Text Interpretation in Spanish with Feedback (High School)

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Spanish is part of the curriculum of many schools in Brazil and is, for example, one of the language options for the Enem foreign language test.

How far do your knowledge of this language go?

Can you understand everything you read or hit that worry every time you come across a text?

Can you identify false friends? That is, those words that are very similar in Portuguese and Spanish, but which mean different things.

Practice interpreting texts in Spanish to do well in any test: whether yours at school or in competitions.

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Enem Spanish Questions

1. (Enem/2018)

mayo

What a morning at sea otro nombre de today
In 2011, thousands of young people, deprived of their homes and employees, occupied the squares and streets of several cities in Spain.
And the indignation spread. The good salud turned out to be more contagious than the pests, and the indignant ones crossed the borders depicted on the maps. So they resonated in the world:
They told us "¡a la puta calle! y here we are.
Erase the tele and enciende the calle.

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La llaman crisis, but it's exhausting.
No lack of money: spare thieves.
Los government markets. Yo no los vote.
They make decisions for us, sin us.
If alkyl slave economic.
I'm looking for misdeeds. Has anyone seen them?
If we don't want to dream, we won't let them sleep.

^{GALEANO, E. Los hijos de los dias. Buenos Aires: Siglo Ventiuno. 2012.}

By listing some phrases uttered during protests in Spain, the speaker transcribes, directly, the protesters' demands for

a) provoke them in a veiled way
b) give voice to the popular movement.
c) foster reader engagement.
d) promote dialogue between government and society.
e) raise doubts about the legitimacy of the cause.

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Correct alternative: b) give voice to the popular movement.

The transcription of the sentences made by the enunciator is intended to give voice to the popular movement.

This objective is made explicit through the sentence So they resonated in the world, which in Portuguese means "Thus they echoed in the world" (the voices).

2. (Enem/2018)

On the day when I wanted to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at 5:30 am in the morning to wait for the bouquet in which the bishop was sent. He had dreamed that he had crossed a forest of higuerones from which a forest fell, and for a moment he was happy in his sleep, but when he woke up he felt completely sprinkled with the shit of birds. “He always sleeps with trees,” Plácida Linero, his mother, tells me, evoking 27 years after the details of those ungrateful moons. “Last week he had dreamed that he would go solo on a tin paper plane that would fly without tripping among the almendros,” he tells me. He had a very good reputation as a sure interpreter for his children, even if they were told in ayunas, but he had not been warned no augury augurs in the cases of his son's dreams, not in the other dreams with trees that he was told in the mornings that preceded his death.

^{MÁRQUEZ, G.G. Chronicle of a death announced. Available in: http://biblio3.url.edu.gt. Access on. Jan 2 2015.}

In the introduction of the novel, the narrator rescues memories of Placida Linero related to her son Santiago Nasar. In this introduction, the use of the expression augurio aciago refers to (à)

a) mystical relationship established between Placida and her son Santiago.
b) Santiago's tragic fate, which Placida was unable to foresee in his dreams.
c) mismatch between Santiago's happiness in dreams and his bad luck in reality.
d) Placida's belief in the importance of interpreting dreams to change the future.
e) recurrent presence of dark elements that reveal themselves in Santiago's dreams.

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Correct alternative: b) Santiago's tragic fate, which Placida was unable to foresee in his dreams.

augury augury means bad omen, bad sign.

In the introduction to Gabriel García Marquez's book, the protagonist's mother (Plácida) states that she was unable to interpret the signs of tragedy that were noticed in her son's dreams.

3. (Enem/2016)

stable instability

Those who spend their whole lives striving to achieve a stable thought, with sufficient solidity to avoid uncertainty. seize your skills, all these lessons on how to ensure the future, those that advised us that we would dejar ourselves of trifles poetics and we found a fixed job and etcetera, abuelos, priests, maestros, suegros, banks and insurance companies Libre.

Y the world, this world that has created us, that touching it on the pantalla we believe is transforming the measure of our desire, it is modeling us according to a profitability coefficient, it is teaching us to integrate its metabolism I reflect.

^{FÉRNANDEZ ROJANO, G. Available at: http://diariojaen.es. Accessed on: 23 May 2012.}

The title of the text anticipates the author's opinion by using two contradictory terms that express the meaning of

a) competitiveness and pursuit of profit, which characterize contemporary society.
b) search for financial and emotional stability, which marks the current world.
c) denial of the values defended by previous generations in relation to work.
d) need for personal and professional fulfillment in the current system.
e) permanence of inconstancy in a society marked by continuous changes.

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Correct alternative: e) permanence of inconstancy in a society marked by continuous change.

The meaning of the contradictory words used in the title indicate the author's idea that the inconstancy of the changes that took place in society (instability) were permanent (constant).

4. (Enem/2015)

emigrants

In every emigrant, there are possible vital attitudes: join the line of considering your experience as a pasajera adventure, living mentally and emotionally in the country of origin, cultivating its nostalgia, and defining the present reality by comparing it with the world that exists wanted; the other is to live the present as it comes, project it in the future, cut roots and dominate nostalgia, merge in the new culture, learn it and assimilate it. The personal drama of the emigrant resides in the moment that it is never possible to choose this choice in absolute terms and, just like el mestizo, he feels part of the worlds without integrating completely into one of them with exclusion of the other.

^{DEL CASTILLO, G. Ç. Hispanic America (1492-1892). In: DE LARA, M. T. History of Spain. Barcelona: Labor, 1985.}

The text presents a reflection on the condition of the immigrant, who, for the author, has to deal with the dilemma of

a) verification of its existence in between.
b) instability of life in another country.
c) absence of references from the past.
d) appropriation of the values of the other.
e) break with the country of origin.

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Correct alternative: a) verification of its existence in between.

The author considers that every immigrant lives in a climate of duality with regard to the life they had in their place of origin and the new life in their new country.

in sentences feel part of the worlds and case is never possible this choice in terms absolutes, the idea of how difficult it is for an immigrant to establish a union between their two universes becomes explicit.

5. (Enem/2018)

How to manage the linguistic diversity in the classroom?

Learning languages is one of the demands of society in the school: students who complete it schooling with a good knowledge of at least three curricular languages: Catalan, Spanish and English (French, Portuguese...).

The methodology that promotes integrated language learning in the school relationships between the different languages: the best teaching of a language focuses on the best of all them too. It is about educating in and for linguistic and cultural diversity.

Therefore, the V Day of Good Practices of Multilingual Management, to be held in Barcelona, will debate on the management of multilingualism in the class. The objective is to disseminate proposals for integrated language learning and present practical experiences in managing the linguistic diversity present in the classes.

^{Available at www.10.gencat.cat. Accessed on: 15 sep. 2010 (adapted).}

In the region of Catalonia, Spain, two official languages coexist: Catalan and Spanish. In addition to these, other languages are taught in schools. According to the text, to manage the linguistic variety in classes, it is necessary.

a) expand the number of languages offered to enrich the content.
b) promote the study of different languages and cultures to attract students.
c) privilege the study of mother tongues to value regional aspects.
d) explore the relationships between the studied languages to promote diversity.
e) discuss practices on multilingualism to better train language teachers.

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Correct alternative: d) explore the relationships between the studied languages to promote diversity

The text states that the methodology that promotes integrated language learning takes into account the relationships between different languages.

The excerpts "The methodology that promotes the integrated learning of languages in the school has a relationship between the different languages (…) It's about educating and para la diversidad linguística y cultural” emphasize the idea that establishing a link between different languages influences the management of variety. linguistics.