Inglês: Interpretação – Work, e-mail, news, bills…
It is easy to get overloaded by data at this information-loaded time
IS TECHNOLOGY dominating your life?
8 TIPS TO FIGHT INFO OVERLOAD
1. Spot the signs. Feel alone even as you communicate with people all day? That’s a signal technology is dominating your life.
2. Take baby steps. Try being inaccessible for short spurts to see what happens. The world probably won’t implode.
3. Repeat these four words: “I have a choice.” People who say, “My boss wants me to be reachable after 8 p.m.” are likely exaggerating the control others have over them.
4. Set limits. Rein in office e-mail and instant message traffic. Who truly needs 35 daily FYIs on the Henderson case?
5. Give clear instructions. Try an e-mail signature that reads “I answer e-mail at 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. If you need a quicker response, please call.”
6. Make a task list. If you’re interrupted, you’ll get back to work faster if you have one.
7. Stick to a schedule. Handle recreational Web surfing and e-mail at set times. Dipping in and out is classic self-interruption.
8. Do a reality check. After five minutes of unplanned surfing, ask yourself, “Should I really be doing this now?
(Mackenzie 2010. Por Ron Geraci, https://www.readersdigest.com)
EXERCÍCIOS – MACKENZIE 2010 (adaptado)
1. The tips given in the text apply to people:
a) Who are busy showering babies and giving instructions.
b) Who never really plan ahead of time or are inaccessible.
c) Who tends to exaggerate the amount of information they supply their VIP clients with.
d) Who will only admit getting 35 daily fYIs on the Henderson case.
e) Who want to learn how to keep from being overwhelmed.
2. Choose the alternative that contains only adjectives from the text formed by prefixes or suffixes:
a) inaccessible, reachable, recreational, unplanned.
b) interrupted, likely, daily, faster.
c) probably, quicker, really, likely.
d) exaggerating, dominating, signature, self-interruption.
e) overload, dominating, dipping, instant.
4.Na frase “People who say, ‘My boss wants me to be reachable after 8 p.m.’ are likely exaggerating the control others have over them”, a expressão sublinhada pode ser substituída, sem alteração de significado, por:
a) should exaggerate.
b) may be exaggerating.
c) must exaggerate.
d) ought to exaggerate.
e) may exaggerate.
RESPOSTAS
1.Who want to learn how to keep from being overwhelmed (que querem aprender como evitar ficar sobrecarregados). O texto apresenta dicas para quem está sobrecarregado com informações oriundas da internet, exatamente a ideia expressa no adjetivo “overwhelmed”. Resposta: e
2. Inaccessible, reachable, recreational, unplanned (inacessível, alcançável, recreacional, não planejado). No texto, essas palavras são adjetivos (no enunciado, cuidado com a palavra “only”, que signifca “somente”), formados por prefxos e sufxos. Resposta: a
3. May be exaggerating (pode estar exagerando). A expressão “are likely” indica uma probabilidade que deve ser indicada pelo verbo modal “may be”, para se adaptar ao uso do gerúndio “exaggerating”. Resposta: b
