Text interpretation, “What is Wealth and Poverty”, aimed at 9th grade students. The proposed questions address the theme and the linguistic resources used in the construction of the referred text, which lead to important reflections.
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Read this text and then answer the questions proposed about it:
One day, a father of a rich family took his son on a trip to the interior with the firm intention of showing how poor people can be.
They spent a day and a night on the farm of a very poor family.
When they returned from the trip, the father asked his son:
"- How was the trip?"
"- Very good, Daddy!"
"- Did you see how poor people can be?"
"- Yea." replied the boy.
“- And what did you learn?”, the father asked.
The son replied:
“- I saw that we have a dog at home, and they have four.
We have a swimming pool that reaches the middle of the garden; they have a creek that has no end.
We have a covered porch lit with light, they have a huge sky with the stars and the moon.
Our yard goes to the entrance gate, they have a whole forest.”
The little boy was just finishing answering when his father was stunned by what the son added:
“- Thank you, Dad, for showing me how poor we are…”.
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1) Realize that the text is built through the opposition of thoughts, regarding the definition of wealth and poverty. Explain this opposition:
2) “We have” and “They have” are repeated throughout the text in the construction of the opposition mentioned in the previous question. Identify what the terms highlighted below refer to:
We we have:
They has:
3) Reread this passage:
"The little boy was just answering when his father was dumbfounded so the son added:
“- Thank you, Dad, for showing me how poor we are…”.
Note that the word “stupefied” was used to express the father's reaction to the son's discovery. Identify other words that could be placed in place of the quoted word, without interfering with the meaning of the text:
4) Explain why the use of the quotation mark in almost the entire textual extension:
5) Justify the use of the comma in these excerpts, in which the child expresses his opinion about the trip he made:
"- Very good, Daddy!"
“- Thank you, Dad, for showing me how poor we are…”.
6) A sentence is omitted in the following period:
a) “- I saw that we have a dog at home, and they have four.”.
b) “We have a swimming pool that reaches the middle of the garden; they have a creek that has no end.”.
c) "We have a covered porch lit with light, they have a huge sky with the stars and the moon."
d) “Our yard goes to the entrance gate, they have a whole forest.”.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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