Avaliação 8º Ano

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Read the quotes below and do exercises 1, 2 and 3.

Text 1
“Fashion is anything which is you and reflects your personality, and if you are
comfortable with what you wearing, you’ll look trendy and fashionable for sure.”

(Yami Gautam)
Available at: <www.brainyquote.com/quotes/yami_gautam_811014?src=t_fashion>. Accessed on: October 12, 2018.

Text 2
“Comfort and simplicity are two keys that I follow when it comes to fashion.”

(Fawad Khan)
Available at: <www.brainyquote.com/quotes/fawad_khan_873113?src=t_fashion>. Accessed on: October 12, 2018.

1. According to Yami Gautam (Text 1), there’s a close relationship between someone’s character and
fashion. Choose a fragment from the text that refers to this relationship.

2. What do Yami Gautam (Text 1) and Fawad Khan (Text 2) think about fashion? Compare their
views on the topic in order to choose the correct item below.

a) They both believe fashion reflects your character.

b) They agree that it is important to wear comfortable clothes.

c) They have different views when it comes to being fashionable.


3. Go back to Text 1 and focus on the context in which the words “comfortable” and “fashionable”
are used. They are both formed with the suffix -able. What can we infer about it?

a) It forms nouns.

b) It indicates manner.

c) It means “capable of being”.

Read the quote below and do exercises 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.

Text 3
“One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful
woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that
make us unique.” (Janelle Monáe)
Available at: <www.brainyquote.com/quotes/janelle_monae_494990?src=t_fashion>. Accessed on: October 12, 2018.

4. Based on the quote by Janelle Monáe, what can be inferred?

a) She is involved with the cinema industry.

b) She doesn’t see herself as a strong and beautiful woman.

c) She believes it’s important to consider the meaning of strength and beauty in women’s lives
in a new way.

5. In “things that makes us unique”, what does the pronoun us refer to? Make inferences.

6. In “to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman”, the word redefine is
formed with the prefix re-. What can we infer about the meaning of redefine?

a) It means ‘to define again’.

b) It means ‘wrong definition’.

c) It means ‘to define in a different manner’.


7. In “to empower the wonderful things”, the verb empower is formed with the prefix em-. What
can we infer about the meaning of empower?

a) It means ‘to make someone less strong or powerful’.

b) It means ‘to give someone the power to do something’.

c) It means ‘to move something very quickly and with great power in a particular direction’.

8. Go back to Text 3 and focus on the context in which the words “beautiful” and “wonderful” are
used. They are both formed with the suffix -ful. What can we infer about it?

a) It forms adjectives.

b) It indicates manner.

c) It means “without”, “lacking”.

9. What do you think about fashion?

Based on what you know about suffixes, answer this question using a word formed with a suffix (e.g.
-ful, -less, -ly).

10. In your opinion, what makes people unique?

Based on what you know about prefixes and suffixes, answer this question using a word formed with
a prefix (e.g. re-, un-, dis-) or suffix (e.g. -ful, -less, -ly).

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