

I am in charge of the day-to-day running of the office. I am responsible for keeping my boss’s appointment diary up to date. I answer the phone and deal with enquiries from our customers.

2_________________________________?

In the morning I open, sort, and distribute the mail. During the day I type letters and answer the phone. I also send and receive emails and faxes. I take care of the filing and I keep records of expenditure such as travel or purchases. At the end of the day I prepare the outgoing mail.

3_________________________________?

Not really. We get a lot of visitors and I enjoy meeting new people. I go and meet them at reception, tell them about the company, and look after them.

4_________________________________?

I really like arranging business trips for my colleagues. I enjoy finding the flights, booking the hotels, and getting information about the places.

 

A correspondência correta entre pergunta e resposta é:

Interview with Tracy Chevalier — author of Girl with a Pearl Earring

 

— What inspired you to write about the girl in Vermeer’s painting?

 

  — I have had a copy of that painting for a long time. I love it because it is so beautiful and mysterious. The expression on the girl’s face is ambiguous — sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometimes innocent, sometimes seductive. I was always curious about what she was thinking, and one day I thought there must be a story behind her look, but we don’t know who the model for the painting was, so I realized I would have to make up the story myself.

 

— Why did you make the girl a servant? Did Griet really exist?

 

  — In the painting the girl’s clothes are very plain compared to other women’s Vermeer painted, and yet the pearl is clearly luxurious. I was fascinated by that contrast, and it seemed clear to me that the pearl was not hers. However, I also felt she knew Vermeer well, as her gaze is very direct and knowing. So I thought, who would be close to him but not related? And I thought of a servant. Griet did not exist. We don’t know who the girl in the painting is, nor any of the other models for Vermeer’s works.

 

— Why do you think there is such a big interest in Vermeer these days? Why do people like his paintings so much?

 

  — I think people like Vermeer because he reflects our everyday lives, yet makes them more beautiful and more ideal. He paints a whole world in a little corner of a room. The paintings are beautiful and simple and yet complicated too, with lingering depths and understated meanings. They are very calm paintings, and you’re forced to slow down when you look at them. In this noisy, frenetic world, that tranquility can be quite seductive.

Internet: <www.tchevalier.com> (adapted).

 

Judge the item that follow according to the text above.

Griet was the name of one of Vermeer’s daughters.

Text 1

ZOOM FATIGUE

1 For many of us who are still working we are waking up to a calendar filled with Zoom meetings. Not only are we packing in more Zoom meetings than we probably would in a normal office setting, but it has made us all fatigued. Why are Zoom meetings so exhausting? Shouldn‘t it be less of an effort than in person meeting?

 

2 We are already exhausted from the upheaval in our lives from the pandemic and while connecting over video chat seems like a way to relieve the isolating aspect of working from home there‘s actually a disconnect happening. In an interview with BBC, Gianpiero Petriglieri explained that being on a video call requires more focus than a face-to-face chat. "Video chats mean we need to work harder to process non-verbal cues like facial expressions, the tone and pitch of the voice, and body language; paying more attention to these consumes a lot of energy".

 

3 In a face to face meeting we are able to read the room and then adjust our own behaviors accordingly. So you can imagine our brains are operating on overload trying to figure out how to read 50+ "virtual rooms" at the same time while figuring out whether to stare into the persons eyes or their baby succulent in the top left corner of the screen.

 

4 An initially scheduled 30-minute Zoom meeting can turn into an hour + meeting because of things such as poor wi-fi, frozen screens and software crashes. In the beginning of quarantine, Zoom and many other conferencing platforms were actually crashing several times a day.

 

6 Our homes have now become our work spaces and our work spaces our homes. Zoom has blurred that balance even more because we are using the platform for work and social purposes. While virtually connecting with friends and family is a great thing, it can be overwhelming after a full work day of doing so. Ask yourself the question, "could this Zoom meeting have been an e-mail?" If the answer is yes try to suggest communicating over e-mail or even just a regular phone call so you don‘t have to worry about what you or background setting look like.

Disponível em: https://www.forbes.com/sites/yolarobert1/2020/04/30/heres-why-youre-feeling-zoom-fatigue/#3233932a2ac6 (Adaptado). Acesso em: 05 jul. 2020. Photo bay: Margaux Quayle Cannon. In:https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/how-to-conduct-yourself-on-zoom-meeting71092/.

According to the text,

Text 1

ZOOM FATIGUE

1 For many of us who are still working we are waking up to a calendar filled with Zoom meetings. Not only are we packing in more Zoom meetings than we probably would in a normal office setting, but it has made us all fatigued. Why are Zoom meetings so exhausting? Shouldn‘t it be less of an effort than in person meeting?

 

2 We are already exhausted from the upheaval in our lives from the pandemic and while connecting over video chat seems like a way to relieve the isolating aspect of working from home there‘s actually a disconnect happening. In an interview with BBC, Gianpiero Petriglieri explained that being on a video call requires more focus than a face-to-face chat. "Video chats mean we need to work harder to process non-verbal cues like facial expressions, the tone and pitch of the voice, and body language; paying more attention to these consumes a lot of energy".

 

3 In a face to face meeting we are able to read the room and then adjust our own behaviors accordingly. So you can imagine our brains are operating on overload trying to figure out how to read 50+ "virtual rooms" at the same time while figuring out whether to stare into the persons eyes or their baby succulent in the top left corner of the screen.

 

4 An initially scheduled 30-minute Zoom meeting can turn into an hour + meeting because of things such as poor wi-fi, frozen screens and software crashes. In the beginning of quarantine, Zoom and many other conferencing platforms were actually crashing several times a day.

 

6 Our homes have now become our work spaces and our work spaces our homes. Zoom has blurred that balance even more because we are using the platform for work and social purposes. While virtually connecting with friends and family is a great thing, it can be overwhelming after a full work day of doing so. Ask yourself the question, "could this Zoom meeting have been an e-mail?" If the answer is yes try to suggest communicating over e-mail or even just a regular phone call so you don‘t have to worry about what you or background setting look like.

Disponível em: https://www.forbes.com/sites/yolarobert1/2020/04/30/heres-why-youre-feeling-zoom-fatigue/#3233932a2ac6 (Adaptado). Acesso em: 05 jul. 2020. Photo bay: Margaux Quayle Cannon. In:https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/how-to-conduct-yourself-on-zoom-meeting71092/.

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