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A Taste of the Natural World
Here is one of the highlights of the Natural History Museum to give you a taste of nature´s
greatest treasure house.
Dinosaurs may have become extinct around 65 million years ago, but our animated display
brings them very much alive! In the dinosaur gallery, see our amazing selection of dinosaur
skeletons and gain an insight into the dinosaur´s fascinating way of life.
Life before birth, the structure of the body, brain Power and body processes are just some of
the features of the human biology exhibition – a must for everyone who has ever marvelled at
the miracle of life.
Looking down on the Museum´s exhibition of Marine invertebrates – animals without
backbones – is one of the largest, a giant squid which can reach 15 metres* in length.
The collection also includes starfish, sea urchins, sponges and octopuses.
See how many similarities you can spot between monkeys and apes, like chimpanzees and
gorillas, and the most widespread and successful species of primate – Homo sapiens –
ourselves!
The Primates exhibition covers subjects such as primate intelligence, communication, social
behaviour** and conservation.
Guaranteed to have you scratching within minutes, the Creepy crawlies exhibition focus on
arthropods, the group that includes centipedes, crabs, spiders and insects, like ants and bees.
Arthropods are fascinating, diverse and ecologically successful, with more species than all
other animals put together.
The Ecology exhibition shows how air, earth, water and the sun´s energy are critical to the
survival of living things and examines the impact of human beings on the environment.
(From a brochure published by the Natural
History Museum, London, 2005)
* Metre (GB) = meter (USA)
**Behaviour (GB) = Behavior (USA)
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Exercises
Com esta atividade de skimming os alunos devem mostrar que conseguiram entender de que
trata o texto e verificar as hipóteses que formularam, sem entrar em detalhes ou se preocupar
com as palavras desconhecidas. Sugira que prestem atenção as primeiras e ultimas orações de
cada parágrafo onde geralmente se encontram as idéias principais.
GENERAL COMPREHENSION
1
) What´s it all about?
a) Quantas mostras ou exposições do museu são destacadas no texto?
b) Quais são elas?
WORD STUDY
2
) Transparent words
a) Em textos de informação cientifica, como A Taste of the Natural World, é comum
encontrarmos muitas transparent words, palavras que em inglês tem forma e sentido
muito parecidos com os do português, o que facilita a compreensão do texto.
Identifique pelo menos trinta transparent words, sem considerar as repetições.
3
) WORD FORMATION: SUFFIXES
O conhecimento de prefixos e sufixos, de suas regras de uso e do papel que
desempenham na formação de palavras fundamental para a identificação da categoria
gramatical das palavras desconhecidas ou novas, ajudando na compreensão e na
ampliação em destaque nesses trechos:
... the Human biology exhibition...
... see our amazing selection of dinosaur skeletons...
The collection also includes…
… subjects such as primates intelligence, communication, social behaviour and
conservation.
As palavras destacadas são substantivos formados a partir de verbos + -ion ou –tion. Este
sufixo é muito comum e geralmente equivalente ao sufixo –ção, em português. Em inglês ele é
usado para formar palavras de origem latina, geralmente semelhantes às da nossa língua.
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Complete the chart with the missing words.
Verb
Select
Exhibit
Collect
Communicate
Noun
Verb
Conserv
Inform
Create
Consider
Noun
Responses
1)
a) Seis
b) Dinossauros, Biologia humana, Invertebrados marinhos, Primatas, Rastejantes-arrepiantes
(Artrópodes), Ecologia.
2)
a) Natural, history, museum, dinosaurs, extinct, animated, gallery, selection, skeletons,
structure, processes, human, biology, exhibition, marine, invertebrates, animals, metres,
collection, sponger, specie, primate, Homo sapiens, intelligence, communication, social,
conversation, guaranteed, minutes, arthropods, group, insects, ecology, energy, examines,
impact.
3)
Verb
Select
Exhibit
Collect
Communicate
Noun
Selection
Exhibition
Collection
Communication
Verb
Conserv
Inform
Create
Consider
Noun
Conservation
Information
Creation
Consideration
(Activity from “PRIME TIME – AMADEU MARQUES – EDITORA ATICA”)
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