“Be going to” ou “Will” – Como expressar ações no futuro em Inglês

(Mackenzie SP/2018)    

https://www.peruforless.com/blog/cultural-vibes-mafalda-the-comic-strip-character-fromargentina/%5B/caption%5D

Considering the dialogues in this strip, mainly in the first and second boxes, the use of will and going to to express future can be explained by:

(UEG GO/2018)    

Predictions for the future of ‘smart’ education

Posted by Charley Rogers – January 22, 2018

A wave of new technology has been introduced into schools up and down the country changing the way teachers deliver lessons and how students learn.

A research by Randstad Education found schools and colleges have adopted the latest tech to improve teaching and make lessons more interactive and engaging. Some of the innovations already in use include ‘gamifying’ lessons by incorporating game-like rules and tasks to increase motivation. For example, Shireland Academy in the West Midlands included Minecraft on its curriculum.

Education, the research found, will become more project-based and include more interactive content to keep up with students’ changing attitudes towards traditional media. Classrooms, it is predicted, will join the Internet of Things – a network of devices like smartwatches that connect and share data with other items and systems – and create ‘smart schools’ where the teachers, students and devices become more connected.

Pressure on teachers – 75% find their workload unmanageable – as well as rising student numbers means technology will play a larger role performing tasks to save time. Teachers are also reaping the rewards as lessons and assessments move out of the classroom and onto platforms that make it easier for them to chart progress and achieve a better work-life balance. Education experts have highlighted the importance of new techniques that help teachers do their jobs.

However, while tech will become more commonplace in the classroom, it is expected to compliment teachers and not replace them. It´s important to understand that teaching tools have come a long way since the days when teachers used to write on chalkboards and present using an overhead projector.

The research says that students today benefit from some of the most exciting technology available to schools, but it’s not just the pupils who benefit from these innovations through invigorating lessons and virtual learning. Teachers are also reaping the rewards as lessons and assessments move out of the classroom and onto platforms that make it easier for them to chart progress and achieve a better work-life balance.

Technology has arrived and the teachers and classrooms of tomorrow are here today.

Disponível em: <https://edtechnolo-
gy.co.uk/Article/predictions-for-the
-future-of-education>. Acesso em:
19 set. 2018. (Adaptado).

Analisando os aspectos linguísticos e estruturais do texto, constata-se que

(IME RJ/2015) 

“I have a dream that one day, on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners _________________ sit down together at the table of brotherhood.” (Martin Luther King)

(UNCISAL AL/2013)    

I tweet, I pin, I do 

I asked my girlfriend to marry me on a boat on the wide expanse of Lake George. There was no iPhone to capture the moment, no Twitter to tweet or Facebook to share, and, back at our campsite, no AT&T service to call home with the news. There were only s’mores. And champagne.

For the two of us, it was nice. But I’ll tell ya, future marrieds: the lull couldn’t last. Within minutes, we were in my Jeep, driving 10 miles out of the woods, where we sat on the shoulder of a road trying, to no avail, to make the engagement “Facebook official.” (Turns out you can’t update your relationship status from the iPhone app. A Facebook spokesperson says the company plans on adding this feature in the future.) Lacking the digital evidence, we wondered, had it even happened?

With five weeks behind us and still a year out from the date, the engagement is as real as the ring. Our wedding now has a hashtag, a website in the works, and a growing list of potential vendors we’ve found online. Yelp is our beacon. Facebook our guide. (No surprise: in my day job I’m head of social media at Newsweek and The Daily Beast, managing accounts and watching for news.) My fiancee has grown particularly fond of Pinterest, the photo-sharing network used by a whopping 19 percent of women on the Internet, per one recent Pew study. To my eyes, weddings are the central reason it exists. “Pinterest is a tool people use to find inspiration for the important things they want to do in their life,” a spokesperson explained to me. “Planning a wedding is a great example.” This past July, Pinterest doubled down, creating a separate category for weddings. The same month Facebook ̶ its users aging into love and marriage ̶ introduced a feature displaying special events, starting with engagements and weddings, alongside friends’ birthdays when you log in. (Babies are there, too.)

Disponível em
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/14/ (adaptado)

Qual dos tempos verbais abaixo não é encontrado no texto?

(UEPB/2010)    

Building Ectopia

Although most cities seem to form by accident, for thousands of years, some of them have been designed. Whether for defense, beauty or practicality, urban designers have imposed their ideas of what a city should be about. […] Masdar, which means “the source”, is a 1,500 acre project including housing, commercial and manufacturing space for eco-friendly products and a university. […] The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) will be dedicated to renewable energy. […] The city will also have a 10MW photo-voltaic farm. By 2010 Masdar will be able to accommodate 2,000 people but ultimately it will be home to 50,000.Most of the city’s electricity will come through solar power. Renewables will also support a desalination plant that will provide fresh water. Creating the city is a feat of integration […] requiring a fusion of technologies, systems and policies. Finding ways of using less energy and water has been a crucial part of the planning. Through a smart metering system, at any given moment a citizen of Masdar will be aware of how much energy, water and carbon he or she is consuming compared with the average citizen. There is, though, more to this picture of ectopia than meets the eye. A huge degree of central planning, control and even restrictions on individual freedoms is needed to make Masdar work. […] Cars will not be permitted (the city provides electric pods to transport people and goods), and starting a business is not straightforward .Commercial activities will be restricted to those that “add value” to the city. To keep Masdar carbon-neutral, businesses that use lots of hydrocarbons will not be welcome. […] Will such a paternalistic city work well? Social factors are crucial in getting cities to hum. Masdar’s advertising states that “one day, all cities will be built like this.” This is not the case. For one thing, Masdar is experimental and a work in progress. What emerges will not necessarily translate well elsewhere.

(by Natasha Loder, From The World in 2009)

The frequent use of the modal auxiliary “will” in TEXT indicates

(UFAC/2010)    

INVENTING THE FUTURE

¹Imagine a computer that will recognize faces of people and help you to remember their ²names, or a smart car that will wake up the driver when he is falling asleep at the wheel. ³Scientists and engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab believe ⁴all this and more will soon be possible. Projects like smart cars, smart houses, wearable ⁵computers and virtual pet dogs may contain the seeds of future innovations that will make life ⁶safer, easier, healthier or simply more fun. Scientists and engineers are literally inventing the ⁷future.

⁸A car that will alert drivers to potential problems or wake up the driver if he is getting ⁹sleepy seems like a futuristic fantasy, but the scientists and engineers at the MIT Media Lab are ¹⁰working to make this dream a reality. A computer in the car will recognize impending signs of ¹¹trouble and help prevent accidents.

¹²Computers in your shoes, clothing or eyeglasses may seem like science fiction, but on the ¹³MIT campus it is already happening. In fact, MIT students wear computer all the time. One day ¹⁴soon, you will put on your computer instead of working at a desk. In some visions of the future, ¹⁵keyboards and the passive boxes that house the microprocessor will completely disappear. ¹⁶Computers in the future will also be quite different in brain power and applications from what ¹⁷we use today. You will probably talk to your future computer and it may even remind you of ¹⁸appointments and assignments or the names and faces of people you meet.

¹⁹The MIT Media Lab is a dream factory where scientists and engineers play with ²⁰technology. The lab explorers such concepts as virtual reality, artificial intelligence, ²¹communications and other computer applications, from education to entertainment. The ²²activities of the MIT visionary pioneers of the digital revolution are part of an integrated ²³approach to technology. Some of their research projects may seem quite extraordinary, but they ²⁴basically require just the creativity of the most powerful thinking machine on Earth: the human ²⁵brain.

Adapted from Science American Frontiers.

http://www.pbs.org /safarchive/4_class. Accessed August, 2009.

The text is full of grammatical elements that compose its structure to offer a plain reading comprehension. Based on this idea and in the text I, judge the CORRECT following statements:

(UFRR/2010)    

Mary: “I am about to fall asleep. I need to wake up!

Clare: “I ________you some coffee.”

(FMTM MG/2003)     

Escolha a alternativa que completa, correta e adequadamente, os espaços em branco da história em quadrinhos.

(UNISC RS/2002)      

Texto II 

What causes memory loss?

There are hundreds of potential causes including stress, alcoholism, lack of slee p, medications like antirejection drugs taken by transplant patients. Also nutritional deficiencies, seizure disorders, thyroid and kidney disease. I think we¹ should treat memory loss as a symptom.

Lots of young professionals are patients of mine² and some have diseases and others have stress that they can’t manage. Our job is to try to figure out whether the memory loss is due to a disease.

How do you pinpoint the cause?

It shouldn’t be haphazard but targeted. We have patterns to follow, a list of potential culprits and tests to rule out things. In most industrial nations, over 65 percent of memory impairment is due to Alzheimer’s disease. The key to Alzheimer’s is early detection, which³ is difficult because nerve cells must be depleted by 80 percent before symptoms occur.

And no matter what you do, those cells aren’t going to Resuscitate⁵. So we are looking for biological markers – a blood test or X-ray that will predict who is about to get the disease so we can act before the symptoms develop.

What can be done now for Alzheimer’s?

All the drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration for Alzheimer’s boost the level of acetylcholine, which is one of the key neurotransmitters and is especially important for memory circuits. We have known for 30 years that acetylcholine levels decline in almost all Alzheimer’s patients. These drugs palliate the problem, but They⁴ will not prevent the disease’s eventual progression. The hot topic right now is MCI – minimum cognitive impairment, which occurs before full-blown Alzheimer’s.

Our goal is to delay Alzheimer’s by five years which would totally change the person’s quality of life. An Alzheimer’s vaccine study is now underway and if it works in humans, it would be great.

For information, Alzheimer’s Association, 305-891-6228 in Miami-Dade; 954-726-0002 in Broward. by Patty Shillington

“Those cells aren’t going to resuscitate” (ref.5).Em que opção a partícula “going to” não está sendo usada com o mesmo sentido do texto:

(UFPB/1997)     

Angels are part of the religious tradition of Jews, Muslims and Christians. The word angel appears nearly 300 times in the Bible, from the Cherubim who guards Eden to the angel who attests to the Apocalypse. But it was not until the Middle Ages that scholars listed most of our beliefs about angels. According to Saint Augustine, every visible thing in this world is under the charge of an angel that, as Thomas Aquinas states, is pure intellect, neither male nor female.

(Adapted from LIFE, December, 1995)

Read this sentence:

Angels make you feel good.

The SIMPLE PAST TENSE and the FUTURE of this sentence are respectively: