Activity of interpretation, aimed at seventh-year students, from the African tale the two women and heaven. According to the text, two women from an African village were involved in such an exciting conversation as they kneaded the wheat grains with their pestles. Until one of them pierced the sky with its pestle… Do you want to know the continuity of this story? So, be sure to read it and immerse yourself in its content, answering the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
(African tale)
In the beginning of time, the distance between heaven and earth was very small: it was no more than the height of a giraffe.
One day, in an African village, two women were with their pestles crushing grains of wheat. The two wouldn't stop talking. It was gossip after gossip. One of them, getting very excited by the talk, raised the pestle so high that it made a hole in the sky.
–Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooi shouted the sky.
So excited by the conversation were the two women that they didn't hear the scream.
Turns out she didn't stop there. The celestial space began to take holes and holes because the two women, so excited with the conversation, did not realize that their pestles were tearing at the sky, which continued to scream.
Upstairs, the bluish carpet wept, screamed, and to no avail. Finally, she made a decision:
– That's no longer possible, I'll get away from the land as much as I can.
She climbed, climbed as high as she could. When she got there on top of the world, she settled down:
– This is good. No one else will be able to pierce me.
All the holes the two women made were never closed again. Africans say that these holes can be seen daily at night: they are the stars in the sky.
BRENMAN, Ilan. “The Favorite Narratives of a Storyteller”. Cultural Dissemination of the Book, 2005.
Question 1 - The African tale above is of nature:
a) fictional
b) scientific
c) journalistic
d) didactic
Question 2 - Predominates in the text:
( ) the formal language.
( ) informal language.
Question 3 - Identify the purpose of the text "The two women and Heaven":
a) defend an opinion about the emergence of the universe.
b) explain the appearance of the stars in the sky.
c) give information about the sky.
d) present the African continent.
Question 4 - The second paragraph of the text presents the fact that motivated the story. Point it out:
a) “[…] two women were with their pestles crushing grains of wheat.”
b) "The two wouldn't stop talking."
c) "It was gossip after gossip."
d) “One of them … lifted the pestle so high that it made a hole in the sky.”
Question 5 - In the excerpt “–Aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! – the sky screamed.”, the sky's reaction to the hole was represented by:
a) a verb that expresses pain.
b) a noun that expresses pain.
c) an interjection that expresses pain.
d) an adjective that expresses pain.
Question 6 – According to the text, what was the attitude of the women towards the cry from heaven?
A.
Question 7 – Heaven begins to solve the problem when:
a) cries and screams a lot.
b) decides to get away from the land as much as possible.
c) climb as high as you can.
d) reaches the top of the world.
Question 8 – According to the African tale, the holes in the sky, made with pestles by the two women of the village, had a consequence. Identify it:
A.
Question 9 – The short story presents two expressions that use the term “heaven”, avoiding repetition. Find them:
A.
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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