Present Continuous – interpretação de texto

Você já sabe que trabalhar interpretação de textos é importante não só para praticar a habilidade da leitura em si.

Além disso, a habilidade de compreender um texto tem diversos desdobramentos, como o aprendizado de novos vocabulários, a chance de ver as estruturas da linguagem em uso e poder compreendê-las, enfim…

Hoje, vamos trabalhar a interpretação de textos no present continuous falando sobre carreiras após a aposentadoria.

A humanidade, como um todo, vive cada vez mais e com saúde. Se você comparar uma pessoa de sessenta anos nos dias atuais com alguém que tinha sessenta anos há algumas décadas, você vai constatar que os sessentões e as sessentinhas de hoje são muito mais ativos e joviais do que antigamente.

Assim, quando se alcança a aposentadoria, não se chega no fim da vida, apenas se tem a chance de começar de novo, com outra cabeça, ou simplesmente relaxar e aproveitar a vida. 

Você vai ler o texto e depois vamos fazer exercícios de compreensão e vamos responder perguntas para você praticar a sua conversação. Vamos começar? 

Present Continuous reading piece:

interpretação de texto no present continuous

Judy Perlman, from Chicago, is starting a new career — making dolls. She sells most of them before Christmas, at holiday fairs all over Illinois. “I’m having more fun than ever before. I’m traveling in my new job and I’m meeting new people. Right now I’m preparing for my next show. I’m not earning a lot of money, but I don’t care.” 

Why isn’t she worried about making money? Perlman is a retired teacher, and she’s getting a pension. Many older people are starting new careers in their retirement. Americans are living longer than ever before. The average life expectancy in the United States is seventy-six years for men and eighty-one years for women. Most people retire in their mid-sixties. 

That means that retired people can have many years ahead of them. Some people are content just relaxing. But many seniors are getting involved in interesting hobbies or second careers. If they are getting a pension or living off savings from their work years, many can afford to find rewarding work without worrying about money. 

“I’m enjoying every minute of my new career. I think this is the best time of my life,” says Perlman. Some senior citizens decide not to retire at all. Frank Babbitt, of Newark, is a carpenter, and he’s still working. He has his own business and works fifty hours a week. And he’s almost eighty-eight years old. Today healthy retirees are exploring many options, from relaxing to starting a new business or making a hobby into a new career. How do you see yourself as a retiree?

Exercícios:


Atenção: é muito mais fácil para vocês, alunos, responderem a questões de múltipla escolha – e confesso que para nós, teachers, também é muito mais fácil simplesmente montar 10 questões prontas, com respostas prontas, do que planejar questões abertas. Mas são estas questões abertas que vão te trazer maleabilidade na língua. Assim, responda a todas elas em um caderno ou bloco de notas, e depois confira a resolução sugerida nos comentários: 

1. Julgue os statements abaixo como verdadeiros ou falsos.

1. Judy Perlman is working as a teacher.
2. People are living longer these days.
3. Some people earn money from a job and get a pension at the same time
4. There aren’t many seniors starting new careers.
5. Seniors don’t enjoy having a second career.

2. Complete as frases abaixo com um destes verbos no present continuous:

retirereturnworkdiscoverstartvolunteerlivespend

1. More and more older people are working at second careers these days.
2. Many people _______________ at a younger age.
3. They _______________ time doing interesting things.
4. Some people _______________ new careers.
5. Other people _______________. They are helping others without pay.
6. People _______________ longer and healthier lives.
7. Some people _______________ new talents and abilities.
8. Some older women _______________ to work after raising a family.

3. Agora nós vamos trabalhar perguntas relacionadas ao texto e algumas relacionadas a você, para você responder livremente:

  1. Are retired people close to death?
  2. Are seniors getting more involved in new careers/hobbies or in just relaxing?
  3. Is Judy still earning money as a teacher? Why [not]?
  4. Is Judy living an interesting life making dolls? Why [not]?
  5. Is Judy working as a teacher now? What is her current career?
  1. I’m a teacher and a writer. What is your career? 
  2. Are you retired?
  3. Are you enjoying your current job?
  4. Are you starting any new hobbies or activities in your life?


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