Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, about the change. In it, the narrator tells of the move from the countryside to the city, which she went through with her family. To do so, it makes comparisons between the two environments, always using “there” and “here”. Are we going to reflect on this change? So, read the text carefully and then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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Read the text carefully. Then answer the questions about it:
We came to town and brought everything we had: cans of plants, about five chickens in a chest, a bench, beds, a wardrobe without a door. We put everything in a truck. A boy of mine came holding the puppy. The parrot also came.
They had told us there in the countryside that the city has everything: work, workshop, hospital, school, bus. Where we lived we couldn't stay any longer. It was just weeding, harvesting, working for the farmers earning misery. So we decided to change.
Here life is not easy. I got a job at the factory and I control the machines. I do the same thing every day, all day long. It's tiring to use the machines in the same way, and if we get distracted, we lose our fingers.
I earn little and I have to live where the rent is cheap. The house is very simple and has a piece of land where we planted some tea herbs, cabbage, green scent. Money can't buy much; even little boys work. Sometimes I think about going back to the countryside. But here my children can study, there is a very hardworking one who works in the supermarket and is already in eighth grade. In the countryside, life is quiet, there is a lot of nature, there is no danger of robbery. But life is only good for those who own the land. There our life has no hope. It seems that no one cares about the rural people.
RODRIGUES, Rosicler Martins. "Brazilian cities". Sao Paulo. Modern Ed – 1992.
Question 1 - The text read is entitled “The change”. After careful reading, identify the change that the narrator refers to:
Question 2 - Point out the passage that presents the reason for the change, identified in the previous question, of the narrator and her family:
a) "It was just weeding, harvesting, working for the farmers earning misery."
b) “I found work at the factory and control the machines.”
c) "I earn little and I have to live where the rent is cheap."
d) “Money can't buy a lot […]”
Question 3 - The narrator refers to the farm, where she lived with her family, in the excerpt:
a) "Here life is not easy."
b) “[…] a piece of land where we planted some tea herbs […]”
c) “But here my children can study […]”
d) "There our life has no hope."
Question 4 – The narrator of the text exposes an opinion in the fragment:
a) “We came to the city and brought everything we had […]”
b) “They had told us in the countryside that the city has everything […]”
c) "I do the same thing every day, all day long."
d) "But life is only good for those who own the land."
Question 5 - In the sentence "[…] if if you get distracted, you lose your fingers.”, the underlined word expresses:
a) an assumption made by the narrator.
b) a doubt exposed by the narrator.
c) a recommendation given by the narrator.
d) a conclusion presented by the narrator.
Question 6 – In the prayer “The house is very simple […]”, the word “well”:
a) defines the characteristic of the house.
b) explains the characteristic of the house.
c) enhances the character of the house.
d) complements the characteristic of the house.
Question 7 – In the segment “Sometimes I think about going back to the countryside. But here my children can study […]”, the term “But” indicates:
a) one fact that adds to another.
b) a fact that is the cause of the other.
c) one fact that compensates for the other.
d) one fact that alternates with another.
Question 8 – “It seems that no one cares about the rural people”. In view of the meaning of the verb "liga", it can be said that this period of the text could be written in this way:
a) "It seems that no one trusts the rural people."
b) "It seems that no one understands the rural people."
c) "It seems that no one talks to the people of the countryside."
d) "It seems that no one cares about the people of the countryside."
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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