Text Interpretation: The Barber

Text interpretation activity aimed at fourth or fifth year students, using the text “O barbeiro”.

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

THE BARBER

Near the house there was a barber who knew me by sight, he loved the fiddle and he didn't play entirely poorly. On the occasion that he was passing by, he performed I don't know what piece. I stopped on the sidewalk to listen to him (all pretexts for an agonized heart), he saw me and continued to play. He didn't attend to a customer, soon and another one who went there despite the hour and the fact that it was a Sunday, confiding their faces with the razors, he lost them without missing a note. He was playing for me. This consideration brought me frankly to the door of the store, facing him. In the background, lifting the cheetah curtain that closed the interior of the house, I saw a young woman pointing

wheat, light dress, flower in her hair. She was his wife; I believe she discovered me from within and came to thank me with her presence for the favor I was doing to her husband. If I'm not mistaken, he even said it with his eyes. As for her husband, he played warmer now; without seeing the woman, without seeing the customers, he put his face to the instrument, passed his soul to the bow, and played, played...

Questions

1) What is the title of the text?

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2) Find the words in bold in the text and find their meaning in the dictionary:

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3) Where does the story take place?

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4) Who loved the fiddle and didn't play it entirely poorly?

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5) Why didn't the barber serve customers?

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6) Even though it was Sunday, who went to the barber to shave?

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7) Who was playing for a friend?

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8) Who showed up at the store? Describe it.

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9) Who was the brown girl?

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10) Without seeing the woman and the customers as the barber played?

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At answers are in the link above the header.

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