Questões BNCC EF08LI06

At the village fête, Ben carried homemade cakes to the table beside the old church. Children played on the green while neighbors bought jam and talked about the summer harvest. At noon, everyone stopped to watch the local brass band.

Explique como dois elementos do trecho revelam costumes ou modos de viver em uma comunidade de língua inglesa. Justifique sua resposta com informações do texto.

Yesterday, I forgot my lunch at home. During the break, Maya shared her sandwich with me. I felt relieved, and I promised to help her with the science project after school.

Como o ponto de vista do narrador ajuda o leitor a compreender o conto?

“Keep the lamp facing the shore,” old Morag told Nessa whenever winter waves covered the path to the harbour. One stormy night, Nessa found a grey seal caught between rocks. As she freed it, the animal dropped a small silver comb. At dawn, a woman wearing the comb knocked at Nessa’s door. “You returned what the sea had trapped,” she said. “Now the sea will remember your kindness.”

The next morning, seals gathered beyond the dangerous rocks, showing the fishers a calmer route. Years later, families still placed a lamp by the window before storms and retold Nessa’s choice to their children.

(Fictional retelling inspired by Scottish selkie folklore.)

Analyze the passage and identify the interpretation that best explains its cultural value as a traditional narrative.

“Every story has ears,” Grandma Imani told Maya during Family Stories Day at the public library. She then retold a Jamaican Anansi tale. Hungry Anansi learned that birds were flying to a feast above the clouds. He borrowed a feather from each bird and asked them to call him “All of You.” At the feast, Anansi announced that the food was for “All of You,” and he ate it alone. The angry birds took back their feathers, so Anansi fell. His children covered him with spiderwebs. Maya laughed when Grandma paused for the listeners to repeat Anansi’s new name. The library recording used English, but Grandma also changed her voice and invited the children to join the tale. The librarian planned to keep the recording alongside elders’ memories.

Evaluate how Maya’s experience connects the narrative to a living cultural tradition. Which comment is best supported by the text?

“Keep the lantern burning,” Auntie Sade told Nia as rain crossed the island. “A traveler may need its light.” Nia wanted to save the last drop of oil for her own family. Yet she placed the lantern by the window.

Before dawn, an old fisherman knocked. Guided through the storm, he brought news: the bridge near the market had fallen. Villagers changed their route and arrived safely. At the next gathering, Auntie Sade began the tale again with the same words: “Keep the lantern burning.” Children answered, “Light is shared.” In this fictional Caribbean retelling, the storyteller pauses after each answer, inviting listeners to repeat it.

Interpret how the repeated phrase and the ending work together. Which museum caption best values this story as cultural heritage?

I first heard Grandmother Maira's sea story on a night when rain shook the shutters. She spoke of Lio, a young fisher who ignored dark clouds because he wanted the largest catch. When his boat disappeared behind the waves, people on shore lit lanterns along the rocks and beat a slow rhythm on a wooden drum. Lio followed the lights home. Grandmother paused and said that, since then, families in the village have kept one lantern ready during the storm season. My cousin asked whether the drum had calmed the sea. Grandmother smiled: “No. The sea keeps its own voice.” Later, as the rain softened, I noticed a lantern glowing in each window along our street.

Analyze the narrative details in the passage. How does Grandmother Maira's story become a form of cultural heritage?

“Do not polish it too much,” Aunt Nessa told Eli, handing him the old brass bell. Its scratches, she said, mattered more than its shine. During Harbor Night, several visitors asked whether they could buy it as a souvenir, but Nessa kept it beside the window. Later, fog covered the bay and the electric beacon stopped working. Eli remembered the stories about sailors listening for the bell near the rocks. He climbed the hill and rang it until the fishing boats changed direction. The next morning, children asked why the bell had so many marks. Nessa replied that every scratch came from a night when someone had found the way home. At the following Harbor Night, the children retold Eli’s story beside the bell.

Analyze the bell’s role in the passage. What does it mainly represent?

What can a street tell you about the time it was written? I opened a cheap, simplified pocket book I had found at a used stall. The story begins with a young clerk walking fast through a crowded London evening.

A thick fog pressed against the windows, turning the gas lamps into pale circles. A driver shouted as his hansom cab splashed through the wet road. The clerk checked his coins twice before stepping into a shop to send a telegram. Inside, he lowered his voice and called the owner “sir,” careful not to break the rules of politeness. When he left, he passed a dark building where poor children waited for bread, and he wondered how anyone could sleep there.

The next page promised “a curious case” that would reach the newspapers by morning.

Interpret the excerpt. Which reading-journal comment best shows appreciation of this narrative as part of English-speaking cultural heritage?