Amado,Clove and Cinnamon
There are writers I admire and writers I love. I both admired and love Jorge Amando. Although a revolutionary ( he was a Communist in his youth), deep inside he was actually a conversative. He was a conservative in his love for his country,family and the Portugueselanguage as we speak it In Brazil. He was a conservative revolutionary. *A conservative is someone who preserves, defends and shelters whatever is in danger of becoming extinct. Well, Jorge Amado loved his homeland and wanted to protect it from invaders and colonizers.He wanted Brazil to be free; he wanted the Amazon - its trees,its birds, its animals - left infact. Jorge Amado loved nature,with a flaming, passionate love that others reserve for religion. *He was also a true believer in Brazil: fascinated by the tropics and always in love with Afro-indigenous traditions. That´s another way of saying tha the love Bahia, his home state, wich was also the cradle of the country and home to its early childhood. For bahia is where it all began.Jorge Amado Stongly opposed all kinds of colonialism. He wanted to write abou his own people, in their own words and in the simplelanguage they used. The characters in his are based on ordinary folk - fishermen, prostitutes,sailors and tramps - people who need no pompus philosophy in order to live their lives. For them, there is only fate. *Jorge Amado also loved Castro ALves, a Brazilian Romantic poet who lived in the 19th century. and wrote socially engaged poetry against slavery. In fact one of his verses can serve as Jorge Amado´s motto: " Freedom belongs to the people,just as the sky belongs to the condor".

No título do texto há um jogo de palavras que tem como base o nome de um romance de Jorge Amado. Que romance é esse?_________ Por que o autor é apresentado com tendo " sonhos radicais"?
Que exemplos são dados pela autora do texto para que ela o considere, na verdade, um conservador? Complete the sentences with the correct word.
1) Greece is known as the ___________ of democray.
a) danger b) language c) dream d) cradle e) sky
2) In Brazil ____ was abolished on May 13,1888.
a) freedom b) homeland c) nature d) slavery e) heart
3) Jorge Amado ______loved and wrote abou Bahia.
a) just as b) both c) childhood d) whatever e) against
4) Both___ are used in cooking to give more flavor to sweet foods.
a) clove and cinnamon b) trees and birds c) invaders and colonizers d) dream and fate e) poetry and novels
5) An umbrella ___ you from the rain.
a) shelters b) admires c) opposes d) dream and fate e) poetry and novels
6) _________my friend is from Bahia, she doesn´t like axé music.
a) both b) although c) in fact d) in order to e) Only
7) The believe significa acreditar /crer. Encontre no texto o substantivo que corresponde a "crente".
Encontre também os substantivos do quadro abaixo, forme os substantivos que corresponde a: Escritor invasor colonizador agora, com os verbos do quadro abaixo, forme os substantivos que correspondem a:
to teach / to paly / to rearch / to read
Jogador _______ pesquisador______ leitor ______ professor _____
8) Encontre no texto as palavras que completam as locuções abaixo, orientando-se correspondentes em português:
a) _________engaged poetry (poesia socialmente engajada)
b) ________believer (verdadeiro crente)
c) simple_______ (linguagem simples)
d) early __________ (primeira infância)
e) __________state (estado natal)
f) ______philosophy (filosofia pomposa)
g) radical ____________ (sonhos radicais)
h) conservative ________ (coração conservador)
i) ordinary __________ (gente comum)
j) __________love (amor apaixonado)
k) flaming _____________ (amor ardente)