Como interpretar textos em Inglês: resumo com simulado Enem

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The Road Not Taken (by Robert Frost)

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Disponível em: http://www.poetryfoundation.org.
Acesso em: 29 nov. 2011 (fragmento).

Estes são os versos finais do famoso poema The Road Not Taken, do poeta americano Robert Frost. Levando-se em consideração que a vida é comumente metaforizada como uma viagem, esses versos indicam que o autor

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If You Can’t Master English, Try Globish

PARIS — It happens all the time: during an airport delay the man to the left, a Korean perhaps, starts talking to the man opposite, who might be Colombian, and soon they are chatting away in what seems to be English. But the native English speaker sitting between them cannot understand a word.

They don’t know it, but the Korean and the Colombian are speaking Globish, the latest addition to the 6,800 languages that are said to be spoken across the world. Not that its inventor, Jean-Paul Nerrière, considers it a proper language.

“It is not a language, it is a tool,” he says. “A language is the vehicle of a culture. Globish doesn’t want to be that at all. It is a means of communication.”

Nerrière doesn’t see Globish in the same light as utopian efforts such as Kosmos, Volapuk, Novial or staunch Esperanto. Nor should it be confused with barbaric Algol (for Algorithmic language). It is a sort of English lite: a means of simplifying the language and giving it rules so it can be understood by all.

BLUME, M. Disponível em: http://www.nytimes.com.
Acesso em: 28 out. 2013 (fragmento).

Considerando as ideias apresentadas no texto, o Globish (Global English) é uma variedade da língua inglesa que

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Implementar políticas adequadas de alimentação e nutrição é uma meta prioritária em vários países do mundo. A partir da campanha If you can´t read it, why eat it?, os leitores são alertados para o perigo de

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Languages and cultures use non-verbal communication which conveys meaning. Although many gestures are similar in Thai and English such as nodding for affirmation many others are not shared. A good example of this is the ubiquitous “Thai smile”. The “smile” carries a far wider range of meanings in Thai than it does in English culture. This can sometimes lead to serious communication breakdowns between Thais and English speakers.

An example from my own early experience in Thailand illustrates the point. When confronting the Thai owner of a language school with administrative problems, complaints regarding student numbers in the class were met by a beaming smile and little else. I took this to mean lack of concern or an attempt to trivialise or ignore the problem. I left the discussion upset and angry by what appeared to be the owner’s offhand attitude to my problems.

It was only later when another native speaking English teacher, with considerably more experience of Thailand, explained that a smile meant an apology and the fact that the following day all my complaints had been addressed, that I fully understood the situation.

Disponível em: http://www.spring.org.uk. Acesso em: 11 jul. 2011 (fragmento).

Viver em um país estrangeiro pode ser uma experiência enriquecedora, embora possa também ser um desafio, pelo choque cultural. A experiência relatada pelo autor do texto revela diferentes atribuições de sentido a um determinado comportamento, mostrando que naquela situação o sorriso indicava um(a)

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Tennesse Mountain Properties

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Disponível em: http://www.freerealestaeads.net. Acesso em: 30 nov. 2011 (adaptado).

Em jornais, há diversos anúncios que servem aos leitores. O conteúdo do anúncio veiculado por este texto interessará a alguém que esteja procurando

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I read a study that measured the efficiency of locomotion for various species on the planet. The condor used the least energy to move a kilometer. Humans came in with a rather unimpressive showing about a third of the way down the list … That didn’t look so good, but then someone at Scientific American had the insight to test the efficiency of locomotion for a man on a bicycle. And a man on a bicycle blew the condor away. That’s what a computer is to me: the computer is the most remarkable tool that we’ve ever come up with. It’s the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

JOBS, S. Disponível em: http://www.msnbc.msn.com. Acesso em: 28 fev. 2012 (adaptado).

Ao abordar o deslocamento de várias espécies, com base em um estudo que leu, Steve Jobs apresenta o computador como uma ferramenta que

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Turning Brown

A four-year-old boy was eating an apple in the back seat of the car, when he asked, “Daddy, why is my apple turning brown?”

“Because,” his dad explained, “after you ate the skin off, the meat of the apple came into contact with the air, which caused it to oxidize, thus changing the molecular structure and turning it into a different color.”

There was a long silence. Then the son asked softly, “Daddy, are you talking to me?”

Disponível em: http://hayspost.com. Acesso em: 10 nov. 2011.

Considerando os participantes da conversa nessa piada, nota-se que o efeito de humor é obtido em função

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The war song

War war is stupid

And people are stupid

And love means nothing

In some strange quarters

War war is stupid

And people are stupid

And I heard them banging

On hearts and fingers

People fill the world

With narrow confidence

Like a child at birth

A man with no defense

What’s mine is my own

I won’t give it to you

No matter what you say

No matter what you do

Now we’re fighting

In our hearts

Fighting in the street

Won’t somebody help me?

Disponível em: http://letras.mus.br.
Acesso em: 29 jun. 2012.

A música é uma forma de expressão artística e cultural e pode revelar diferentes formas de compreender o mundo. Na letra da canção do grupo Culture Club, entende-se que a guerra é o resultado da

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Slow Food

Slow Food describes a movement created “to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world,” according to the movement’s website. More broadly, it involves an emphasis on local and seasonal produce and an adherence to regional cultures. Its goals also include lobbying against the use of pesticides and genetic engineering of food.

Disponível em: http://www.ecomii.com.
Acesso em: 30 set. 2011.

O objetivo do movimento Slow food é

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Disponível em: http://www.google.com.br.
Acesso em: 27 fev. 2012.

A tira, definida como um segmento de história em quadrinhos, pode transmitir uma mensagem com efeito de humor. Na tira, a presença desse efeito no diálogo entre Lucy e seu irmão Linus acontece porque