For today’s reading comprehension, we’re going to read a bit of a bizarre story about a nightclub in São Paulo. Talk about dancing to your own beat! You can also watch the accompanying video here.

Casa noturna promove balada silenciosa com música só nos fones de ouvido

Excerpt: “Uma casa noturna da capital resolveu lançar moda e promover uma balada silenciosa. Nada de som na caixa. As pessoas só ouvem a música nos fones de ouvido. Se você achou muito estranho, tem mais: cada um escolhe a música que quer ouvir.”

Read the full article here

Questions

1. What is different about this nightclub?

2. How many different music channels do the clients have to chose from?

3. Where did this trend originally start?

4. What did the bartenders think?

Answers

1. It’s a “silent” club where instead of playing music on speakers, the partygoers listen to music on headphones.

2. 3

3. Europe

4. They thought it was a bit weird, but they thought it was helpful to be able to be able to hear the partygoers’ drink orders