English for Specific Purpose - Text and Exercises

1. Ringtones are often short tunes, and the word is specially used to refer to the different sounds mobile
phones/ cell phones make when they ring. Now you can request all your favourite songs to be converted
into a mobile ringtone! You can have your ringtone delivered automatically to your phone in less than a
minute. Although mobile phones come with a variety of different ringtones, nowadays it is very popular to
get other ringtones for your phone, especially tunes from pop songs and themes from television programs.
These can be downloaded from the Internet or ordered over the phone
for a small charge. A ringtone maker allows a user to take a song from
their music collection, pick the part that they like and send the file to
their mobile phone. Have you ever thought about changing the
ringtones in your cell phone? If not, now is the time to start! Don’t wait
to get bored of your ringtone – change it now! Customize your mobile
phone with cool ringtones.
Vocabulary: Charge: taxa - Cool: bacanas - Customize: personalizar - Deliver: entrega - Downloaded: baixado -
File: arquivo - Get bored: ficar chateado - Maker: fabricante, criador - Nowadays: hoje em dia - Pick: escolha -
Request: pedido - Tune: música, melodia
Text Comprehension
1 – Retire do texto o que se pede:
a) As palavras cognatas:
b) As palavras chave:
c) As marcas tipográficas:
2 – O que define o termo “Ringtone”.
3 – Quanto tempo leva para os ringtones serem entregados direto no seu celular?
4 – Como os ringtones podem ser baixados?
5 – O que um criador de ringtones permite fazer?
6 – E quem ainda não possui um ringtone bacana, o que deve fazer?
7 – Qual é o assunto do texto?
8 – Qual é a ideia principal do texto?