Ao estabelecer uma relação entre a Matemática e o blues a partir da opinião pessoal de um dos rapazes, a charge sugere que

A tirinha é um gênero textual que, além de entreter, trata de diferentes temas sociais. No caso dessa tirinha, as falas no 3° quadrinho revelam o foco do tema, que é

Last Monday was a really awful day. I got to school late because I had missed the bus. Then I had a Math test and did badly because I hadn't studied for it. Things went from bad to worse: while I was waiting for the bus home I realised I had lost my money so I had to walk home. I really wanted to go to the cinema with my parents that evening but by the time I got home they had already gone out. I put my dinner in the oven, went to watch TV and fell asleep. When I woke up an hour later, there was a terrible smell and smoke coming up the stairs: I had forgotten to take my dinner out of the oven.

ACEVEDO, A.; GOWER, M. High Flyer. Longman, 1996.

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Mary Mac's mother's making Mary Mac marry me.

My mother's making me marry Mary Mac.

Will I always be so Merry when Mary's taking care of me?

Will I always be so merry when I marry Mary Mac?

(from a song by Carbon Leaf)

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O trava-língua, além de funcionar como um exercício de pronúncia, também pode abordar assuntos relacionados à sociedade. No texto, o tema abordado refere-se

Slumdog Millionaire

Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" hits the ground running. This is a breathless, exciting story, heartbreaking and exhilarating at the same time, about a Mumbai orphan who rises from rags to riches on the strength of his lively intelligence. The film’s universal appeal presents the real India to millions of moviegoers for the first time.

The real India, supercharged with a plot as reliable and eternal as the hills. The film’s surface is so dazzling that you hardly realize how traditional it is underneath. But it's the buried structure that pulls us through the story like a big engine on a short train.

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Ao optar por ler a reportagem completa sobre o assunto anunciado, tem-se acesso a duas palavras que Bill Gates não quer que o leitor conheça e que se referem

Viva la Vida
I used to rule the world Seas would rise when I gave the word Now in the morning and I sleep alone Sweep the streets I used to own
I used to roll the dice Feel the fear in my enemy’s eyes Listen as the crowd would sing “Now the old king is dead! Long live the king!”
One minute I held the key Next the walls were closed on me And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand
[…]
MARTIN, C. Viva la vida, Coldplay. In: Viva la vida or Death and all his friends. Parlophone, 2008.

Letras de músicas abordam temas que, de certa forma, podem ser reforçados pela repetição de trechos ou palavras. O fragmento da canção Viva la vida, por exemplo, permite conhecer o relato de alguém que

THE WEATHER MAN
They say that the British love talking about the weather. For other nationalities this can be a banal and boring subject of conversation, something that people talk about when they have nothing else to say to each other. And yet the weather is a very important part of our lives. That at least is the opinion of Barry Gromett, press officer for The Met Office, This is located in Exeter, a pretty cathedral city in the southwest of England. Here employees - and computers - supply weather forecasts for much of the world.
Speak Up, Ano XXIII, nº 275

Ao conversar sobre a previsão do tempo, o texto mostra

Definidas pelos países membros da Organização das Nações Unidas e por organizações internacionais, as metas de desenvolvimento do milênio envolvem oito objetivos a serem alcançados até 2015. Apesar da diversidade cultural, esses objetivos, mostrados na imagem, são comuns ao mundo todo, sendo dois deles:

Os cartões-postais costumam ser utilizados por viajantes que desejam enviar notícias dos lugares que visitam a parentes e amigos. Publicado no site do projeto ANDRILL, o texto em formato de cartão-postal tem o propósito de