This Portuguese Activity aims to study the Direct and Indirect Speech, through the news that deals with the following curiosity “Which is the polyglot who speaks the most languages?”. 9th grade students are called to make the proper distinction between these types of speech.
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by Felipe Branco Cruz
According to the Guinness, is retired US military officer Gregg M. Cox, able to read and write in 64 languages (14 of them fluently) and 11 dialects. But, there are also extraordinary cases that were not recorded in the record books. Carlos Amaral Freire, 82, from Santa Catarina, has already studied 135 languages. “For over 50 years, I've learned two new ones a year. But I don't have the vanity of being the greatest polyglot in the world”, he says. “Just to talk to my family I need five languages: Basque, Spanish, Italian, Greek and Portuguese." He is the author of the book Babel de Poemas, with texts translated from 60 different languages into the Portuguese. Recently, he studied Low German (spoken in northern Germany) and Sicilian and revised five other languages. […]
Available in: http://mundoestranho.abril.com.br. Accessed on: Jun. 2016.
Question 1 - The purpose of the text is:
to inform
b) entertain
c) disclose
d) instruct
Question 2 - Highlight the excerpts that make up the direct speech and circle the excerpts that make up the indirect speech. Then define:
a) Direct speech:
b) Indirect speech:
Question 3 - “He he is the author of the book Babel de Poemas […]”. The pronominal form replaces:
A:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
At answers are in the link above the header.
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