Text interpretation activity for fourth or fifth year students, about the text “The lazy man's legend”.
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It says that once a man who was the laziest who ever saw himself under heaven and above the earth, when he was born, he didn't even cry, and if he could speak he would have said:
– No crying, then I'll cry.
It wasn't the poor person's fault either, it was the father who made light of it when the midwife scolded him:
– Don't cross your legs, young man, it's no good! It delays the boy to be born and he can grow into sly laziness.
And the fate was fulfilled, the boy grew in the greatest laziness and boredom. No farming, no reading, so much so that one day the boy found himself alone in the family's small farm where nothing was ever planted. The bush grew around the house and he no longer had anything to eat, so he calls the neighbor, who is also his friend, and asks to be buried still alive. The other, at first, did not want to comply with the strange request, but when he remembered that denying favor and desire for a friend gives seven years of bad luck...
And the procession went away, carried there by a few, in the arms of Josefina, her pet hammock, when he passed the house of the richest farmer in town, he took off his hat, as a sign of respect, she asked:
– Who's going there? That God has!
– God doesn't have it yet, young man, you're alive”
And when the farmer learned that it was because he had nothing else to eat, he offered ten sacks of rice. The sluggard raised the brim of his hat and, still from the hammock, he whispered in the man's ear:
– Young man, is this rice pickled and fried?
- It's not! - replied the farmer
– So play the funeral, folks. - said the lazy man
1) What is the title of the text?
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2) What is the main theme of the story?
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3) Who didn't cry at birth? If you could what would he have said when he was born?
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4) Whose fault was it that man was born so lazy? It's because?
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5) What happened to the lazy man's place because he doesn't like to work?
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6) What did the sluggard ask his neighbor and compadre?
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7) What did the farmer do when he learned the reason for the procession?
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8) What was the lazy man's reaction?
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9) When they said that the rice was not picked and fried, what did the lazy man do? What is your opinion about this reaction?
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10) Do you think this story is real? Justify your answer.
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