Portuguese activity proposes, to 9th grade students, the study of 1st person singular, through the exciting text a writer is born, by Jorge Amado. It is worth checking!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read this text by Jorge Amado:
The first task given by the new Portuguese teacher was a description with the sea as its theme. The class was all inspired by the choppy seas of Camões, those never sailed before; the Adamastor episode was rewritten by the kids. Prisoner in boarding school, I lived longing for the beaches of Pontal where I had known freedom and dreams. The sea of Ilheus was the subject of my description.
Padre Cabral had taken the duties to correct in his cell. In the next class, between smiling and solemn, he announced the existence of an authentic vocation as a writer in that classroom. He asked them to listen carefully to the assignment he was going to read. He was sure, he said, that the author of that page would in the future be a well-known writer. He didn't haggle over compliments. I had just turned eleven.
I became a personality, according to the canons of the college, alongside footballers, math and religion champions, those who won medals. I was admitted to a kind of Literary Circle where older students shone. Even so, I did not stop feeling a prisoner, a permanent sensation during the two years I studied at the Jesuit College.
There was, however, a noticeable change in the limited life of the boarding student: Father Cabral took me under his protection and placed books from his shelf in my hands. First “Gulliver's Travels”, then Portuguese classics, translations by English and French fiction writers. My passion for Charles Dickens dates from that time. It would take her yet to meet Mark Twain, the American was not among Father Cabral's favorites.
I fondly remember the figure of the erudite and amiable Portuguese Jesuit. Less for having announced me as a writer, above all for having given me the love of books, for having revealed the world of literary creation to me. He helped me get through those two years of boarding, make my prison, my first prison, lighter.
the boy Grapiúna. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 1987.
Question 1 - There is a predominance in the text of sequences:
a) descriptive
b) argumentative
c) expository
d) narratives
Question 2 - The new Portuguese teacher played an important role in the narrator's life because, except:
a) he saw in the then boy an authentic vocation for writing.
b) helped him to endure the time he lived in boarding school.
c) instilled in him a love of books.
d) introduced him to the universe of literary creation.
Question 3 - In all segments, the employment of the 1st person is registered, except in:
a) "The sea of Ilhéus was the subject of my description."
b) “In the next class, between smiling and solemn, he announced the existence of an authentic vocation […]”
c) “I became a personality, according to the canons of the college […]”
d) “I fondly remember the figure of the erudite and amiable Portuguese Jesuit.”
Question 4 – In “No haggled compliments", the underlined verb could be replaced by:
a) selected
b) uttered
c) saved
d) wasted
Question 5 - In the passage “[…] he took me under his protection and placed in my hands books from his shelf.”, the highlighted pronouns resume:
A:
Question 6 – In the part “There was, although, a noticeable change in the limited life of the internal student […]”, the underlined conjunction indicates:
a) comparison
b) opposition
c) explanation
d) condition
Question 7 – In the passage “Prisoner in boarding school, I used to miss the beaches of Pontal Where he will know freedom and dream.”, the highlighted pronoun establishes a relationship of:
in time
b) cause
c) mode
d) place
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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