Text interpretation, “Concepts and the importance of struggles”, aimed at eighth grade students.
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Read and then answer the questions:
Before becoming a sport, fighting or martial arts had two main connotations: they were practiced with a warrior objective or had a philosophical appeal as a very significant.
Currently, we are faced with the great expansion of martial arts worldwide. The oriental roots were spreading, sometimes because of the need to fight for survival or for “personal defense”, sometimes because of the possibility of having the martial arts as its own philosophy of life. […]
Source: CARREIRO, E. THE. physical education at school: Implications for pedagogical practice. Rio de Janeiro: Guanabara Koogan, 2008.
Question 1 - Read the following statements about the text:
I. Originally oriental, the martial arts are primarily for self-defense.
II. Before being conceived as a sport, martial arts were based on the need to fight for survival.
III. The text presents the purposes of the practice of martial arts.
Only what is stated in:
there
b) II
c) III
d) I and III
Question 2 - Read back:
"The eastern roots were spreading, now by the need to fight for survival or for "self-defense", now for the possibility of having the martial arts as its own philosophy of life.”.
The connectives indicated in the excerpt above indicate a:
a) comparison
b) proportion
c) alternation
d) explanation
Question 3 - Identify the purpose of using the colon in the first paragraph of the text:
A:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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