Audio Book Level 1

Esta atividade foi realizada com meus alunos de nível iniciante. A tarefa consistia de cada aluno ler uma página do livro The Newspaper Chase. Além disso, os alunos teriam que gravar o áudio para que no final eles tivessem o áudio completo do livro feito com o trabalho deles.

Objetivo dessa atividade é estender o contato que os alunos têm com a língua inglesa para além da sala de aula, bem como aperfeiçoar a habilidade oral. Essa atividade também serviu para que os alunos pudessem desenvolver autonomia quanto à forma de buscar aprender a língua alvo.

Vale salientar que questões como pronúncia e entonação, por exemplo, não foram levadas em consideração, uma vez que essa atividade é justamente para que eles possam melhorar. Dessa forma todo o esforço foi válido.

Page 1 – Inara

The time is one o'clock in the morning.

The place is the Ritesville town art gallery.

A window opens and a man comes in. His name is Harry Black, and he is a thief.

It is dark in the art gallery, but Harry has a light. He looks across the room at a painting.

"There it is!" he says.

Page 2 – Sinval

Harry moves quickly across the room. He stands and looks at the painting.

"A million dollars for this?" he thinks. "I don't understand it."

But he takes a knife from his coat.

Then he takes the painting very, very slowly from its frame.

 

Page 3 – Vikelini

Harry goes back across the room to the window, but he walks into a table. There is a beautiful blue glass vase on the table. It falls on the floor and breaks into a hundred pieces.

Harry smiles. "Is that a million-dollar vase?" he thinks.

"It isn't now!"

He runs across the pieces of glass to the window.

  

Page 4 – Railton

Harry has a room in Mrs. Allen's rooming house. He goes quietly up to his room and closes the door.

Mrs. Allen and her daughter, Janey, are sleeping. They don't hear him.

In his room, Harry takes the painting from his bag. He puts it in a newspaper, then he puts the newspaper under his bed.

 

  

Page 5 – Karol

In the morning, Janey Allen is in the kitchen. She is putting old bottles into a box.

"Recycling is important," Janey thinks.

On the TV, a reporter is at the Ritesville art gallery. He is talking about the painting.

"It's a million-dollar painting," he is saying. "Here's a photo of it."

 

Page 6 – Cordeiro

Now the reporter is talking about the blue glass vase.

"It's in a hundred pieces now," he says.

Janey looks at the photo of the vase, then she asks her mother, "Do you have any old bottles?"

"No," Mrs. Allen says. "That's all, Janey. But the newspaper recycling truck is coming today."

"Of course!" Janey says. "It's Friday!"

 

 Page 7 – Alexandre

Harry isn't in his room. He is talking on his telephone to a man in Seattle. The man wants the painting, but Harry isn't happy.

"Five thousand dollars?" Harry says.

"No! It's a milliondollar painting! . . . What? . . . No, I want fifty thousand, not five! . . . What? . . . The painting? Yes, I have it, and it's OK."

 

Page 8 – Cynthia

Janey is looking for old newspapers. Early on Friday mornings, she takes them from every room in the house. Then later, the newspaper recycling truck arrives.

Janey opens Harry's door and looks into his room. She always takes his old newspapers or bottles for recycling.

"Ah!" she thinks. "There's a newspaper under

Harry's bed."

 

Page 9 – Vando

Janey puts the old newspapers into a black recycling box. She runs from the house and sees the truck.

"Wait!" she says. And she quickly gives the box to one of the men.

Harry is coming back to the house. He sees the recycling truck, and he sees Janey.

"It's Friday!" he says. "The newspaper—! Oh, no!"

 

Page 10 – Junior

Harry chases after the truck.

"Wait! Wait!" he says.

Janey watches him. "What is he doing?" she thinks.

Harry jumps into the back of the truck.

"I want my newspaper!" he says. "Where's my newspaper?"

But there are thousands of newspapers in the truck.

 

Page 11 – Wendell

Janey walks quickly from the house to the truck.

"Why is your newspaper important, Harry?" she asks.

"It's two days old."

But Harry doesn't hear her. He is thinking, "My milliondollar painting! Where is it?"

The men from the recycling truck are watching Harry, too. But now Janey is looking at Harry's shoe.

 

Page 12 – Mariana

"There's some blue glass in Harry's shoe," Janey thinks.

"Where—? Oh!"

Suddenly, she remembers the photo of the blue glass vase on the TV. She looks again at the piece of glass in Harry's shoe.

"Is it from the vase in the art gallery?" she thinks. "Is Harry Black the thief?"

 

 Page 13 – Jocineide

The men from the recycling truck are angry.

"We're going now," they are saying. "We're late."

"But I want my newspaper!" Harry says.

In the house, Janey is talking to the police on the telephone. "Maybe I'm wrong," she is saying. "But

there's blue glass in his shoe . . . What? . . . Yes, he's looking for the newspaper now."

 

Page 14 – Elaine

Two policemen arrive quickly.

"Let's look at your shoe," they say to Harry.

Harry doesn't understand. "What's wrong?" he asks.

One of the policemen takes the glass from Harry's shoe.

"This is a very expensive piece of glass," he says. "From a very expensive vase. Remember?"

Suddenly, Harry understands. "Oh, no!" he says.

 

Page 15 – Vitória

Police cars and policemen arrive. The men look in the truck for the million-dollar painting. Later, they find the right newspaper—and they find the painting.

"Good work, Janey," one of the policemen says. "And there's a reward."

"Maybe I can buy a painting with the reward!" Janey says. "I like pictures!"