Interpretation activity, aimed at seventh-year students, of the text Being an Indian is… It is a review of the book “Father, what is Indian?”, written by Pedro Sarmento! In it, readers are invited to learn about different indigenous traditions, through the dialogue between father and daughter! Want to know more about the book? So be sure to read the review and then answer interpretive questions about it!
This Portuguese language activity is available for download in an editable Word template, ready to print in PDF and also the completed activity.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read the text about the book “Father, what is Indian?”, written by Pedro Sarmento. Then, she answers the proposed questions:
Follow a father-daughter dialogue about indigenous traditions
The main character of this story, a very inquisitive girl, decided to ask her father a lot of questions about the indigenous peoples of Brazil. Where they live? How do they live? What do you like to do? What do you like to eat? She discovered so many new things…
For example: that the Indians like to play sports, draw, sing and dance, like you and me, but in their own way. There is a people called Ashaninka – who live partly in Brazil and partly in Peru – who love to draw a snake, which is apparently simple, but it takes them a whole day to finish. Because? In their culture, if the design is wrong, it is believed that the snake appears to bite them. A pretty painful way to complain, isn't it?
Being an Indian, explained his father, is not just having customs that are the same or very different from ours, walking naked or building huts. Being an Indian is so much more! It is respecting the land where you live and your ancestors, the Indians who have died and who left their examples of life.
After so much conversation, the girl also discovered that every Brazilian is a bit Indian… What is this story? You will discover if you follow this beautiful dialogue between father and daughter!
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Question 1 - The text above is:
a) a short story
b) a legend
c) a news
d) a review
Question 2 - In the initial passage of the text, the word "very" was used to:
a) intensify a way of being of the protagonist of the story.
b) explain a way of being of the protagonist of the story.
c) criticize a way of being of the protagonist of the story.
d) a way of being of the protagonist of the story.
Question 3 - Identify the fact that is the common thread in the story of the book “Father, what is an Indian?”:
A.
Question 4 – When the girl asks “How do they live?”, she wants to know:
a) the environment in which indigenous peoples live.
b) the place where indigenous peoples live.
c) the way indigenous peoples live.
d) the instrument with which indigenous peoples live.
Question 5 - The text above presents a curiosity about the indigenous people called Ashaninka. Tell it:
A.
Question 6 – Reread this fragment carefully:
"Being an Indian, explained the father, is not just having customs that are the same or very different from ours, walk naked or ramp up hollow. Being an Indian is so much more! É to respect the land in which they live and their ancestors, the Indians who have died and who let your examples of life.”
The verbs, underlined above, indicate:
a) actions of the Indian.
b) Indian states.
c) attributes of the Indian.
d) ways of being of the Indian.
Question 7 – What is the purpose of whoever wrote the text?
a) advise the reader.
b) convince the reader.
c) instruct the reader.
d) inform the reader.
Question 8 – The purpose of the text, indicated above, is explained in the excerpt:
a) “There is a people called Ashaninka – who live partly in Brazil and partly in Peru […]”
b) "A very painful way to complain, isn't it?"
c) “Being an Indian, explained the father, is not just having customs that are the same or very different from ours […]”
d) "You discover if you follow this beautiful dialogue between father and daughter!"
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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