Hello, everyone! Hoje tem um trecho de uma entrevista que o apresentador David Letterman fez com o astro da seleção americana de futebol Landon Donovan. A conversa é em inglês rápido, muitas vezes em sentenças fragmentadas - e como o professor Rogerio disse , "A preocupação, em um primeiro momento, é ter uma idéia geral do contexto e situação".
O assunto da entrevista é a última Copa, algo com que muitos de nós estamos familiarizados, ainda que superficialmente. Por exemplo: Letterman fala de gols marcados ou anulados erroneamente; o jogador Landon dá sua opinião sobre o que deve ser feito para minimizar esses erros, etc. Ou seja, nada muito distante do que fez parte das conversas ou do noticiário de pouco tempo atrás.
A. Primeiro, assista o vídeo algumas vezes. Letterman, o entrevistador, conta o que ele observou durante a Copa e questiona Landon a respeito disso.
O assunto da entrevista é a última Copa, algo com que muitos de nós estamos familiarizados, ainda que superficialmente. Por exemplo: Letterman fala de gols marcados ou anulados erroneamente; o jogador Landon dá sua opinião sobre o que deve ser feito para minimizar esses erros, etc. Ou seja, nada muito distante do que fez parte das conversas ou do noticiário de pouco tempo atrás.
A. Primeiro, assista o vídeo algumas vezes. Letterman, o entrevistador, conta o que ele observou durante a Copa e questiona Landon a respeito disso.
B. Veja se você identificou estas palavras e expressões na conversa, que dão uma ideia dos assuntos sendo discutidos. Se não, ouça novamente e tente identificá-las.
injured - part of the culture - down on the ground -advantage - time - balls - disallowed - counted - referee - eyes on the field - bias - tough job - blame
C. A primeira coisa que Letterman observa é que alguns jogadores supostamente usam de um artifício para tentar conseguir vantagem (0:00-0:36).
G. Leia a transcrição da entrevista, e veja onde encontrar as respostas para cada questão:
(Letterman) Alright, I gotta ask you a couple of questions. What's the deal with these guys pretending they've been injured (C1)?
(Landon D.) Ridiculous, huh?
(Letterman) Honestly, is that...? What is that?
(Landon D.) I know.
(Letterman) Oh, oh, oh, oh... I'm fine.
(Landon D.) It's ridiculous, I know. We tried to get them to stop, but what can you do?
(Letterman) Is that, is that part of the culture of the sport? (F)
(Landon D.) Around the world, in a lot of places, yeah. I think people saw, at the end of our Ghana (C2) game... it seemed like every two minutes someone was down on the ground, rolling around and...
(Letterman) And the objective is, the advantage they're trying to gain is, is what? More, more time (C3)?
(Landon D.) Just time, yeah (C3)... I know.
(Letterman) So they can rest! The other thing is, I've never seen a competition where more balls crossed the goal line and into the net, that seemed to have been disallowed, or balls that were counted that shouldn't have been counted.
(Landon D.) Right.
(Letterman) I mean, is that also part of the culture? (F) That you may plan to score eight or nine goals... it'll be disallowed.
(Landon D.) I don't know if we're scoring eight or nine goals, but... No, for us it's difficult, because we know how fast the game is (D1).
(Letterman) Right.
(Landon D.) And as a referee, you can't... You can't see everything (D1). So you either need more eyes on the field or you need some sort of replay (D2), so people get... It sucks to put that much into something you're doing, and then all of a sudden it's taken away from you, so.
(Letterman) But is there... And I was telling everybody that there's an American bias, that the judges - FIFA - and the soccer authorities didn't want America to do very well (E1). Am I right about that, or wrong about that?
(Landon D.) Ah...
(Letterman) I guess you can't answer, can you?
(Landon D.) No comment. No, I don't think there is (E2) but... Like I said earlier, it's a tough job to be a ref and... you can't always blame 'em (them).
(Letterman) But they're crooked, aren't they? I mean...
(Landon D.) You're bent on this, huh? I don't think so, but you can say what you want. I'll get fined for it.
injured - part of the culture - down on the ground -advantage - time - balls - disallowed - counted - referee - eyes on the field - bias - tough job - blame
C. A primeira coisa que Letterman observa é que alguns jogadores supostamente usam de um artifício para tentar conseguir vantagem (0:00-0:36).
- Que artifício é esse?
- Landon dá um exemplo de um jogo onde ele acha que isso aconteceu, mencionando o país adversário. Que país foi?
- Segundo Letterman e Landon, qual é a vantagem que os jogadores esperam conseguir fazendo isso?
- Landon Donovan diz que entende porque estes erros podem acontecer: ele cita uma característica do jogo e fala do árbitro. O que ele diz?
- Landon cita duas coisas que poderiam ajudar a diminuir os erros. O que são?
- Qual é esse "American bias", segundo o apresentador?
- O jogador Landon concorda ou não com Letterman?
G. Leia a transcrição da entrevista, e veja onde encontrar as respostas para cada questão:
(Letterman) Alright, I gotta ask you a couple of questions. What's the deal with these guys pretending they've been injured (C1)?
(Landon D.) Ridiculous, huh?
(Letterman) Honestly, is that...? What is that?
(Landon D.) I know.
(Letterman) Oh, oh, oh, oh... I'm fine.
(Landon D.) It's ridiculous, I know. We tried to get them to stop, but what can you do?
(Letterman) Is that, is that part of the culture of the sport? (F)
(Landon D.) Around the world, in a lot of places, yeah. I think people saw, at the end of our Ghana (C2) game... it seemed like every two minutes someone was down on the ground, rolling around and...
(Letterman) And the objective is, the advantage they're trying to gain is, is what? More, more time (C3)?
(Landon D.) Just time, yeah (C3)... I know.
(Letterman) So they can rest! The other thing is, I've never seen a competition where more balls crossed the goal line and into the net, that seemed to have been disallowed, or balls that were counted that shouldn't have been counted.
(Landon D.) Right.
(Letterman) I mean, is that also part of the culture? (F) That you may plan to score eight or nine goals... it'll be disallowed.
(Landon D.) I don't know if we're scoring eight or nine goals, but... No, for us it's difficult, because we know how fast the game is (D1).
(Letterman) Right.
(Landon D.) And as a referee, you can't... You can't see everything (D1). So you either need more eyes on the field or you need some sort of replay (D2), so people get... It sucks to put that much into something you're doing, and then all of a sudden it's taken away from you, so.
(Letterman) But is there... And I was telling everybody that there's an American bias, that the judges - FIFA - and the soccer authorities didn't want America to do very well (E1). Am I right about that, or wrong about that?
(Landon D.) Ah...
(Letterman) I guess you can't answer, can you?
(Landon D.) No comment. No, I don't think there is (E2) but... Like I said earlier, it's a tough job to be a ref and... you can't always blame 'em (them).
(Letterman) But they're crooked, aren't they? I mean...
(Landon D.) You're bent on this, huh? I don't think so, but you can say what you want. I'll get fined for it.
