Questões de Inglês - Reading/Writing - Tale

TEXTO PARA A QUESTÃO

THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS

    This is the tale of a storyteller: Shahrazad, a girl who married King Shahryar. How did she happen to marry a king?

    Well, this is how it all began:

    King Shahryar was once married to a woman that was unfaithful to him during his absences. As a revenge, he killed her and all her lovers. From that time on, he had started to hate every woman in the world and because of this, he married and killed a new wife each day, until there were no more candidates.

    It was when Shahrazad, the eldest daughter of the king’s vizier, imagined a plan to save herself and all the king’s future wives. She asked her father to give her in marriage to the king.

    Each evening she used to tell her husband a different story, leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. The stories were so delightful and entertaining, and the king was so anxious to hear the end, that he felt unable to execute Shahrazad. At last, he fell in love with her, abandoned his cruel plan, and they could finally live their love happily ever after.

Adaptado de: MORAES, Liani. Love Stories. São Paulo: Atual, 1997.

Vocabulário:

- tale: conto, história;

- absence: ausência;

- to marry: casar;

- unfaithful: infiel;

- revenge: vingança;

- to hate: odiar;

- the eldest: o/a mais velho/a;

- vizier: vizir (ministro árabe);

- delightful: delicioso, encantador;

- entertaining: divertido, interessante;

- anxious: ansioso.

TEXTO PARA A QUESTÃO

THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS

    This is the tale of a storyteller: Shahrazad, a girl who married King Shahryar. How did she happen to marry a king?

    Well, this is how it all began:

    King Shahryar was once married to a woman that was unfaithful to him during his absences. As a revenge, he killed her and all her lovers. From that time on, he had started to hate every woman in the world and because of this, he married and killed a new wife each day, until there were no more candidates.

    It was when Shahrazad, the eldest daughter of the king’s vizier, imagined a plan to save herself and all the king’s future wives. She asked her father to give her in marriage to the king.

    Each evening she used to tell her husband a different story, leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. The stories were so delightful and entertaining, and the king was so anxious to hear the end, that he felt unable to execute Shahrazad. At last, he fell in love with her, abandoned his cruel plan, and they could finally live their love happily ever after.

Adaptado de: MORAES, Liani. Love Stories. São Paulo: Atual, 1997.

Vocabulário:

- tale: conto, história;

- absence: ausência;

- to marry: casar;

- unfaithful: infiel;

- revenge: vingança;

- to hate: odiar;

- the eldest: o/a mais velho/a;

- vizier: vizir (ministro árabe);

- delightful: delicioso, encantador;

- entertaining: divertido, interessante;

- anxious: ansioso.

TEXTO PARA A QUESTÃO

THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS

    This is the tale of a storyteller: Shahrazad, a girl who married King Shahryar. How did she happen to marry a king?

    Well, this is how it all began:

    King Shahryar was once married to a woman that was unfaithful to him during his absences. As a revenge, he killed her and all her lovers. From that time on, he had started to hate every woman in the world and because of this, he married and killed a new wife each day, until there were no more candidates.

    It was when Shahrazad, the eldest daughter of the king’s vizier, imagined a plan to save herself and all the king’s future wives. She asked her father to give her in marriage to the king.

    Each evening she used to tell her husband a different story, leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. The stories were so delightful and entertaining, and the king was so anxious to hear the end, that he felt unable to execute Shahrazad. At last, he fell in love with her, abandoned his cruel plan, and they could finally live their love happily ever after.

Adaptado de: MORAES, Liani. Love Stories. São Paulo: Atual, 1997.

Vocabulário:

- tale: conto, história;

- absence: ausência;

- to marry: casar;

- unfaithful: infiel;

- revenge: vingança;

- to hate: odiar;

- the eldest: o/a mais velho/a;

- vizier: vizir (ministro árabe);

- delightful: delicioso, encantador;

- entertaining: divertido, interessante;

- anxious: ansioso.

TEXTO PARA A QUESTÃO

THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS

    This is the tale of a storyteller: Shahrazad, a girl who married King Shahryar. How did she happen to marry a king?

    Well, this is how it all began:

    King Shahryar was once married to a woman that was unfaithful to him during his absences. As a revenge, he killed her and all her lovers. From that time on, he had started to hate every woman in the world and because of this, he married and killed a new wife each day, until there were no more candidates.

    It was when Shahrazad, the eldest daughter of the king’s vizier, imagined a plan to save herself and all the king’s future wives. She asked her father to give her in marriage to the king.

    Each evening she used to tell her husband a different story, leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. The stories were so delightful and entertaining, and the king was so anxious to hear the end, that he felt unable to execute Shahrazad. At last, he fell in love with her, abandoned his cruel plan, and they could finally live their love happily ever after.

Adaptado de: MORAES, Liani. Love Stories. São Paulo: Atual, 1997.

Vocabulário:

- tale: conto, história;

- absence: ausência;

- to marry: casar;

- unfaithful: infiel;

- revenge: vingança;

- to hate: odiar;

- the eldest: o/a mais velho/a;

- vizier: vizir (ministro árabe);

- delightful: delicioso, encantador;

- entertaining: divertido, interessante;

- anxious: ansioso.

TEXTO PARA A QUESTÃO

THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS

    This is the tale of a storyteller: Shahrazad, a girl who married King Shahryar. How did she happen to marry a king?

    Well, this is how it all began:

    King Shahryar was once married to a woman that was unfaithful to him during his absences. As a revenge, he killed her and all her lovers. From that time on, he had started to hate every woman in the world and because of this, he married and killed a new wife each day, until there were no more candidates.

    It was when Shahrazad, the eldest daughter of the king’s vizier, imagined a plan to save herself and all the king’s future wives. She asked her father to give her in marriage to the king.

    Each evening she used to tell her husband a different story, leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. The stories were so delightful and entertaining, and the king was so anxious to hear the end, that he felt unable to execute Shahrazad. At last, he fell in love with her, abandoned his cruel plan, and they could finally live their love happily ever after.

Adaptado de: MORAES, Liani. Love Stories. São Paulo: Atual, 1997.

Vocabulário:

- tale: conto, história;

- absence: ausência;

- to marry: casar;

- unfaithful: infiel;

- revenge: vingança;

- to hate: odiar;

- the eldest: o/a mais velho/a;

- vizier: vizir (ministro árabe);

- delightful: delicioso, encantador;

- entertaining: divertido, interessante;

- anxious: ansioso.

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  A certain old gentleman was very unhappy about modern education, and thought that young people nowadays were not being taught the importance of knowing the difference between right and wrong

  One day he was taking a walk in the park near his home when he saw some young boys standing around a small cat. The old gentleman went up to the boys and asked them what was happening. One of the boys said to him, “We’re having a contest. We’re telling lies, and the one who tells the biggest one gets to keep the cat.”

  The old gentleman thought that this was a good opportunity to teach the boys a useful lesson, so he said to them, “I’ve never told a lie in my life.” All at once there was a great shout from all the boys, and they said, “You’ve won! You can take the cat!”

(L. A. Hill. Advanced Anecdotes in American English, 1981. Adaptado.)