Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, about The clown. This is the history of father and son who share the ring and, supposedly, the same vocation. Are we going to know more about the Brazilian movie “O Palhaço”? So, read the text carefully! Then answer the proposed interpretive questions!
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Benjamin thinks he has lost his grace and goes out in search of meaning
National Cinema
In the AR on 05/05/2020 – 22:30
Circo Esperança crosses dirt roads in the interior of the country. At each stop, a new spectacle and new adventures. In the “family” of 15 people, the main attraction is the duo of clowns PuroSangue and Pangaré, actually Valdemar (Paulo José) and Benjamim (Selton Mello), father and son who share the ring and, supposedly, the same vocation.
The duo is also responsible for managing the circus business, usually with little money and a lot of requests from the talented group and irreverent formed by musicians, trapeze artists, acrobats, dwarfs and a beautiful girl, Guilhermina, a privileged spectator of a magical and lyrical. Despite making the audience laugh, Benjamim goes into a crisis and goes out in search of his own identity. His biggest consumption dream is modest – a simple fan – and until he fulfills it, Benjamim will live small adventures full of meaning.
Through tortuous ways, Benjamim seeks to answer his father's question: “In life we have to do what we know how to do. The cat drinks milk, the mouse eats cheese and I am a clown. Is that you?". Benjamin will need time to find out.
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Question 1 - The text about "The Clown" is:
( ) A tale.
( ) a review.
( ) an opinion article.
Question 2 - In the passage “The pair is also responsible for the administration of the circus business […]”, which pair does the text refer to?
Question 3 - The word “family” appears in quotation marks in the first paragraph of the text, because:
( ) was misspelled.
( ) is the text keyword.
( ) was used figuratively.
Question 4 – In “[…] a lot of requests from the group talented and irreverent […]", the underlined terms:
( ) define the group.
( ) characterize the group.
( ) complement the group.
Question 5 - In the period "Despite making the audience laugh, Benjamin goes into crisis and goes out in search of his own identity.”, the highlighted fact:
( ) justifies the other.
( ) adds to the other.
( ) contrasts with the other.
Question 6 – In the segment “Your biggest consumption dream is modest – a simple fan […]”, the author of the text reveals the dream:
( ) of Valdemar.
( ) of Benjamin.
( ) of Guilhermina.
Question 7 – In the part "Through tortuous ways, Benjamim seeks to answer the father's question [...]", the comma indicates that:
( ) information was omitted.
( ) information has been moved.
( ) an information was merged.
Question 8 – Reread this text fragment:
“In life we have to do what we know how to do. The cat drinks milk, the mouse eats cheese and I am a clown. Is that you?"
In this fragment of text, the author:
( ) exposes an opinion about the movie “O Clown”.
( ) raises a hypothesis about the movie “O Clown”.
( ) quotes a line from one of the characters in the movie “O Clown”.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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