Group I – READING AND LITERARY EDUCATION

PART A

5Read the following text, extracted from a youth magazine.

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BOYS AND GIRLS

Boys prefer to jump and girls to talk, they are more

competitive and they are more relaxed. Do these statements make sense or
10Are they just preconceived ideas? We went to discover what really distinguishes them.
The complicity between Manuel Carvalho and Carolina Capela, aged 13, makes
it becomes evident as each one finishes the other's sentences during the
They have been friends for seven years. They started by bumping into each other at the gate.
school in the first year and... they hated each other. But a group of common friends made with

15que se conhecessem melhor e a amizade cresceu. Ambos têm muitos amigos de

both sexes and, when identifying differences between friendship with boys
you girls, do not hesitate: 'The girls talk more about what they are living,'
while the boys spend more time playing and teasing each other.
Manuel reveals, funnily. "They talk a lot about the future and they live more in the moment.

20"present," adds Carolina. Manuel confesses that he feels freer to do.

playing around with the boys, but at the same time, the girls are
more tolerant of accepting him as he is. If there is something important in a friendship, it is the

the ability to keep secrets and that's where girls have the advantage.
The psychologist Bruno Gomes helps to explain this difference in behavior:
25Girls find it easier to express their feelings. Therefore,
develop closer friendship relationships. The boys do not share as much the
their weaknesses with friends because they think that if they do, they are not strong.

Junior Vision, no. 148, September 2016, pages 36-37

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1. Mark with an X, from 1.1. to 1.4., the option that completes each sentence, according to
the meaning of the text you just read.

The boys are

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calm as the girls.
more competitive than girls.
reserved with the other boys.

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they quickly became friends with each other.
they did not get along with each other.
they talked about each other's friends.
they shared secrets with each other.
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1.3. For Manuel and Carolina,
the girls have many similarities with the boys.
The girls are totally different from the boys.
The girls are more dreamers.
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1.4. For the psychologist Bruno Gomes,

There are no behavioral differences between boys and girls.
The girls are stronger than the boys.
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Girls express what they feel more easily than boys.

In this text, there is a lot of talk about friendship.

60Enuncia duas qualidades que esperas encontrar num bom amigo, justificando a
your answer.
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PART B

Read the following text.

70 PEDRO ALECRIM GOES TO SCHOOL

When the bell deafens all the places, no one runs inside the
rooms. Mr. Inácio, the doorman, usually says that we look like fat animals at
butcher's path.
And it's almost true. At the beginning of the year, we rushed to the classrooms to

75to get to know the teachers. But, as time goes by, the desire
it diminishes. Each teacher has their own quirk, a special tic.
And there are colleagues of mine who spend the whole year making provocations. I remember, for

for example, the day that Luís brought a rubber mouse into the room. He placed it on top
from the table, hidden among the books. The math teacher, who had
80habit of walking around the classroom standing, going from table to table, placed a hand on the table of
Luís. And he did not waste any time: with the tip of the ballpoint pen, he pushed the rat.

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slowly... slowly. When it reached the fingers of the teacher's hand, she
let out a very strong scream and, frantic, opened the door and disappeared.
Returned shortly after, white as chalk, and dryly informed that Luís
85I had to go to the school's Executive Council.
Luís went there and, later, did not want to tell what they had told him there. In class
Next, very seriously, he apologized to the teacher and explained that he had passed her.
that idea in my head: I would like to see how people reacted upon seeing it.
suddenly a very innocent rubber rat...
90 I confess that in some classes I feel my heart beating faster.
There are subjects that I don't really like, and I hate getting low grades.
If I were a teacher, I would always explain the why of things, with words.
easier for everyone to understand.
If I were a teacher, I wouldn't say 'this is blue'. End of story. Or is there
95things that have no explanation?
During the breaks, the crowd at the school bar is large. The employees do not
there are hands for so many raised arms, so much shouting, so much confusion.
I rarely appear there. I stay in a corner talking to Nicolau, holding on to
bread with marmalade, cheese or butter that my mother never forgets to
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Nicholas never eats after meals. And laughs:
- Se eu comesse assim, um dia destes dava um estoiro!
We can't understand how there are colleagues with so much money in their pockets. And

Some even buy and smoke packs of tobacco in secret.

105 Sometimes no one can be in a bathroom with the smoke and the smell.
the tobacco.

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 António Mota, Pedro Alecrim, ASA, Alfragide, 2014, pp. 41-43.

1101-Locate the action in space, mentioning the places where the characters are.
move.
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Throughout the school year, students react differently to the touch of
115bell.
2.1-Transcribe the sequences of the 1st and 2nd paragraphs that reveal the reactions
two students at the beginning and during the school year.

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1202.2 - Explain in your own words the students' reaction to the sound of the bell.
as time goes by
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3. With the tip of the ballpoint pen, Luís "[...] pushed the mouse gently...
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What did Luís intend with his gesture?
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The teacher disapproved of Luís's attitude.
130Transcribe the passage of the text that confirms this statement.
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[...] She returned shortly after, white as chalk [...].

5.1. Indicate with the expressive resource present in the transcribed sentence.
the enumeration
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Comparison
Onomatopoeia
5.2. Explain how this expressive resource contributes to the meaning of the sentence.
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6. The narrative serves as a pretext for some reflections of the narrator on the
behavior of certain students at your school.
Do you think your reflections are suitable for today's students? Justify it.
your answer.
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Group II - GRAMMAR
Respond to the following items according to the instructions given to you.

1. When the teacher saw the rat, she jumped, screamed, and remained scared.
Complete the table with the information related to the underlined verb forms in the
above phrases
Infinitive Radical Vowel Conjugation Subclass of the verb
theme

2-Complete each of the sentences with the form of the verb presented between
180parentheses, in the indicated tense and mood.
 Simple future of the indicative

During the intervals, the influx to the bar will be large.

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Present subjunctive

Maybe Luis will not tell what they told him.

190Imperfect subjunctive

I wish you would visit that museum.

Perfect past indicative.

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Nicholas never eats after meals.

2003-Pay attention to the underlined words in the following sentences:

We run to the rooms.
There are colleagues who spend the whole year provoking.
c) He liked to see how people reacted.
The boy eats bread with marmalade.

205 3.1-Identify the class to which these words belong.

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4-Identify the interrogative determiners present in the following sentences:
What a tasteless joke!
b) Which mouse are you referring to?

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5-Analyze syntactically the following sentence:

The teacher explained her point of view to him.
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6-Rewrite the following sentences, replacing each underlined expression with the
220appropriate personal pronoun. Make only the necessary changes.
 They never take the students to that classroom.
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225Luís showed a mouse to the teacher.

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Group III-WRITTEN EXPRESSION

235If he were a teacher, Luís wouldn't say 'this is blue' and that's final. Imagine you were an object.
what students use in school: a pencil, an eraser, a pen or a notebook.
How would you be? What would you do? What would you be for?

Write your text, which should contain between 140 and 200 words, in the first person.
If I were...
240 Divide o texto em três partes bem estruturadas (introdução, desenvolvimento e
conclusion)
Atribui um título ao texto.

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275 Good job!
Your teacher: Marina Garcia Cardoso