Text interpretation activity, aimed at students in the fourth and fifth years of elementary school, with questions using the text “The counselor”.
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They say that a certain farmer had a donkey that had made him fat by rest and an ox that had been slaughtered by work.
One day, the ox complained to the donkey and asked him: "Will you not, brother, have any advice to save me from this hard toil?" The donkey replied: “Be sick and don't eat your ration. Seeing you like this, our master will not take you to till the field and you will rest”.
It is said that the farmer understood the language of animals, and understood the dialogue between the donkey and the ox.
The next morning he saw that the ox had not eaten its ration: he left it and took the donkey in its place. The donkey was forced to pull the plow all day, and almost died of fatigue. And he regretted the advice he had given the ox.
When he returned at night, the ox asked him: "How are you, dear brother?" I'm doing very well, replied the donkey. But I heard something that made me shiver because of you. I heard our master say: “If the ox is still sick, we should kill it so that we don't lose its flesh. My opinion is that you eat your ration and go back to your task in order to avoid such a misfortune”.
The ox agreed, and immediately devoured his entire ration.
The farmer was listening, and he laughed.
From the book, The Thousand and One Nights, apud Mansour Chalita, The Most Beautiful Pages of Arabic Literature,
Rio de Janeiro. Ed. Civilização Brasileira, 1967, p.281.
1) Who is the advisor?
( ) the donkey; ( ) the farmer; ( ) the cow; ( ) the bird
2) Who asked for the advice? What motivated this request?
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3) Did the advice have the desired effect? Justify your answer?
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4) Was it good for the donkey to give the ox the advice? Because?
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5) Why did the donkey change its advice? Justify.
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6) What are the main characteristics of the donkey, in this text:
( ) the evil; ( ) cleverness; ( ) kindness; ( ) the laziness;
7) What is the characteristic of the farmer that draws the most attention?:
( ) understanding; ( ) patience ( ) smartness;
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8) Which of the alternatives below best matches the text?
( ) the farmer talked to the animals;
( ) the ox is a greedy animal;
( ) the donkey is a really dumb animal ;
( ) the ox is a lazy animal;
( ) the donkey is a smart animal;
TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
1) What is the title of the text?
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5) How many sentences are there in the text?
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6) How many and which are the characters?
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7) What is the genre of this text? Justify your answer.
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