Portuguese Activity: I bet on the text on the word Kangaroo

Portuguese activity, aimed at seventh-year students, explores the bet. Can you identify him? And what role does it play? Did you paint a doubt? So, answer the questions based on the text, in which Millôr Fernandes reveals the origin of the word Kangaroo! Are you curious?

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

Kangaroo

Everyone knows (does it?) that kangaroo comes from a native Australian language and means “I Don't Know”. According to legend, Captain Cook, an explorer of Australia, upon seeing that strange animal taking leaps of more than two meters in height, asked a native what the saying was called. The native replied guugu yimidhirr, in the local language, Gan-guruu, "I don't know." Suspicious that I am of these amusing origins, I researched some etymological dictionaries. No dictionary mentions this. Only in Aurélio, our little Bible – in another version. Precise definition I found, as almost always, in Partridge: Kangarroo; wallaby.

The words kanga and walla, meaning jump and jump, are accompanied by the suffixes roo and by, two aboriginal sounds from Australia, meaning quadrupeds.

So jumping quadrupeds and jumping quadrupeds.

When I communicated the discovery to Paulo Rónai, a notable linguist and great friend of Aurélio Buarque de Holanda, Paulo was pleased to learn of the “real” origin of the name kangaroo. But he added: “Too bad. The other version is much cuter”. I also think.

Millôr Fernandes, February 26, 1999. Available in: .

Questions

Question 1 - Identify the bet referring to Captain Cook:

 A.

Question 2 - The bet, identified above, performs the function of:

( ) question Captain Cook.

( ) introduce Captain Cook.

( ) criticize Captain Cook.

Question 3 - Underline the bet, constructed by the author of the text, in this sentence:

“Only in Aurélio, our little Bible – in another version.”

Question 4 – In “[…] two aboriginal sounds from Australia […]”, the core of the bet is:

( ) "sounds"

( ) "Aborigines"

( ) "Australia"

Question 5 - In the last paragraph of the text, the bet has as reference:

( ) Paulo Rónai.

( ) Aurélio Buarque de Holanda.

( ) Millôr Fernandes.

Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

At answers are in the link above the header.

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