Text interpretation activity aimed at fourth year students. The text used in this interpretation is “The story of two arms”.
This Portuguese activity can be downloaded in Word (template that can be modified), in PDF (ready to print) and also the answered activity.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Once upon a time there were two arms: the right and the left.
The right arm felt the best. He was the one who combed his hair, brushed his teeth, picked up the spoon at lunchtime. It was his right arm that scratched his head, his big toe, and even put his finger in his nose.
Meanwhile, the left arm was just standing there, looking at the right arm with a little envy... And the right arm just doing everything.
Sometimes the right arm needed the left to pick up something heavier, wash the face, that sort of thing. But only sometimes.
The right arm started to say that the left had a silly hand (look at that!). And he said the left would never be smart like him.
The left one said: - That's because our owner is right-handed. If he was left-handed the smarter I would be.
But the right arm… he pretended not to hear.
One day his right arm was injured, he went to the doctor and was bandaged. He couldn't do anything, the poor thing. Everything hurt, everything was agony.
Then the left arm offered to help. The right even resisted a little; but he needed to rest to heal and that's why he accepted.
The left arm was all happy and was soon putting his hands on the dough. At first it was clumsy, but then it got the hang of it. And he did what he did until it was almost as good as the right one.
Then they realized that no one is better than anyone else and that they needed each other. And even after the right had healed, he always called the left one to help.
1. What is the title of the text?
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2. What are the characters in the text?
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3. What did the right think about the left?
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4. What happened to make him change his mind?
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5. How was their relationship at the end of the story?
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