Activity of interpretation, addressed to eighth grade students, of the text change the pace. It is a text that leads us to reflect on the need to slow down, living more smoothly! To do so, it takes as a starting point a fact reported by the press, in which a woman suffers a massive heart attack, after a heated discussion with a motorcyclist in traffic… Shall we reflect? So, read the text and then answer the proposed interpretative questions!
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A driver is stopped in traffic, a motorcyclist tries to go down the aisle between the cars and hits his rearview mirror. It's enough to start a heated discussion. The scene is common, it repeats itself daily and, perhaps, it has even happened to you. It happened one morning in 2013 with a 38-year-old Belo Horizonte, while driving with her children to the
mall. The difference in this story is that she was cardiac and the argument with the motorcyclist who damaged her car took her to a massive heart attack (for those who may be wondering, yes, the story is real and it was reported by the press).Is this, then, the value of a life? A rearview mirror? When we overreact to a minor problem or setback, we don't realize that the consequences can come in the same measure.
In the cover story of this issue, psychologist Pakisa Araújo discusses how people, in general, have lost track of what is a very serious fact, a serious incident or such an everyday nuisance. Why does it seem that, these days, snarling and cursing everyone and everything is the first answer to any problem?
With the constant acceleration of the modern world, we are constantly bombarded with information, demands, deadlines, etc. All of this, without a doubt, has a direct effect on our nervous system, leaving us more tense and “in a position to attack”.
But if we can't slow the world down, at least we can try to live our lives at a less mind-blowing pace. It's that old “if you want to change the world, start with you” cliché. Stop, breathe, look around, admire the beauty of the day, feel the pleasure of being in the company of people you cherish. Contemplate.
NEWSPAPER Urgent News – Assemp. Editorial. Issue 243, October 2014.
Question 1 - A true story, reported by the press, was the starting point for writing the text “Change the rhythm”. What fact, present in this story, that motivated the text?
a) a motorcyclist attempts to overtake in stopped traffic.
b) a motorcyclist hits the rear view of a woman's car.
c) a heated argument between a woman and a motorcyclist.
d) a woman is the victim of a massive heart attack after an argument with a motorcyclist.
Question 2 - “When we overreact to a minor problem or setback […]”. What does it mean to overreact?
a) It means reacting in a restrained way.
b) It means overreacting.
c) It means reacting recklessly.
d) It means reacting unexpectedly.
Question 3 - It can be deduced that the author of the text above considers the fact involving the woman and the motorcyclist:
a) very serious.
b) a serious incident.
c) an everyday hassle.
d) difficult to solve.
Question 4 - “All of this, without a doubt, has a direct effect on our nervous system […]”. What does the text refer to?
A.
Question 5 - Look carefully at the sentences. Then tick the one in which the "why" was used correctly:
a) I don't know why cursing everyone and everything is the first answer to any problem.
b) I don't know why cursing everyone and everything is the first answer to any problem.
c) I don't know why cursing everyone and everything is the first answer to any problem.
d) I don't know why cursing everyone and everything is the first answer to any problem.
Question 6 – In the last paragraph of the text, the quotation marks indicate:
a) a popular speech.
b) a speech by the person who wrote the text.
c) a statement from the motorcyclist involved with the fact.
d) a speech by psychologist Pakisa Araújo.
Question 7 – At the end of the text, the author searches for:
a) give an order to the reader.
b) inform the reader.
c) entertain the reader.
d) advise the reader.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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