Activity of text interpretation, aimed at seventh-year students, about the handshake. Do you know the origin of this gesture? And their meanings throughout history? Let's find out? To do this, read the text carefully. Who invented the handshake? Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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The act is an ancient ritualistic gesture still in vogue. Understand the origin of this custom
Egyptian hieroglyphs are the oldest inscriptions that record the handshake. It was represented as the way in which a God gave his power to Pharaoh, representing him on earth. Hieroglyphs mean the verb “to give”. Shaking someone else's right hand is a contemporary ritual. As it is practiced all the time, it somehow lost the sense of union between two people for a common purpose. But it still means respect, consideration and friendship.
In Ancient Greece, around the 5th century BC. C., it was tradition, shortly before the Olympic Games, for an emissary to travel through the cities announcing the ekcheiria (the “handshake”), or truce, a sacred moment when even those at war should keep their arms to compete peacefully in the sport. And wars were actually stopped. In the Roman Empire, the habit of hiding a dagger in one's sleeve became so popular that a cautious salute developed, in which the hands clasped each other's wrists. It became the standard Empire greeting.
Coded handshakes are a way to recognize another member of a secret society. When reaching out, Masons, for example, touch the wrist of their companion with their index finger. “In the modern world, the greeting by shaking hands has become universal due to the dominance of Western culture”, says Unicamp anthropologist Pedro Paulo Funari. The most common of greetings from the East is to bow to the one greeted. Even today, among Islamic radicals, it is forbidden to shake hands between men and women who are not related by blood, under the punishment of flogging in a public square.
Important treaties were sealed with the salute, such as the peace agreement between the prime minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 1993 under the eye of US President Bill Clinton at Camp David. And it created unusual and embarrassing situations, such as the warm handshake that Venezuelan Hugo Chávez gave Barack Obama in 2009, and the equally strange handshake between Donald Trump and Obama.
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Question 1 - “The act is an ancient ritualistic gesture still in vogue”. What act does the text refer to?
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Question 2 - In the passage “Understand the origin of this custom”, the author of the text:
( ) makes an invitation.
( ) gives advice.
( ) expresses an order.
Question 3 - According to the text, the handshake emerged:
( ) in Egypt.
( ) in Ancient Greece.
( ) in the Roman Empire.
Question 4 – According to the text, the handshake "in a way lost the sense of union between two people for a common purpose", because:
( ) “it is a contemporary ritual”.
( ) “it is practiced all the time”.
( ) “it still means respect, consideration and friendship.”
Question 5 - In the segment “[…] the ekcheiria (the “handshake”), or truce […]”, the author of the text:
( ) evaluates the expression “ekcheiria”.
( ) explains the expression “ekcheiria”.
( ) characterizes the expression “ekcheiria”.
Question 6 – In “In the Roman Empire, the habit of hiding a dagger in the sleeve became so popular that a cautious greeting developed […]”, the term “that” indicates:
( ) why the habit of hiding a dagger in one's sleeve has become popular.
( ) the purpose of the habit of hiding a dagger in one's sleeve has become popular.
( ) the consequence of the habit of hiding a dagger in one's sleeve becoming popular.
Question 7 – In the part “In the modern world, the handshake greeting has become universal through the dominance of Western culture”, the quotation marks highlight:
( ) a speech by someone else.
( ) an opinion of the author of the text.
( ) the main information in the text.
Question 8 – The text used the adjective "warm" to characterize the handshake:
( ) between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
( ) between Venezuelan Hugo Chávez and Barack Obama.
( ) between Donald Trump and Barack Obama.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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