UFMG 1 ETAPA 2008

TEXT 1: Safety Rules For Online Dating

1) Before you read the text:Where is the text taken from?Look at the title. Look at the picture. What is this text about?So, what kinds of vocabulary can we expect? S_____________ vs. D_______________

2) What is the objective of the author?A) to advise.B) to describe.C) to expose.D) to testify

3) Skim the text with your eyes (dont read yet).What are the main points of the text?

4) Now read the whole text fast (in 2 minutes).What is the text about?

5) Read the first paragraph.a) Are all stories about the perils of online dating true? Yes / No

b) How many cognates can you find in the first paragraph:urban legends urban = legend = alarmist =reveal =personal information personal = information = basic = precautions = strategies =

c) What motivates the stories that are not true?

d) When stories come from friends or we read about them in the newspaper, they ring true. What does this mean?

e) Is it a good idea to show personal information on the internet? Why?

Taking this into consideration, complete this sentence with a word in portuguese:There are creeps in society who __________ on people who are vulnerable.

f) There are basic precautions you can take to keep dangerous people at bay. Think about the logic of this sentence. Now complete the sentence with a word in portuguese:There are basic precautions you can take to keep dangerous people ____________________.

6) Read the second paragraph.a) What is main advice of this paragraph? Should you reveal personal information? Yes / No

b) Find the cognates:Initial = Contacts = Reveal = Identifying =

c) What is a neighbor hood ?What is a work place ?What is un safe ?

d) The author gives this advice: only use dating services that do NOT disclose personal information.

Think logically. A good dating services does not disclose personal information. True or False ?

Complete the sentence with a word in portuguese:Only use dating services that do NOT _______________ personal information.

7) Read the third paragraph.a) What is the main idea of the paragraph?

b) It is not a good idea to go hiking on a SECLUDED TRAIL or rafting downA RIVER on the first date.

Is a SECLUDED TRAIL or A RIVER a public place?

c) Look at the text:It is not a good idea to go hiking on a secluded trail or rafting downa river on the first date. INSTEAD, meet at a restaurant, coffee shop, ormall some distance away from your home.

Are the activities before the word INSTEAD good ideas or bad ideas?Are the activities after the word INSTEAD good ideas or bad ideas?

Complete the text with a word in portuguese:It is not a good idea to go hiking on a secluded trail or rafting downa river on the first date. _________________, meet at a restaurant, coffee shop, or mall some distance away from your home.

8) Read the last paragraph (2 lines only).a) What is the main idea?What does instinct mean?

b) Usually, everything CHECKS OUT and the person you meet is normal.

Think logically. If the person you meet is normal, is this good or bad?

Complete the text with a word in portuguese:Usually, everything _______________________ and the person you meet is normal.

c) Find the cognates:Instinct = Usually = Intuitive = Judgment =

NOW DO THE TEST QUESTIONS 33 TO 36

Text 2 SCAM: The Nigerian Advance Fee Scheme

1) Before you read the text:Where is the text taken from?Who were the ghostBUSTERS ?Can you guess what a scam is?Look at the title.Nigerian = Advance = Scheme = What is this text about, maybe?

2) Skim the text with your eyes (dont read yet).What are the main points of the text?What is the objective of the author?A) to warn.B) to describe.C) to suggest.D) to promise.

3) Now read the whole text fast (in 2 minutes).What is the text about?

4) Read the first paragraph.

The Nigerian Advance Fee Scam has been around for quite a while, but, despite many WARNINGS, continues to draw in many VICTIMS. In fact, the FINANCIAL CRIMES Division of the Secret Service receives approximately 100 telephone calls from VICTIMS/ potential victims and 300-500 pieces of related correspondence per day about this scam!

What is a scam?What type of crime is in discussion?

What do these words mean?Despite = apesar de however but nevertheless nonetheless and as well (as) also in addition additionally besides too so therefore because due to as a result consequently Warnings = Receives =

The scam continues to draw in many victims.

Complete the sentence with a word in portuguese:The scam continues to ________________________ many victims.

5) In the sample of a letter:What do these words mean?Confidential Business Proposal Confidential = Business = Proposal =

6) Read the first paragraph.Find the cognates:Consulted = Colleagues = Based = Commerce & Industry = Privilege = Assistance = Transfer = Sum = Accounts = Contract = Executed = Commissioned = Intentional = Fund = Suspense account =

What do you think the writer of the letter really wants?

What is he proposing in this paragraph?

The writer proposes that the money will go where?

The above sum (the money) is from an OVER-INVOICED contract.If a person is over-weight, they weigh (pesam) too much / too little.If a person is over-worked, they work too much / too little.If a person is over-paid, they are paid too much / too little.

This text is about financial crime. What is an OVER-invoiced contract?What is the opposite of OVER?What is the opposite of: OVER-invoiced = OVER-weight = OVER-worked = OVER-qualified = OVER-stimulated =

7) Read the next paragraph.What does the writer say he wants to do?

It is important to inform you that, as civil servants, we are forbidden to operate a foreign account; that is why we require your assistance.

The writer here is declaring that he and his colleagues work asa) Bankersb) Civil servantsc) Government ministersd) Criminals e) Travel agents

Where does the writer specifically say he works?

Can you think of an equivalent or similar place in Brazil?

The writer asks for a number of documents to make the transfer possible. These include...(C) Your letter-headed papers stamped and signed.

Complete the sentence with words in portuguese.The official papers of your company __________________ and ______________________.

8) Read the last paragraph.Avoid these scams like the plague! Dont let promises of large amounts of money impair your judgment.

Avoid =Judgment =Think logically and then complete the sentence with a word in portuguese. Dont let promises of large amounts of money _____ _____________ your judgment.How would you describe the proposal? Choose TWO of the adjectives below:

acceptable positive dishonest boring interesting honest funny unacceptable dangerous

NOW DO THE TEST QUESTIONS 37 TO 40