POSTAGEM 2020 – ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL E ENSINO MÉDIO – CURSO REGULAR

Aluno: Ingrid Rayanne Pereira da Silva

N°:12

Turma: 1 ANO – FIN 1AM/FIN 1BM Curso: ENSINO MÉDIO

Professor: NANCY Disciplina: INGLÊS SEMANA: 31/08 A

05/09
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José Saramago
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1998
Written over the author's signature and translated into English by Fernando Rodrigues and Tim Crosfield

I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo,
on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon. My
parents were José de Sousa and Maria da Piedade. José de Sousa would have been my own
name had not the Registrar, on his own initiative, added the nickname by which my father's family
was known in the village: Saramago. I should add that saramago is a wild herbaceous plant,
whose leaves in those times served at need as nourishment for the poor. Not until the age of
seven, when I had to present an identification document at primary school, was it realized that my
full name was José de Sousa Saramago...
This was not, however, the only identity problem to which I was fated at birth. Though I had come
into the world on 16 November 1922, my official documents show that I was born two days later,
on the 18th. It was thanks to this petty fraud that my family escaped from paying the fine for not
having registered my birth at the proper legal time.
Maybe because he had served in World War I, in France, as an artillery soldier, and had known
other surroundings from those of the village, my father decided in 1924 to leave farm work and
move with his family to Lisbon, where he started as a policeman, for which job were required no
more "literary qualifications" (a common expression then...) than reading, writing, and arithmetic.
A few months after moving into the capital, my brother Francisco, two years older, died. Though
our living conditions had improved a little after moving, we were never going to be well-off.
I was already 13 or 14 when we moved, at last, to our own – but very tiny – house: till then we had
lived in parts of houses, with other families. During all this time, and until I came of age, I spent
many, and very often quite long, periods in the village with my mother's parents, Jerónimo
Meirinho and Josefa Caixinha…
I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes
and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year. Then I was moved up to the grammar
school where I stayed two years, with excellent marks in the first year, not so good in the second,
but was well liked by classmates and teachers, even being elected (I was then 12...) treasurer of
the Students' Union...
From: nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1998/saramago-autobio.html
Sobre o gênero textual:
A que gênero textual pertence o texto?
___ autobiography______________________________
Quais aspectos e informações você observou no gênero textual?
___Falar em primeira pessoa

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Quem é a personalidade abordada no texto e por que ele foi tão importante?

_____ José de Sousa Saramago foi m escritor português. Saramago foi considerado o
responsável pelo reconhecimento internacional da prosa em língua
portuguesa.____________________________________________________________________
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Escreva abaixo três (3) sentenças no “simple past”.

__ I was born
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__ when we moved
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__own name had
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Leitura scanning
1. José Saramago was born
a) in a big city. 2. Saramago
b) in a rich family. a) is a plant.
c) in Brazil. b) was his father’s last name.
d) in the province of Ribatejo in Portugal. c) was his mother’s last name.
e) in an excellent hospital. d) was his grandfather’s last name.
e) was his grandmother’s last name.
3. José Saramago realized his full name 7. José Saramago’s brother, Francisco,
a) when he was a baby. a) is a writer too.
b) in 1922. b) was a soldier.
c) at home. c) died in Lisbon.
d) with his mother. d) was younger.
e) at the age of seven. e) had a job.

4. José Saramago’s real date of birth is 8. When he was 13 or 14, the family
a) 16 November 1922. a) disintegrated.
b) 18 November 1922. b) had financial problems.
c) not known. c) got very rich.
d) 1924. d) moved to their own house.
e) a holiday in Portugal. e) suffered from a natural disaster.

5. Saramago’s father 9. As a student, Saramago

a) died in 1922. a) was very bad.
b) had been a soldier in World War I. b) had difficulties.
c) was a teacher. c) was not popular.
d) loved farm work. d) had problems with his colleagues.
e) was an intellectual. e) was quite good.

6. In 1924 his family 10. This text is part of

a) went to war. a) an encyclopedia entry.
b) moved to Lisbon. b) a dictionary entry.
c) had problems with the police. c) an autobiography.
d) went to school. d) a novel.
e) took a long trip. e) a detective story