FMABC 2021: No trecho do sexto parágrafo “because you feel you ought to”

Leia o texto para responder às questões de 21 a 28.

Your screen freezes. There’s a weird echo. A dozen heads stare at you. There are the work huddles, the one-on-one meetings and then, once you’re done for the day, the hangouts with friends and family. Since theCovid-19 pandemic hit, we’re on video calls more than ever before – and many are finding it exhausting.

Being on a video call requires more focus than a facetoface chat, says Gianpetro Petriglier, who studies sustainable development in the workplace. Video chats mean we need to work harder to process non-verbal cueslike facial expressions, the tone and pitch of the voice, and body language. “Our minds are together when our bodies feel we’re not. And that dissonance tires us out,” he says.

Silence is another challenge, he adds. “Silence creates a natural rhythm in a real-life conversation. However, when it happens in a video call, you become anxious about the technology.” One 2014 study by German academics showed that delays on phone or conferencing systems shaped our views of people negatively: even delays of 1.2 seconds made people perceive the responder as less friendly or focused.

Our present-day circumstances – whether quarantine, working from home or otherwise – are also feeding in. Aspects of our lives that used to be separate – work, school, friends, family – are all happening in the same space. Individuals have multiple aspects – contextdependent social roles, relationships, activities and goals – and we find the variety healthy, says Petriglieri. When these aspects are reduced, we become more vulnerable to negative feelings.

A lack of downtime after we’ve fulfilled some work or family commitment may be another factor in our tiredness, while some of us may be putting higher expectations on ourselves due to worries over the economy or job losses. “There’s also that heightened sense of ‘I need to be performing at my top level in a situation’… Some of us are kind of over-performing to secure our jobs.”

Lots of us are doing big group chats for the first time, whether it’s cooking and eating a virtual dinner, attending a university catch-up or holding a birthday party for a friend. If the call is meant to be fun, why might it feel tiring? Part of it is whether you’re joining in because you want to or because you feel you ought to. If you see it as an obligation, that means more time that you’re ‘on’ as opposed to getting a break.

Experts’ suggestions for Zoom¹ fatigue? Limiting video calls to those that are necessary. Considering if video chats are really the most efficient option. And maybe, says Petriglieri, if you want to reach out, go oldschool. “Write a letter to someone instead of meeting them on Zoom. Tell them you really care about them.”

(Manyu Jiang. Disponível em: www.bbc.com, 22.abr.2020. Adaptado.)

¹Zoom: a video communication platform for use in computers andsmartphones.

QUESTÃO 27

FMABC 2021: No trecho do sexto parágrafo “because you feel you ought to”, a expressão sublinhada pode ser substituída, sem alteração de sentido, por

a) choose to.

b) have to.

c) would like to.

d) would prefer to.

e) are told to.

QUESTÃO ANTERIOR:

- FMABC 2021: The fragment from the fifth paragraph “‘I need to be performing at my top level in a situation’” means, in the context, that I need to

RESOLUÇÃO (Cursos Objetivo):

ought to = have to = deve, deveria.

GABARITO:

b) have to.

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