Portuguese activity asks 7th year students to properly fit the past tense, purposely shuffled, in the construction of the text the legend of umbu. In this context, the notion of textual coherence and cohesion is worked on.
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Activity: The verbs, highlighted in the legend below, were scrambled. Rewrite it, fitting them in the proper place, in order to make sense of the text:
In the beginning, the trees were all the same. But one day God was very happy, because devils and men had been defeated, and has arrived to celebrate this by satisfying the wishes of the trees.
explained for the colonel what it was she wanted. Is it over there said that she wanted to be so tough as to resist the blows of the ax. He asked for the sauce. He solved that he wanted to whistle. He asked the fig tree in the field. She said she wanted to be strong, very tall, very beautiful.
And so God was fulfilling the request of all the trees.
When satisfied at the umbu's turn, this one said that he wanted to have a very weak body, like wood for nothing, but, if possible, he wanted to be big, to give enough shade to the men.
God He asked his will, too, but first he asked why he wanted to have weak, soft wood, while all trees wanted to be strong and hard like the coronilla. So the umbu answered who wanted his wood to be used, someday, for the cross and sacrifice of a saint. And since then, umbu has been like that.
Lisbon. Oral literature for childhood and youth: Legends, tales and popular fables from Brazil.
São Paulo: Peirópolis, 2002.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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