Capítulo 5

Ayrton Senna
- 1960

- 1994
 He was a race car driver.

He was from São Paulo, Brazil.

He was a world champion famous race car driver..

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2) Turn over the page and, before reading the text, look at the picture,title
and source of the text. Then choose the correct item that completes each
sentence below.

a) The text is an extract from : a reference book.

b) The text is the introductory part of : a biography of Ayrton Senna.
c) Ayrton Senna died at : an early age.
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O piloto brasileiro Ayrton Senna foi um piloto profissional e

esportista famoso na época de sua morte em um acidente de
corrida em 1994. Depois de uma excelente carreira no circuito
de corridas de kart, Senna foi tricampeão da elite na série de
Fórmula 1 . Em sua breve carreira, mas espetacular, Senna
provou que ele era indiscutivelmente "o mais notável piloto de
todos os tempos", de acordo com Alan Henry no Grand Prix
Champions. Ayrton Senna da Silva , nascido em 21 de março de
1960, em São Paulo, Brasil, era uma criança desajeitada que
mais tarde foi diagnosticada com um problema de coordenação
motora. O pai de Senna, Milton da
Silva, era empresário de sucesso e proprietário de terras, mas
também era um fã de automobilismo e encorajava o fascínio de
seu filho por carros. Quando Senna tinha quatro anos, seu pai
deu a ele um kart. Quando Senna bateu seu carro, ficou
inconsciente – ele estava paralisado. Toda a família apoiava o
interesse de Senna no automobilismo e passavam os fins de
semana juntos em parques locais, onde o jovem rapaz podia
dirigir seu kart. Os pais de Senna devotaram a ele privilégios
em ser motorista como forma de estímulo para fazer com que
Senna, um estudante sem brilho, prestasse melhor atenção a
seus estudos. Felizmente para Senna, sua família era rica e
podia financiar suas corridas.
 Aos oito anos de idade, Senna estava dirigindo o carro da
família. As estrelas do automobilismo europeu Jim Clark e
Jackie Stewart eram seus heróis, assim como Emerson
Fittipaldi, um piloto brasileiro que estava emergindo
rapidamente como um talento extraordinário. Senna recebeu
um kart de 100cc de presente no seu décimo aniversário, mas
teve que treinar sozinho na pista de kart até completar 13
anos, idade mínima para competir karts no Brasil. O interesse
pelo automobilismo europeu cresceu no Brasil quando
Fittipaldi venceu o Campeonato Mundial de Fórmula 1 em
1972, e o país sediou seu primeiro Grand Prix em Interlagos
no ano seguinte.
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• The quote that is connected to the main idea of the text is :
”Racing,competing,it’s my blood. It’s part of me,it’s part of my life: I have
been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.” (”
Correr, competir, está no meu sangue. Faz parte de mim, faz parte da
minha vida : venho fazendo isso a vida toda e continuo fazendo acima de
tudo. ”)
Reading for detailed comprehension :
1) a) Ayrton Senna was born in 1960.
b) Ayrton Senna died in 1994.
c) Ayrton Senna drove the family car when he was 8.
d) Ayrton Senna drove his first go-kart when he was 4.
e) Fittipaldi won the F1 World Championship in 1972.
f) The minimum age for racing karts in Brazil is 13 .
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• 2) RESPOSTAS :
b) T ; c) T ; d) F : Senna received a 100cc kart for his tenth birthday/
Senna received a kart when he turned 10./ Senna received a go-kart
when he was 4.

e) F : Senna won the elite Formula One series three times.

3) b) A professional race car driver.
c) Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart and Emerson Fittipaldi.

d) No, he wasn’t.

e) Yes, he did.
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• WORD FORMATION
• 1)
• a) We can infer that the suffix – ful means : with; full of.
• b) We can infer that the suffix – er indicates : an occupation.
• c) The suffix – ful is usually added to nouns to form : adjectives.
• d) The suffix – er is usually added to verbs to form : nouns.
• 2) Exemplo de palavras do texto : Senna’s father, Milton da Silva was a
successful businessman and landwner. / Outros exemplos : powerful /
powerless/ useful / useless.
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• 1. The Past Simple tense is used in all sentences to talk about
completed actions and states in the past.
• 2. a) The Past Simple is often used with expressions that refer to a
specific time in the past. In the sentences, the time expressions are :
“for his tenth birthday”, “when Senna was four” , and “in 1972”.
• b) Supported and received are examples of regular verbs in the past.
Regular verbs in the Past Simple all end in ed.
• c) was/were,gave and won are examples of irregular verbs in the past.
We use was when the subject is I/he/she/it and were when the
subject is you/we/they.
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3. Find on page 92 examples of regular and
irregular verbs :
Regular verbs Irregular verbs
support – supported be – was, were
receive – received give – gave
encourage – encouraged win won
prove – proved can – could
turn – turned get – got
use – used grow – grew
have – had
spend – spent
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• Athena
• A powerful war goddess. Athena was usually depicted
with her shield or protective cloa, known as the aegis. She
was also a patron of crafts, especially pottery, weaving, and
shipbuilding, and the goddess of the city of Athens. She
inherited the wisdom of her mother, Metis, an attribute that
made her favour Odysseus, the wisest and most cunning of
the Greek heroes. In all these roles she was especially
valiued because she was always accessible,unlike many
gods who kept their distance from humans.
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• Zeus
• Zeus, son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea, was the god of the
sky and thunder. His most feared weapon was his thunderbolt,
fashioned by the Cyclopes.
• He became ruler of the gods when he led them in their defeat
of the Titans during the Cosmic War.
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5) Choose the correct items:
a) No,they weren’t.
b) Yes, it was.
c) after was/were.
d) before the subject.
6) a) negative ; b) affirmative ; c) interrogative
7) a) Was/wasn’t/was
b) Did/use/didn’t/didn’t use
c) Did/ get/didn’t/got.
8) weren’t / was / had /got /gave.
9) a) a previus element.
b) to avoid repetition.
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• 10. RESPOSTAS :
• a) According to the comic strip, we can infer that Calvin
criticizes business leaders,sports
figures,politicians,celebrities from today’s world.
• b) Hobbes, Calvin’s tiger, believes that real-life heroes are
not a great source of inspiration.
• c) The object pronoun us refers to people ( including
Calvin).
• d)The object pronoun me refers to Calvin only.
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11. Copy the table below in your notebook and replace each icon with an
appropriate pronoun to complete it.

SUBJECT I YOU HE SHE IT WE THEY

PRONOUNS

OBJECT ME YOU HIM HER IT US THEM

PRONOUNS

12.
a) us
b) me
c) them/him
d) him
e) her