Text interpretation activity, proposed to fourth or fifth year students, based on the text “O reizinho mandão” written by Ruth Rocha.
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Once upon a time there was a little king who kept telling his subjects to shut up. People, then, from being silent so much, started to forget how to speak. Then the little king realized what he had done to his people and decided to visit the neighboring kingdom and consult a sage who lived there.
He was a little old man who talked through his elbows. If it was before this whole story had happened, I bet the little king would soon tell him to shut up.
But now the little king was very different!
Even he apologized for being bothering…
And when the sage interrupted the king, he didn't even care, he kept giggling to please the old man.
You needed to see the whistle the old man gave the little king!
– Well, yes – he said – Tell me to shut up, won't you? Then hang on! And that's what?
And the old man walked up and down, shook his head, shook his finger, right in the king's nose.
And the king couldn't do anything, that he wasn't king of that place or anything, and he was even in the sage's house...
Suddenly the old man calmed down, sat down next to the little king and said:
– Look here, good guy. This business of being king is not like that, no! It's not just about sending it here, sending it there. You have to have judgment, wisdom. The things a king does make other things happen. Just look at your case: you ordered it! He invented a lot of silly laws. He told everyone to shut up, shut up, shut up! Sure enough, afraid that everyone would say you were fooling around. Because everyone shut up! Isn't that what you wanted?
The little king bowed his head, disappointed...
– And it's no use sulking! – continued the old man. – Now you have to deal with this situation.
- That's exactly what I want - said the little king. – You tell me what I should do, that I do!
– Very well! - Said the old man. – What you have to do is go out in your kingdom knocking from door to door. If you can find one child, one child, who can still speak, he will tell you what he needs to hear. And on that day your kingdom will be free from this curse.
Ruth Rocha
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3) How many paragraphs are there in the text?
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5) What did the little king keep telling his subjects to do?
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6) What happened over time?
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7) After realizing what he had done to his people, what did the little king decide to do?
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8) How was the old sage?
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9) What shows that the little king had changed?
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10) What did the sage tell the king to do?
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