Teste seu inglês com a mensagem polêmica do filho de Donald Trump

Uma das melhores técnicas para estudar inglês é ler notícias em jornais estrangeiros. Além de se manter atualizado, você tem a oportunidade de assimilar vocabulário variado, buscando expressões, phrasal verbs, jargões e estruturas gramaticais relevantes para uma boa comunicação.

A notícia do momento são os e-mails que o filho de Donald Trump trocou com uma advogada ligada ao governo da Rússia, divulgados pelo jornal "The New York Times".O primogênito do presidente americano negociou informações que poderiam prejudicar a rival do pai nas eleições de 2016, Hillary Clinton. A revelação pode dar munição a investigadores que analisam se houve conluio entre o Kremlin e a campanha presidencial de Trump.

Que tal se informar sobre o episódio e ainda testar seu inglês? Ontem, no Twitter, Trump Jr divulgou uma nota sobre o caso. Confira o texto a seguir e escolha as alternativas corretas para preencher as lacunas:

To everyone, in order to be 1. (   ) total transparent  (   ) totally transparent  (   ) totaly transparency, I am releasing the entire email chain of my emails with Rob Goldstone about the meeting on June 9, 2016. The first email on June 3, 2016 was from Rob, who was relating a request from Emin, a person I knew from the 2013 Ms. Universe Pageant near Moscow. Emin and his father have a 2. (   ) very highly respected     (   )  very high respected  (   ) very highly respect company in Moscow.

The 3. (   ) information  (   ) informations they suggested they had about Hillary Clinton I thought 4. (   ) were  (   ) was 5. (   ) Politics  (   ) Political  (   ) Politicians Opposition Research. I first wanted to just have a phone call but when that didn't 6. (   ) work on  (   ) work out  (   ) walk on, they said the woman would be in New York and asked if I would meet. I decided to take the meeting. The woman, as she has said publicly, was not a government official. And, as we have said, she 7. (   ) had no  (   ) didn’t have no (   ) didn’t had no information to provide and wanted to talk about adoption policy and the Magnitsky Act.

To put this in context, this occurred before 8. (   ) the actual  (   ) the current Russian fever was in 9. (   ) craze (   ) trend (   ) vogue. As Rob Goldstone said just today in the press, the entire meeting was “the most inane nonsense l ever heard. And I was actually agitated by it.”

Texto extraído do www.nytimes.com

Respostas

To everyone, in order to be 1. totally transparent, I am releasing the entire email chain of my emails with Rob Goldstone about the meeting on June 9, 2016. The first email on June 3, 2016 was from Rob, who was relating a request from Emin, a person I knew from the 2013 Ms. Universe Pageant near Moscow. Emin and his father have a 2. very highly respected company in Moscow.

The 3. information they suggested they had about Hillary Clinton I thought 4. was 5. Political Opposition Research. I first wanted to just have a phone call but when that didn't 6. work out, they said the woman would be in New York and asked if I would meet. I decided to take the meeting. The woman, as she has said publicly, was not a government official. And, as we have said, she 7. had no information to provide and wanted to talk about adoption policy and the Magnitsky Act.

To put this in context, this occurred before the 8. current Russian fever was in 9. vogue. As Rob Goldstone said just today in the press, the entire meeting was “the most inane nonsense l ever heard. And I was actually agitated by it.”

Lígia Velozo Crispino é fundadora e sócia-diretora daCompanhia de Idiomas. É coautora do Guia Corporativo Política de Treinamento para RHs e autora do livro de poemasFora da Linhae organizadora doSarau Conversarna Livraria Martins Fontes.