Activity of text interpretation aimed at sixth year students. This is the book review Smoke, written by Antón Fortes, whose setting is the Second World War. According to the author of the text, Smoke is one of those books that should be read, so that we never forget that atrocities, human evils cannot be committed as they once were. Want to know about this book? So, be sure to read the review and then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Smoke is a sad book, very sad. The story he tells, the beautiful illustrations that accompany it, everything is sad. But Fumaça is one of those books that should be read, so that we never forget that atrocities, human evils, cannot be committed as they once were. I don't know if you've ever heard of the Holocaust. This big word is very old, but it was very marked during World War II. Today, when we speak of Holocaust, we are reminded of the Jewish Holocaust. The word carries in its syllables the most horrible thing man can do against himself: kill each other.
This is what happened to millions of people, most of them Jews, during the war. They were sent to concentration camps, lost everything they had and had to do forced labor, earning very little food in return. That's who was saved, because many ended up going to gas chambers and were killed. Many children ended up in these horrible places and it is such a story that Fumaça tells. Since when the boy was separated from his father and stayed with his mother in the concentration camp, losing all the comforts of his home. That's when he started dreaming of black-tongued dragons that wanted to eat him. And it was more or less dragons, with chimneys that spewed black smoke, that the boy had to flee.
I said the book was sad. And the illustrations are chilling. It makes a lump in my throat to think that, although this story is fiction, it actually existed, and in the lives of a lot of boys and girls.
"Smoke". Text: Antón Fortes. Illustration: Joanna Concejo.
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Question 1 - The text above is:
a) a chronicle of human atrocities.
b) a review of the book “Fumaça”.
c) a tale about the Holocaust.
d) news referring to World War II.
Question 2 - Who wrote the read text?
A.
Question 3 – The text is entered with:
a) an opinion about the book “Fumaça”.
b) a description of the book “Smoke”.
c) an excerpt from the book “Fumaça”.
d) an explanation of the book “Smoke”.
Question 4 – In the passage “Mas Fumaça is one of those books that should be read, so that we never forget that the atrocities […]”, who wrote the text:
a) issues an alert to readers.
b) makes a recommendation to readers.
c) gives an order to readers.
d) expresses a wish to the readers.
Question 5 - Transcribe the part of the text that presents the summary of the story narrated in the book “Smoke”:
A.
Question 6 – Underline the verbs that make up this text fragment:
“They were sent to concentration camps, they lost everything they had […]”
Question 7 – The verbs, underlined above, point to facts:
a) apparent in the lives of Jews during World War II.
b) hypothetical in the lives of Jews during World War II.
c) sporadic in the lives of Jews during World War II.
d) constants in the lives of Jews during World War II.
Question 8 – In “And the illustrations are chilling.”, the expression “de chilling” is used to:
a) explain the illustrations in the book “Smoke”.
b) highlight the illustrations in the book “Fumaça”.
c) characterize the illustrations in the book “Fumaça”.
d) criticize the illustrations in the book “Fumaça”.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
At answers are in the link above the header.
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