Text interpretation activity, aimed at students in the eighth grade of elementary school, of the genre report. The various questions proposed explore the content and linguistic resources used in the construction of the report Families left the city for the countryside to live a simple life.
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Exchanging the countryside for the city in search of a better life has always been the most common option. However, some families, tired of the urban chaos, are taking the opposite path, leaving the big cities to literally live in the middle of the forest.
They are people who attended college, enjoyed a certain comfort in the city, but could no longer stand the rush, lack of freedom, traffic and excess consumption. In search of a simpler and healthier life, they are not afraid to face the hoe and discover a new way to survive.
For Manuella Melo Franco, 34, from Minas Gerais, the arrival of her first child was the push she needed to leave the city and, finally, experience a more peaceful and self-sustainable life, alongside fellow Hugo Ruax. “Tomé's birth reinforced our desire. We wanted to offer him a childhood closer to nature, away from consumer values and the madness of the city”, says the photographer and journalist. […]
Marinaldo Pegoraro, 54, from Santa Catarina, also did not take long to leave the apartment in Curitiba (PR), where he lived for the last 11 years, to go live with his wife and two teenage daughters at Sítio Serra Dourada in Delfim Moreira, in the extreme south of Minas Gerais. […]
[…] There is an exhaustion of this model of urban life”, says Marinaldo Pegoraro, without missing the shopping malls and happy to be able to work the land and hear the birdsong.
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Question 1 - The text above is of the genre:
a) chronic
b) opinion article
c) report
d) short story
e) advertising
Question 2 - Identify the subject of the text:
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Question 3 - Point out the reason why people do not move to the countryside:
a) “[…] a certain comfort in the city […]
b) “[…] the rush […]”
c) “[…] lack of freedom […]”
d) “[…] the traffic […]”
e) “[…] excess consumption.”
Question 4 – The text presents the objective of the people who leave the city for the countryside. Identify it:
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Question 5 - According to the interviewee Manuella Melo Franco, “The birth of Tomé reinforced our desire”. What desire does she refer to?
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question 6 – In the segment “[…] to go live with his wife and two teenage daughters at Sítio Serra Dourada in Delfim Moreira […]”, the underlined part expresses the notion of:
a) cause
b) place
c) direction
d) purpose
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Question 7 – In the excerpt "Although, some families, tired of the urban chaos, are taking the opposite path […]”, the highlighted conjunction
a) the comparison between two facts.
b) the explanation of a fact.
c) the completion of a fact.
d) the conclusion of a fact.
e) the opposition between two facts.
Question 8 – Quotation marks were used to indicate:
a) scientific citations.
b) the interviewees' statements.
c) the most important passages in the text.
d) parts written in informal language.
e) words of foreign origin.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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