LÍNGUA INGLESA

Esopo era um contador de histórias grego que viveu por volta de 600 a.C.. Suas histórias ou fábulas (histórias simples usadas para nos ensinar lições de moral) ainda hoje são apreciadas por pessoas de todo o mundo. Talvez você já tenha ouvido essa história em sua própria língua. Leia a fábula e depois responda às questões de compreensão que se seguem.

THE SCORPION AND THE FROG

There once was a scorpion that was on the edge of a river, when vegetation margin began to burn. He was desperate, because if he jumped in the water, drowned and die if he stayed where he was, die burned. The scorpion saw a frog was preparing to jump in the river and thus get rid of the fire. Asked him, then, that the transport on the back to the other side. The frog replied that it would not at all what he was asking, because it could give you a sting, leading to his death by poisoning. The scorpion replied that frog need to be guided by logic, he could not give you a sting, because if the frog died, he would die, why would drown. The frog said the scorpion was right and agreed to take him to the other side. In the middle of the river, the scorpion stings the frog. This, feeling the action of the poison, turns to that and says that just like to understand why he did it the sting, since the act was also detrimental to the scorpion. This then replies that simply could not deny his nature.                      
                                  (Tradução de Alessandra M. B. Reis, 2013)
                       

VEJA UM VÍDEO DE UMA VERSÃO DA FÁBULA “O ESCORPIÃO E O SAPO” EM LÍNGUA INGLESA:

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H4knv_KsPk)

EXERCÍCIOS DE INTERPRETAÇÃO TEXTUAL

Responda as questões abaixo:

1. O que o escorpião diz ao sapo que não faria?

2. Por que o sapo concorda em levar o escorpião através do rio?
3. O que o escorpião faz para o sapo no meio do rio?
4. Que desculpa é que o escorpião usa depois que pica o sapo?
5. Qual é a moral desta história?