A future for elephants and A Healthy Heart
Orientações do Professor: Acessar o blog angelagrattoniblogspot.com
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Quantidade de aulas: 02
Conteúdo: Reading Comprehension
Habilidade: Associar vocábulos e expressões a
linguagem na Linguagem Científica.
A future for
elephants? 
The World Wildlife
Fund is an international organization for the protection of animals and
conservation of life in the natural world. Since 1961, the World Wildlife Fund
has saved lots of animals and birds from extinction. It has given more than 40
million dollars to conservation projects around the world. It has created or
supported 260 National Parks on five continents. But there is still much more
work to do.
Elephants, for example: Do they have a future? Nobody knows how many elephants there are in Africa or Asia today. For a long time dishonest people have been killing elephants illegally, especially for ivory*. Those animals may soon be in danger of extinction. Just think: the zoo may be the only place where it will be possible to see an elephant!
Elephants, for example: Do they have a future? Nobody knows how many elephants there are in Africa or Asia today. For a long time dishonest people have been killing elephants illegally, especially for ivory*. Those animals may soon be in danger of extinction. Just think: the zoo may be the only place where it will be possible to see an elephant!
*ivory: marfim.
1. Qual a finalidade do Fundo Mundial da Fauna e Flora (WWF)?
2. A atuação desse Fundo pode ser considerada como encerrada?
3. Quantos elefantes há atualmente? Qual a razão para isso?
4. O que poderá acontecer aos elefantes num futuro próximo?
A HEALTHY HEART
Smaller
than your fist, your muscular heart just goes on and on. It will beat more than
60 times a minute for 70 years or more. That’s something that most of us take
for granted. But it’s an amazing fact.
Sixty
times a minute for 60 minutes is 3,600 times. What physical thing can most of
us do 3,600 times in one hour? Blink? Maybe. Tap our fingers on the desk? Nope.
Jump up and down? Certainly not! But our heart keeps beating, hour after hour.
Every day, it pumps almost 2,000 gallons of blood through our blood vessels. It
takes you about five years to drink 2,000 gallons of water.
And,
unlike your knees or your back, your heart does all this work without ever
complaining! You never know that it’s even there. Your heart is such a reliable
“silent partner” that people forget to care for it. For many, the first
indication that their heart isn’t functioning properly is a fatal heart attack!
Over 650,000 Americans die annually of some kind of heart disease. Cancer kills
560,000, stroke kills 143,000, and accidents kill 118,000 Americans annually.
Like
accidental deaths, many heart disease-related deaths can be avoided if people
simply follow the advice of the experts. Unfortunately, most people seem to
listen to a little voice in their head that says, “It won’t happen to me.” So
these people keep on smoking and drinking. They continue to eat too much meat.
And their only “exercise” is getting off the sofa to get something out of the
refrigerator.
1. Quantas vezes um
coração bate por minuto?
2. Quantas pessoas
morrem de coração na América?
3. Como podemos evitar
essa doença?
4. O que é prejudicial
ao coração?
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