Liceu de Caucaia - Turmas do 1 Ano - 4 Bimestre - Inglês

Liceu de Caucaia - Turmas do 1 Ano - 4 Bimestre - Inglês

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Brazilian race car driver Ayrton Senna was a famous professional race car driver and sportsman at the time of his death in a racing crash in 1994. After an outstanding career on the kart racing circuit, Senna was a three-time champion of the elite Formula One (F1) series. In his brief but spectacular career, Senna proved he was arguably "the most remarkable racing driver of all time," according to Alan Henry in Grand Prix Champions.

Born Ayrton Senna da Silva on March 21, 1960, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Senna was an awkward child who was later diagnosed with a motor-coordination problem. Senna's father, Milton da Silva, was successful businessman and landowner, but also was a motor racing fan, and encouraged his son's fascination with cars. When Senna was four, his father gave him a one-horsepower go-kart. When Senna got behind the wheel, his awkwardness disappeared—he was a natural.

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There were no signs of genius in Albert Einstein as a child. he was so late in learning to talk that his parents were worried about him, and at school he wasn't a bright boy. He was good at mathematics and weak at almost everything else. He disliked school, which he called the education machine. " stuffing young minds with facts and figures is not education," he said". "your don't need to go to school to learn these--- they can be got out of books.

TEXT 3: IS TXTING 2 MUCH BAD 4 U?

If you're losing sleep or distracted in class, the answer may be yes.

When it comes to teens and texting, many people are asking, “How much is too much?” A recent study by the Nielsen Company found that U.S kids ages 13 to 17 sent and received an average of 2,272 texts per month in the last quarter of 2008. That’s about 80 messages a day – more than double the average of 2007! Is this cause for alarm? Doctors and psychologists warn that excessive texting may be leading to a host of problems , including distractions from schoolwork, interrupted sleep, and thumb injuries caused by too much repetitive motion. 

TEXT 4: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S DISCOVERY: ELECTRICITY

Franklin did not, of course, invent electricity, but he discovered many things about it, previously not understood.

Before Franklin started his scientific experimentation, it was thought that electricity consisted of two opposing forces. Franklin showed that electricity consisted of a "common element" which he named "electric fire." Further, electricity was "fluid" like a liquid. It passed from one body to another — however it was never destroyed. In a letter to Peter Collinson, Franklin wrote that the "fire only circulates. Hence have arisen some new items among us. We say B (and other Bodies alike circumstanced) are electricised positively; A negatively; Or rather B is electricised plus and A minus ... These terms we may use till philosophers give us better."

Franklin's work became the basis for the single fluid theory. When something is being charged, such as a car battery, electricity flows from a positive body, that with an excess charge, to a negative body, that with negative charge. Indeed, a car battery has plus and minus signs on its terminals.

Franklin wrote Collinson in another letter that: "I feel a Want of Terms here and doubt much whether I shall be able to make this intelligible." Not only did Franklin have to posit theories, he also had to create a new language to fit them. Some of the electrical terms which Franklin coined during his experiments include: battery, charge, condensor, conductor, plus, minus, positively, negatively and armature. They are still the terms we use today.