TRABALHO COM TEXTOS DE DIVERSOS GÊNEROS NUMA
PERSPETIVA DO LETRAMENTO CRÍTICO
Marlene Felizardo Vieira
(Professora PDE – Assis Chateaubriand)
Teens Entertainment
WHAT DO TEENAGERS DO IN THEIR FREE TIME?
Foto: Marlene Felizardo Vieira
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Starter activities.
It’s time to
talk
1. Ask students to look at the photographs above and discuss the
questions below with a partner.
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Do you enjoy any of these pastime? Do you have any particular
hobbies? Talk about them.
1.1 Divided students in groups of
about
four, ask
them
to
discuss
the entertainment. Below there are some points to discuss as a
suggestion:
•
Influence in the people’s life.
•
Who can have entertainment.
•
Kind of known entertainment.
After discussing is important give to students opportunity to share
their ideas, so they can do that by making posters with the principal
points and expose them to whole class.
1.2 In the chart below there are some kind of activities that people do
in their free time. Ask students to mark the activities they do for fun in
their free time (you can add others).
1.3 After students have done activity number one, their will discover
and mark their classmate’s activities (what they do for fun) by
interviewing them.
1.4 Ask students to share with the classroom what they and their
classmates do for fun.
Maybe in this time it is necessary to review or to
teach the structure “What do you like to do for
fun/ to spend time/ …What do you do in your
free time” “I like … for fun.” “He/She likes …
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Activities
I
(classmate
1)
Go dancing
Watch TV
To go the
movies
Listen to the
music
To practice
sports
To play
games
To read
To go out
with friends
Go fishing
Go camping
To play
cards
Others
It’s time to
read.
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(Classmate
2)
(classmate
3)
2. Below, there are some teenager’s activities from others countries.
Things they do in their free time that were reported by their parents.
Ask students identify them. They can do that in pairs or in groups of
four.
Text 1
TEENAGERS FROM RUSSIA (27.06.2002, Population Poll)
At home
Helping the family
“Help about the house, at the mowing; in the kitchen”; “we have no
time for rest in the village”; “they do home works”; “help their
grandmother”; “he sits and plays with his younger brother, waters the
garden”.
Computer, computer games
«They more at the computer, on the net»; «play computer games».
Television
«Mainly at home – watch TV all day long».
Books
Reads classics at home»; «reads a lot».
Hanging around outdoors
"They run around in the streets"; "the majority of them are attracted by
the street life"; "life in the street shapes them"; "they hang about at
the yard gates"; "they slouch along the streets"; "most of them are in
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the streets and yards"; "they sit outdoors"; "they hang around
outdoors"; "they sit on the benches in the yard".
Idleness, laziness
They dally, they do nothing"; "they are busy doing nothing"; "they
suffer from dallying"; "they waste time lying on the sofa, watching TV";
"they futz around"; "they hang around idle"; "they kill their time";
"nothing, they just walk about having not a thing to do"; "they spend
their time idly".
Going to entertainment facilities
"They visit discos, restaurants and bars"; "cafes"; "they go to a disco";
"they have a nice time in night clubs and go to the movies"; "discos,
bars, clubs"; "club, theaters"; "cinema".
Work, earning money
They work, they are infatuated with business", “they earn for their
bread”,
"they earn pocket money – take part in promotional
campaigns".
Lack of organized free time activities
"I sympathize with our teenagers, they have no place to go to"; "their
free time is not organized"; "the poor things have no pastimes"; "they
have nothing to do"; "they have no place to go"; "they are left to their
own devices: their parents have no time, and the state doesn't want to
take care of them"; "they are abandoned by the state and by their
parents, and they do whatever they can"; "they don't know how to
spend their time well, and they lack the facilities for useful pastimes".
From: bd.english.fom.ru/report/cat/societas/sport/ed022508 55k – 11/10/2008
Text 2
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Free Time in Peru
Go to the beach, go surfing, talk on the phone, go to clubs and dance,
go hiking, go to archaeological sites, or eat guinea pigs with a wooden
seagull and a carefully crafted shoehorn.
From:wiki.answers.com/Q/What_do_teens_do_in_their_free_time_in_Peru - 41k –
12/10/2008
Text 3
In my free time I swim, go into town, text my mates, do household stuff
with my mum and dad, go on the internet, watch TV and play on my
Playstation and Gamegear!
I listen to music all the time! I have a mp3 and a CD player. In Britain,
most youths listen to punk, garage, house, rock, pop and R&B. (such as
Busted, McFly, JLo, Xtina, Beyonce, Pink, Britney, Justin Timberlake, Misteeq)
Favourite Things
Results from a survey of 5000 British 12 to 18 year-olds conducted by
UK's Bliss magazine in 2004
Favourite film
Favourite book
1 The Lord of the Rings trilogy
1 Harry Potter
2 Pirates of the Caribbean
2 The Lord of the Rings
3 Scary Movie
3 A Child Called 'It'
4 Love Actually
4 The Princess Diaries
5 Dirty Dancing
5 Holes
Favourite band
1 Busted
2 Blazin' Squad
3 Black Eyed Peas
4 Sugababes
5 Blue
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6 Big Brovaz
7 Red Hot Chili Peppers
8 The Darkness
9 Good Charlotte
10 Evanescence
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/questions/teenagediary.htm
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22k
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12/10/2008
Text
Being a Teenager is Fun in India
I'm Shilpa and I am 17 years old. In March 2005 I finished my final year
in high school, which is called 12th Standard. That's me in the tree,
when I was 15!
Being a teenager is fun in India. India is a large and wonderful country
located in South Asia.
We're city dwellers
I live with my mother, father, and my older sister in Chennai, a
metropolitan city in South India.
Like the US, India is divided into many
states. Chennai is the capital of a state
called Tamil Nadu.
What's
special
about
Chennai?
Chennai is quite large and has many public places where teenagers
hang out—shopping centers, multi-theatre complexes, coffee pubs,
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pizza parlors, bowling alleys, go-cart tracks, Internet & video game
parlors, the beach, and temples.
I'm a typical metropolitan teenager.
Teenagers in Indian villages experience a life very different from mine.
Too many interests!
Some of my interests are quiet; some are active.
Some are about keeping in touch with my friends
and some are just about me. Some are very
creative!
My favorite pastimes when I want to be alone are
listening to music, reading books, watching TV, and
writing in my journal.
When I want to be with my friends, I like "SMS-ing" (what you call
"Instant Messaging" in the United States). That's what I do from
morning to night these days!
I like chatting with my friends on the Internet, yapping away to glory on
the phone, going shopping.
When I feel like being active, I love sports. I used to play basketball and
table tennis. Now I'm learning karate. My friends and I love jogging on
the beaches.
http://googolplex.cuna.org/18592/cnote/article.php?doc_id=1840 acesso em 10/11/08
2.1 Now, the students are going to complete the chart below with the
activities teens do for fun according to their countries.
COUNTRY
Russia
ACTIVITIES
Peru
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England
India
2.2 Below, there are some pictures that show what some teens,
according to the texts, do in their free time. Ask students to take
out from the texts the appropriate phrases for each picture.
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Alberto Massashi Nakano
Assis Chateaubriand-PR
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It’s time to
search
2.3. In this activities the students are going to look for information
about Brazilian teenagers entertainment (What do Brazilian teens do
for fun?). Ask students to make a list of things teenagers generally do
in their free time. After that, they organize a chart with the similar
activities teenagers from different culture do for fun. The student can
also make a big poster to put on the board in order to show to hole
class similarity among cultures.
It’s time to
read and
talk.
3. Entertainment is planed activities that generally are payed for. It
involves rest, amusement and free formation or information (Trigo,
2003). Based on this affirmative, organize students in groups and ask
them to go back to the Text 1: “Helping the family”; “Hanging around
outdoors”; Idleness,laziness” and “Work earning money” in order to
discuss the follow issues:
•
You can consider all of teens have entertainment? Why?
•
The phrases: “they do home work”, help their
grandmother”, and “they earn for their bread” do reveal
the social class of these teens? Do they belong the same
social class? Explain.
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When you say “kill the time” What are you meaning? Do
you think who has some kind of entertainment is killing
the time? Why?
Now, each group are going to report to class what they discussed in
order to share their ideas and opinion.
a. Ask students to read the passage “Lack of organized free
time activities” again and complete the map word below
Here, students have to complete the map
word with phrases that have connection
with the phrase given
No
enterainment
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3.2 In the passage “They are abandoned by the state and by their
parents” and “”They do whatever they can”, there are politic and social
problems, ask students to describe them in the shart below.
POLITIC PROBLEM
SOCIAL PROBLEM
3.3 Ask students to discuss the follow points:
•
Who has to organize free time activities for teenagers?
•
In your city or region is there lack of organized free time
activities? Explain.
4. In the Text 3 there are some favourite things about teenagers
entertainment (result from a survey). Organize the students in
group and ask them to complete the shart below with favourite
things they and teenagers from the text have in common. They
can add others.
FAVOURITE FILM
FAVOURITE BOOK
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FAVOURITE BAND
4.1 In this exercise the students share their favorite things by making a
poster to exposing them on the classroom wall.
5. Ask students go back to the Text 4 and list the reasons from the text
that in their opinion justify the title “Being a teenagers is fun in India”
REASONS
5.1 Ask students to reflect on the phrase: “Being a teenager is Fun
in India” and discuss with a partner or partners the point below.
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Could you say the same about Brazil?
•
Give the reasons
5.2 Now it’s time to write a little!
a) If students said “yes” to the question above they are going to make
a tour brochure for a tourist agency in order to motivate teenagers
from other countries to visit or to live in Brazil by using the reasons
given.
b) If students said “no”, they are going to write note to a newspaper
advising teenagers from other countries don’t live in Brazil by using the
reasons given.
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6. Going back to the text “Being a Teenager is Fun in India” again.
Ask students to work in pairs or in group. They are going to think about
the phrase: “I’m a typical metropolitan teenager” and answer
questions below:
•
What can you infer about the word “typical”?
•
When Shilpa says that she is a typical metropolitan teenager,
what can be concluded about that?
6.1 Shilpa lists some of her interests about entertainment. There are
some quiet and same active. Ask students to complete the shart below
with them.
QUIET THINGS
ACTIVE THINGS
6.2 Ask students to list the quiet things and the active things they
usually do for fun.
QUIET THINGS
ACTIVE THINGS
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7. Ask students to list the things Shilpa does to keep in touch with her
friends.
7.1 In this activity the student are going to make a list of things they do
to keep in touch with their friends. After that, they are going to find
who among the classmates do the same things. Then, they are going to
make a shart in order to put the collected information.
8. Analyzing the things Shilpa does for fun, ask students to describe her
standard of life. After, the students are going to find among teenagers
from Russia, Peru, England, according to the texts, if some of them
have the standard of live like Shilpa.
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