Activity of interpretation, aimed at seventh-year students, from the text Vultures and Thrush. In it, the writer Rubem Alves tells of the interest of the vultures in becoming singers… But, what do you mean? They are not birds! Yeah… Just imagine how this story will end, huh? You will reflect a lot! Then, he reads the text and then answers the various interpretative questions proposed!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
It all happened in a distant land, at the time when the animals spoke... The vultures, birds by nature, albeit, but without great gifts for singing, they decided that, even against nature they would become great singers. And for this they founded schools and imported teachers, gargled do-re-mi-fa, had diplomas printed and they had competitions with each other to see which of them would be the most important and would be allowed to rule us others. That's how they organized contests and gave each other fancy names, and the dream of every little vulture, instructor at the beginning of his career, it was to become a respectable titular vulture, whom everyone calls Your Excellency.
Everything was going very well until the sweet tranquility of the vulture hierarchy was shaken. The forest was invaded by bands of chattering goldfinches, who played with the canaries and serenaded with the thrush... The old vultures crooked their beaks, rancor curled their foreheads, and they summoned goldfinches, thrush and canaries to a inquiry.
“⎯ Where are your tender documents?” And the poor birds looked at each other perplexed, because they had never imagined that such things existed. They hadn't gone through singing schools, because singing was born with them. And they never presented a diploma to prove that they knew how to sing, but they simply sang...
“⎯ No, it can't be that way. Singing without the proper degree is disrespectful to order.”
And the vultures, in unison, expelled from the forest the little birds that sang without permission…
MORAL: IN THE LAND OF GRADUATE VULTURES THERE IS NO SINGING OF SABIÁ.
ALVES, Reuben. “Stories of Who Likes to Teach”. São Paulo: Ars Poética, 1985, p.81-2.
Question 1 - Identify the fact that motivated the text "Vultures and Thrush":
A.
Question 2 - Reread the first paragraph. Afterwards, locate the passage in which the narrator characterizes the vultures:
A.
Question 3 - Point out the climax of the story:
a) the vultures would decide to become singers.
b) the vultures held singing competitions against each other.
c) birds invaded the forest.
d) the old vultures summoned the birds for an inquiry.
Question 4 – The story ends when:
a) "The old vultures crooked their beaks, rancor curled their foreheads [...]"
b) “[…] the poor birds looked at each other perplexed […]”
c) “[…] presented a diploma to prove that they knew how to sing […]”
d) “[…] the vultures expelled from the forest the birds that sang without a permit…”
Question 5 - In the passage “That's how they organized contests and gave themselves pompous names […]”, the term “they” is in place of:
a) the vultures
b) the goldfinches
c) the thrush
d) the canaries
Question 6 – In the period “They had not gone through singing schools, because singing was born with them.”, the word “because” introduces:
a) a condition
b) a reason
c) a purpose
d) a consequence
Question 7 – Quotation marks were used in the text to indicate:
a) the words of the old vultures.
b) the words of the poor birds.
c) the narrator's opinions of the text.
d) quotes from the narrator of the text.
Question 8 – It can be concluded that the text above is:
a) a news
b) a legend
c) a short story
d) a fable
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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