Profª Valeria - Inglês - 8A/8B

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A atividade da semana é sobre a aula do Centro de Mídias de 06/04/2021 - Can you make predictions about tech devices?

Entrega: Até 15/04/2021.

Dúvidas e devolução: valeriasilveira@prof.educacao.sp.gov.br

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https://efape.educacao.sp.gov.br/curriculopaulista/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/EF_ES_8-ano_Curr%C3%ADculo-em-A%C3%A7%C3%A3o.pdf

Bons estudos!

CAN YOU MAKE PREDICTIONS ABOUT TECH DEVICES?

 

Leiam a página 69 da apostila – Lesson 2.

 

12 Hilariously Wrong Tech Predictions

History provides plenty of reasons to be skeptical of those who claim to have a crystal ball.

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5. "Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality in 10 years." – Alex Lewyt, president of vacuum cleaner company Lewyt Corp., in the New York Times in 1955.

6. "There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will." – Albert Einstein, 1932.

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11. "[Television] won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months.

People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night." – Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946.

12. "When the Paris Exhibition [of 1878] closes, electric light will close with it and no more will be heard of it." – Oxford professor Erasmus Wilson.

 

 GLOSSARY

skeptical:

desconfiado, descrente

the slightest:

a menor

shattered:

destruído

staring at:

olhando (fixamente)

 

Respondam:

Exercícios 4 e 5 da página 70.