Text Interpretation: Dialogues

text interpretation activity proposal for students of seventh year of elementary school. It's about reading a really cool text about a father who takes his daughter to a psychologist to solve a problem and then… get curious? So take a look, teacher! Along with the text there are five questions of textual interpretation. Good work! 😉 😉 😉 

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Dialogues

He phoned in great distress.
─ I need to make an appointment, it's not for me, it's for my daughter.
─ How old is your daughter?
─ Fifteen years.
─ Does she want to come?
─ Want, want…
They arrive at the appointment ahead of time. Agitated, he talks a lot, this is my daughter, I want him to talk to her, to convince her not to travel.

The girl, teenager, sullen, chin jutted up, mouth clenched with determination.
─ Shall we go in? Ana invites them both.
─ No, no, she enters alone.
The girl gets up and goes to the consultation room.
─ What brought you here?
─ Nothing, I have nothing to say, I have nothing to discuss, I didn't want to come, I don't need to come here. I already told my father.
─ But since you came, couldn't you tell what it is about?
─ I want to travel, meet my mother who lives abroad, I want to go live with her. My parents are separated, he doesn't want to leave me, but I go anyway.
─ Did you try to talk to him?
─ It's no use, he doesn't want to hear it, and that's why my mother left and I don't want to talk about it anymore.
(Would she be repeating her mother's gesture, leaving without conversation, without explanation?)
─ It seems that dialogue is not welcome in her house.
─ No, get up to leave, that's not it.
─ Maybe you wanted your father to talk to you, instead of bringing you to talk to a psychologist you neither know nor asked to meet.
This is the only time Maria actually looks at Ana.
─ That's right, she says and heads for the door. In the waiting room, Ana tells her father:
─ Your daughter wants you to talk to her, wants to be heard by you, not me. She has nothing to say to me, but she has a lot to say to you.
─ No, no, I don't know how to talk to her, I don't understand what she says, she's just like her mother, that's why I brought her here, so you can talk to her.
─ So let's talk together?
─ No, I can't. They get up and leave, never to return.

(LOEB, Sylvia. Dialogues. In: ____. Tales from the divan. Cotia: Editorial Ateliê, 2007. P. 73)

Questions

1) The use of reticence that is presented in the initial dialogue of the text between the father and the psychologist demonstrates:
a) the calm side of the father.
b) the father's intellectual side.
c) the angry side of the father.
d) the father's emotional side.
e) the father's religious side.

2) From reading the text, we can say that the fifteen-year-old daughter:
a) she is a happy girl.
b) she is a smart girl.
c) is a girl who defends animals.
d) is a girl who fights with her mother.
e) is a girl who has conflicts with her father.

3) In the excerpt “─ It seems that dialogue is not welcome in your home.”:
a) the psychologist suggests that father and daughter should talk less.
b) the psychologist contradicts the girl.
c) the psychologist suggests a hypothesis for the problem.
d) the psychologist presents a definitive solution to the problem.
e) the psychologist demonstrates impatience with the girl's attitude.

4) Regarding the names of the characters, it is possible:
a) know the name of the fifteen-year-old daughter.
b) know the name of the girl's mother.
c) know the name of the girl's sister.
d) know the name of the girl's father.
e) state that Ana is the name of the fifteen-year-old daughter.

5) According to the text, it is NOT correct to conclude that:
a) the father had difficulty talking to his daughter.
b) that the girl abandoned her father to live with her mother.
c) Ana was the name of the psychologist who attended them.
d) the father called the psychologist very distressed.
e) father and daughter did not return to the consultation.

By André Tarragô Martins – Middle and Middle School Teacher of Portuguese Language and Master in Letters in the area of ​​Language, Interaction and Learning Processes. In addition, he is a musician and journalist. He works in pre-university entrance exams, pre-contests, private lessons, preparation of competition tests and is content creator for the Portal www.acessaber.com.br.

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