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Post the legend that you have researched for your oral test.

The story of the Amazons probably originated as a variant of a tale recurrent in many cultures, that of a distant land organized oppositely from one’s own. The ascribed habitat of the Amazons necessarily became more remote as Greek geographic knowledge developed. When the Black Sea region was colonized by Greeks, it was first said to be the Amazon district, but when no Amazons were found there, it was necessary to explain what had become of them.

Traditionally, one of the labours required of the Greek hero Heracles (Hercules) was leading an expedition to obtain the girdle of Hippolyte, the queen of the Amazons, during which he was said to have conquered and expelled them from their district. Penthesilea led an army of Amazons to fight for Troy against the Greeks, but she was killed by Achilles, who later mourned her.

Ancient Greek works of art often depicted combats between Amazons and Greeks, and the confrontation between Theseus and the Amazons was a particular favourite. Theseus accompanied the Greek hero Heracles on his labor against the Amazons. But while in the land of the Amazons, Theseus fell in love with their queen Antiope, a daughter of the war-god Ares, and abducted her.

Back in Athens, Theseus married Antiope in a fairytale wedding. A while later, the couple gave birth to a son and named him Hippolytos.

Furiously, the Amazons marched against the city of Athens to avenge Theseus. Soon, they settled at the gates of the city and imprisoned the Athenians inside the Acropolis area.

Many battles were held but the Amazons were not able neither to take back their queen, nor to conquer Athens. Many of the Amazons lost their lives and were buried in the surrounding areas. Others were injured severely and had to be sent by their queen to the nearby city of Chalcis to recover.

Until one day there came the decisive battle, which took place on the Hill of the Muses.

During this battle, Antiope, who was deeply in love with her husband, betrayed the Amazons and fought on the side of the Athenians. But a terrible death awaited her. A fellow Amazon shot an arrow in Antiope's chest and Antiope fell at the feet of Theseus. Heartbroken, the Amazons buried Antiope along with the Athenians.

After four months, the battle finally came to an end and the Amazons returned to their distant homeland to mourn their dead

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a) Answer the questions related to the Legend of Alderley (extra sheet).

1. What time of year was it?
Autunumn

2. Why was the farmer riding to the market?
Because the farmer was sell his horse in the market

3. Why did the mare refuse to go on?
Because the old man appears and made the mare stop with magic.

4. What did the old man want?
He wanted to buy the horse

5. What did the farmer do?
The farmer refused the old man propose

6. Did the farmer sell the mare at the market?
No, anyone wanted buy the mare

7. What happened near Thieves Hole?
The farmer found the old man and the mare stop again.

8. Who was inside the rock?
The knights and all of them had a mare.

9. Did the farmer get enough money?
Yes, he dos

10. What happened when he left the rock?
The rock disappear and the farmer tried to find the place but after him, anyone never saw the iron gates again.

b) Which British cultural values are connected to this legend?
The British cultural values are connected tô this legend are wisdom, richness, nationalism, royalty, loyalty, ambition, greed etc

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Language Work

1. Find four passive forms in the text. Are there agents in those sentences? Why? Transform one of them introducing a passive agent.
a) Passive voice: so that embodiment in a biological substrate is seen as an accident of history rather than an inevitability of life.
b) Passive voice: Whether or not interventions have been made
c) Passive voice: The liberal humanist subject has, of course, been cogently criticized from a number of perspectives
d) Passive voice: Feminist theorists have pointed out that it has historically been constructed as a white European male

Passive agent: Whether or not interventions have been made by people

2. Are there many phrasal verbs? Select two of them and write their definitions.
Think of: a suppose
Focus on: to give most of your attention to someone or something
Point out: to tell someone a fact
Make of: to have or form an opinion about (something or someone)

3. Find words for the definitions:

a. a person who behaves arrogantly is an upstart

b. an event or fact which is not the most important one is a sideshow

c. if you say something in a convincing way, you say it cogently

d. if a person is deprived of a right (for example, of voting), she is disenfranchired

e. If you give reasons for or against something, you arguing for/against it.

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Read the excerpt of the book How we became posthuman, by N.K. Hayles (1999) and answer the questions.

1. Research on Hayles. Who is she? What does she study? Where is she from?
Nancy Katherine Hayles is from St. Louis, Missouri and is a postmodern literary critic, most notable for her contribution to the fields of literature and science, eletronic literature and american literature.

2. Summarize the four characteristics that describe the posthuman according to the author.
a) Posthuman view privilegies informational patterns over material instantiation;
b) The posthuman view considers consciousness, regarded as the seat of human identity;
c) the posthuman view thinks of the body as the original prosthesis we all learn to manipulate;
d) the posthuman view configures human being so that it can be seamlessly articulated with intelligent machine.

3. Hayles states that “there are no essential differences or absolute demarcations between bodily existence and computer simulation, cybernetic mechanism and biological organism, robot teleology and human goals.” What can you infer from this?
Can infer that humans and machines are so related that have no essential differences.

4. The author brings two example from the cinema that are connected to posthuman (in spite of the fact that posthuman is not just cyborgs). Do you know other examples? Why do you consider them “posthuman”?.
Yes, the Netflix's original series Black Mirror because that series shows the relation between humans and machines.

5. What are other possible changes to be defined as posthuman?
Other possibilities changes to be defined as posthuman are feminist theorists, economy and political changes.

6. Point out some aspects of the identity and subjectivity in a posthuman perspective compared to a liberal humanist one.
One of the posthuman perspective is consider difference between genders, black people, etc. In other hand, the liberal humanist subject in cybernetics has some affinities with these perspectives, it proceeded primarily along lines that sought to understand human being as a set of information process

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Read the text "Felipe Neto, um novo líder político brasileiro" by Tiny Goes.

2. Discuss its title. Do you agree with Goes’ opinion?
No, because Felipe Neto did what he thinks was right and that doesn't mean he is a political lider. Homofobia is a social concern and anyone can do something about it, not just political liders.

3. Using Gladwell’s classification, do you think Felipe Neto can be considered a connector, a maven or a salesman? Why?
Salesmen because he has a lot of influence over people.

4. Suppose you have to explain to someone (a foreign person, for example, who was visiting the Bienal) why people were carrying a book in which packing there were the words: “este livro é impróprio para pessoas atrasadas, retrógradas e preconceituosas”.

a) Translate it to her/him.
This book is inappropriate for antiquated, prejudice people and with conservative ideias.

b) Refer to interdiscursive and intertextual refrences
In the text we can find homophobic discurse, hate discurse etc and intertextual reference with Marvel's HQ and people's opinions about Felipe Neto's attitude.

5. Can you figure out which were the effects of Felipe’s attitude on people in general? Does Goes bring any of them?
The effects of Felipe's attitudes on people in general were mobilize everyone to get up against injustice and gives voice to the LGBTQ+ community. Yes, Goes brings how the social medias like Twitter reacted with his action.

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About text: How the Lion King gets real-life family dynamics wrong. Answer the questions.

1. What are the similarities and differences that the film brings regarding the real animals’ life? List them and comment.
Similarities: the affection Musafa shows to his son and sometimes lionesses may give birth to a single cub, which would create a relationship like Simba and Musafa's.

Differences: real lions don't rule over other creatures, the females lions are more dominant than male lions, the lions behavior in the movie looks more like a typical cat behavior.

2. Why should Lion Queen be a better title to the film?
Because the lion pride is a matriarchal society, the females are more dominant.

3. Pick up 3 examples of passive voice usage.
a) the lion cub would not have been forced to flee so young.
b) most daughters are recruited to stay with their mother's pride.
c) Lions have been killed in relation for eating voluable castle.

4. What is man doing against the real species?
The species is now limited to just 8 percent of its historical range, which once included the entire African continent. Lions are already extinct, or possibly extinct, in 29 African countries.

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1. What kind of text is this?
It's a biography text.

2. Following the trails, what can you find out

about the song?

a) Who was Linda Solomon?
He was a singer and songwriter

b) Where did he live?
He live in Ladysmith, Zululand

c) What did he do in the thirties?
Salomon recorded "Mbube" song

d) What happened to his song Mbube?
Mbube was recorded by the band, "The Wavers" and became famous when Disney released the song in the soundtrack of "The Lion King"

e) What were his last days like?
Salomon Linda's family sues Disney to share the composer of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" but the lawsuit is still pending. So, Linda died without be consider the person who create the soul of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".

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Based on the discussion of text Tipping points, answer the questions.

1. Think of a recent trend. Where and how do you think it started?
The recent trend is about Amazon and that started because Amazon is catching fire and that os a popular concerne.

2. What makes trends start?
A trend start when some subject has a lot of comments.

3. What sort of people are trendsetters? Do you know any?
People who has some influence in social media. Usually this people became famous because they influence.

4.Think about a person who can be considered a trendsetter.Write about him/her and why you chose her/him.
The Kardashians family are a trendsetter because everything they wear, use, even speaks are consider trends.

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Write an informative text on the film (producer, diretor, cast, release date etc.) using the passive voice when possible.
Índice Out is an animated comedy produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released in 2015 by Walt Disney Pictures. The film happened in the mind of a young girl named Riley (Kaitlyn Dias), where five personified emotions—Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Anger (Lewis Black), Fear (Bill Hader) and Disgust (Mindy Kaling)—try to lead her through life as she and her parents (Diane Lane and Kyle MacLachlan) after they moving from Minnesota to San Francisco.

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Answer the questions about the film Toy Story.

a) Have you watched Toy Story 4?
No, I haven't.

b) Did you like it? What is your favorite scene?
I didn't watch yeat.

c) Have you seen the other Toy Story´s films?
Yes, I watched all of them except the last one.

d) Which one did you like most?
I most like the third one because the end was so sweet and made me cry.

e) Could you summarize its story? Research on it.
The plot focuses on the toys Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and their friends when they accidentally being donated to a day care center as their owner, Andy, prepares to leave for college and the toys trying to come back home.

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Produce a creative post using the idiom: I’d rather...

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When I like the book, I'd rather read than sleep