Thirty-Four Degrees by Ten: escolas construídas para outro clima (B2)
Last October, three schools in the eastern district sent pupils home before lunch. The reason was not illness or a strike but temperature: classrooms built in the nineteen-sixties, with wide south-facing windows and no shading, reached thirty-four degrees by mid-morning. Head teachers describe an awkward position. Closing the school protects children but pushes the problem onto working parents, most of whom cannot simply leave. The regional authority has promised external blinds and ventilation for eleven buildings, though the work will not begin before next year. Meanwhile staff improvise with foil, fans and rearranged timetables that move demanding subjects to the early morning. What nobody in the district disputes is that the buildings were designed for a climate that no longer exists. The disagreement is only about who should pay to correct that.
Fonte: English for ALL (texto original).
Segundo a reportagem, o principal ponto de discordância entre os envolvidos diz respeito a
- A) se as temperaturas registradas nas salas chegaram mesmo a trinta e quatro graus.
- B) se as matérias mais exigentes devem ou não ser dadas no início da manhã.
- C) quem deve arcar com o custo de adaptar prédios projetados para outro clima.
- D) se os pais que trabalham têm o direito de sair mais cedo para buscar os filhos.
- E) se a autoridade regional deve instalar persianas em onze prédios ou apenas em três.