CURSO DE IDIOMAS YES!

– ENGLISH LANGUAGE REVIEW

ENDTERM REVIEW – ADVANCED 1/GET-TOGETHER

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PART 1 – DEBATING GENERAL TOPICS

Students’ Instructions:
Take some time to check, understand and formulate a concept about the questions below. The questions are addressed to all students
and the main objective of this part is a debate of general ideas. Try to base your questions on your personal knowledge of th e topic,
avoid “I DON’T KNOW” answers. Use your colleagues’ answers as a base for your own ones and contribute to their answers as well.

1. Tell me the 3 best things about you.

2. On a scale of 1-10, how strict are/were your parents?
3. Who was your worst teacher? Why?
4. Who was your favorite teacher? Why?
5. Which would you pick: being world-class attractive, a genius or famous for doing something great?
6. Who are the 3 greatest living musicians?
7. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
8. What was your favorite toy growing up?
9. Name 3 celebrities you most admire.
10. Name a celebrity you think is lame.
11. What accomplishment are you most proud of?
12. Which of your friends are you proudest of? Why?
13. What's the most beautiful place you've ever been?
14. What are your 3 favorite movies?
15. How would you describe me to your friends?
16. Which historical figure would you like to be?
17. What's the right age to get married?
18. Tell me 3 things you remember about kindergarten.
19. What paper that you've written are you most proud of?
20. What would you do if you were invisible for a day?
21. Who would you like to live like for a day?
22. If you could time travel, where would you go?
23. If you could live in any TV home, what would it be?
24. What's your favorite ice cream flavor?
25. Would you rather live for a week in the past or the future?
26. What's your most embarrassing childhood memory?
27. What's your best childhood memory?
28. What's your favorite holiday?
29. If you could eat only 3 foods for the rest of your life, what would they be?
30. If you could be a cartoon character for a week, who would you be?
31. If you could have dinner with anyone from history, who would it be?
32. What's one choice you really regret?
33. What's your favorite childhood book?
34. What's a great book you've read recently?
35. Do you feel like a leader or a follower?
36. If you could ask your pet 3 questions, what would they be?
37. What's the most courageous thing you've ever done?
38. Who would play you in a movie of your life?
39. If you could be an Olympic athlete, in what sport would you compete?
40. If you had to live in a different state, what would it be?
41. What living person, other than family members, do you most admire?
42. What has been your favorite family vacation?
43. If you could choose your own nickname, what would it be?
44. Who is the funniest person you know?
45. What's your favorite thing about one of your grandparents?
46. Tell the person to your right your favorite thing about them.
47. Do you ever talk to yourself? When and what do you say?
48. When you're having a bad day, what do you do to make yourself feel better?
49. Which TV family is most like your own?
50. What's your favorite smell in the whole world?
 PART 2 – “SEEING BOTH SIDES”

An important thing to consider when you are going into a debate (or presentation deliverance) is the fact that the people on the other
side of the table, or your audience, is going to have something to say against your position. A great way to prepare for this is, once you
have your interesting topic chosen; to list the pros and cons to be able to see both sides of the issue clearly. Get divided in two (or three)
groups according to the proposition and try to explore the subject below using the example given (plus your knowledge about the
subject).

GROUP A – You have a PRO position about the main subject;

GROUP B – You have an AGAINST position about the main subject;
GROUP C (moderator) – You must keep NEUTRAL about that situation, judging the sides impartially and providing other facts to keep
the debate alive.

Subject 1: (theintercept.com)
“Sergio Moro, while serving as a judge in a corruption case that upended Brazilian politics, took to private chats to mock the defense of
former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and direct prosecutors’ media strategy, according to newly unearthed chats from an
archive obtained by The Intercept Brasil.
The new revelations, which were published in Portuguese by The Intercept Brasil on Friday, have added fuel to a weeklong political
firestorm in Brazil. The country’s largest circulation newspaper, Folha de São Paulo, said the reporting suggests that officials “ignored the
limits of the law,” while UOL, a news website, said jurists view the revelations as “grave.” The site quoted the head of a national criminal
law association saying, “This is unthinkable in any democracy. It’s scary.”
In the newly revealed chats with a senior prosecutor — a member of the team working on the Operation Car Wash corruption case —
Moro said, “Maybe, tomorrow, you should prepare a press release” to point out inconsistencies in Lula’s arguments, adding, “The defense
already put on their little show.”
Moro’s advice was a major deviation from their previous communications strategy, but prosecutors did as he asked — further evidence of
bias and unethical collaboration between the two parties in the case that sent Lula to prison on corruption charges, making the most
popular politician in Brazil ineligible to run in the 2018 presidential election.”

Subject 2: (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/world/americas/brazil-bolsonaro-100-days.html)
“ “I wasn’t born to be president,” Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, said during a recent address at his official residence. “I was born to be
a soldier.”
The tone used by Mr. Bolsonaro, a former army captain, was lighthearted. But the message underscored how turbulent his first few
months as president have been.
In just over 100 days in office, he has used up much of his political capital, with little progress on crucial issues to show for it. Brazilians
are growing impatient.
The president, a right-wing populist, was swept into office with an expansive mandate for change by voters fed up with political
corruption, violence and the lingering effects of a deep recession.
Instead, his tenure has been roiled by culture wars, disputes among the factions that support him (the military, evangelicals and anti-
globalists) and disarray, with two ministers sacked. His party is also under investigation in connection with a possible illegal-campaign
finance scheme, and one of his sons, Flávio Bolsonaro, a senator, is under investigation for corrupt practices.
Bills that could help fix the country’s finances and overhaul the criminal justice system are languishing in Congress, where the president
has been unable to build alliances, and the economy continues to sputter.
His impulsive and pugnacious manner — which served him well on the campaign trail — has caused consternation now that he is
president. During Carnival, he caused an uproar when he posted a sexually explicit video on Twitter. Later he called on the armed forces to
commemorate the 1964 coup that started a 21-year repressive military regime.”