Text interpretation aimed at fourth or fifth year students, using the text “The boy and the priest”.
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A priest was walking through the sertão carrying out his ministry, that is, the catechism, and as he was very thirsty, he approached a hut and called for someone from within. Then a very young boy came to meet him. withered.
– Good morning my son, don't you have a little water here for the priest?
– There is no water, sir, here there is only a pot full of garapa of sugar! If you want… - said the boy
- Serves go fetch. – asked the priest.
And the boy brought the garapa inside a gourd, the priest drank a lot and the boy offered more suspiciously, but, as he was too relentless, the priest accepted. After drinking, the priest, curious, asked the boy:
'Tell me something, isn't your mother going to fight you over this garapa?
– No fight, sir, she doesn't want that garapa anymore, she was going to throw it away because she had a dead cockroach inside the pot.
Surprised and disgusted, the priest throws the gourd, and it breaks into a thousand pieces and furious he exclaims.
– Damned kid, why didn't you tell me before?
The boy looked desperately at the priest, and then said in a rueful tone:
– Now I'm going to take a big beating, you just broke Grandma's little gourd, peeing inside…
1) What is the title of the text?
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2) How many paragraphs are there in the text?
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3) What led the priest to walk through the sertão?
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4) What did the priest do when he was very thirsty? Who helped you?
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5) Was the boy able to help the priest? What did he do?
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6) The priest was surprised that the boy offered him the garapa. When he asked the boy if his mother wouldn't fight, what did he find out?
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7) What happened when the priest found out?
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8) What was the boy's reaction to the priest's scolding?
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9) Look up the meaning of the underlined words in the text in the dictionary:
A) Catechesis:
B) Withered:
C) Garapa:
D) Gourd:
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