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Text Interpretation: Ex-Retiring Life

Text interpretation activity, suitable for students in the seventh or eighth year of elementary school, using the text “Ex-retirante's life”. With questions about the use of the hyphen and the study of verbs.

This Portuguese activity is available for download in an editable Word template, ready to print in PDF and also the answered activity.

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

FORMER LIFE

Zé de Jorge and the goats of salvation

Seu Zé de Jorge (his baptismal name, José Elias, no one knows) is crazy about goats. He took the profit of sisal and bought 60 of them, all in perfect harmony with the owner. They walk when he says “go”, they stop when he says “stay”. You don't even need to raise your voice. He is dedicated to investing: “I don't like to sleep in the city because it's far from the corral”. it says.

The numbers help to understand the reason for such zeal: 40 liters of milk are sold daily to Apaeb, totaling R$ 990 per month. Like most people from Vale, Zé de Jorge sought out the association when the drought ended his crop and made him travel 300 kilometers in search of work. Never. In its plantation, today, the remains of sisal are spread like a soil protection blanket or are kept to feed the animals in the drought. All Apaeb's invention. “I've been fighting since I was 13 years old, but it was only with knowledge that I discovered that by taking care of it, no one goes thirsty and no animal dies of hunger,” he says.

Época Magazine/ December 25, 2006

Answer:

1.The subject covered in the text is:

a) ( ) A former retreatant who, after a drought that ended his crop, stopped planting sisal and decided to invest in raising goats. This investment became profitable.

b) ( ) A former retreatant who, after a drought that ended his farming, decided to invest in the planting of sisal. This investment is yielding good profits.

c) ( ) A former retreatant who, after a drought that ended his crop, decided to take the profit of sisal and invest in raising goats. Today he plants sisal and raises goats, which have yielded good profits.

d) ( ) A former retreatant who, after a drought that ended his crop, decided to take the profit of sisal and invest in raising goats. Today he only raises goats, because the profit is very good.

2.What is the meaning of the phrase “Zé de Jorge and the goats of salvation”:

a) ( ) Zé de Jorge's goats saved the sisal crop.

b) ( ) Zé de Jorge's goats saved his life, because the milk taken from the animals did not let the former retreatant die of thirst during the dry season.

c) ( ) Zé de Jorge is no longer a migrant after investing in raising goats.

d) ( ) The goats are Zé de Jorge's salvation, because they yield 40 liters of milk daily, which helps in the monthly profit.

3.“…walk when he says “go”, stop when he says “stay”…” – Who practices the action of walking and stopping in the sentence:

a.( ) the former retreatant

b.( ) the reporter

c.( ) the goats

  1. Who does the pronoun refer to he in the sentence above:

a.( ) to the reporter

b.( ) to the former withdrawal

c.( )the goats

  1. The verbs "walk" and "stop" in the sentence above are in:

a.( ) present of the callsign

b.( ) present of the subjunctive

c.( ) negative imperative

6. Note the highlighted word and answer according to the New Spelling rules. former migrant.

a.( ) the word ex-retirante is spelled correctly, because with the prefix ex the hyphen is always used.

b.( ) the word ex-retirante is not spelled correctly, because with the prefix ex in front of a word beginning with a consonant we should not use a hyphen.

c.( ) the word ex-retirante is not spelled correctly, because the hyphen has been removed from our spelling.

  1. In the sentence “… he's crazy about his goats…” there are respectively:

a.( ) 1 connecting verb, 1 adjective, 1 preposition, 1 possessive pronoun, 1 noun

b.( ) 2 verbs, 1 preposition, 1 noun, 1 adjective,

c.( ) 1 verb, 2 prepositions, 2 nouns

d.( ) 2 nouns, 1 verb, 1 preposition, 1 adjective

  1. “… or stay saved…” The highlighted word refers to:

a.( ) the drought

b.( ) sisal leftovers

c.( ) to the ground

d.( ) to the protective cloak

By Rosiane Fernandes Silva

At answers are in the link above the header.

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