{"id":1241,"date":"2010-06-21T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2010-06-21T02:43:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T02:43:03","slug":"reading-comprehension-cala-boca-galvao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/reading-comprehension-cala-boca-galvao\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Comprehension: Cala boca, Galv\u00e3o!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we&#8217;re going to read about a Brazilian phenomenon on Twitter &#8211; a mixture of World Cup enthusiasm and very amusing opportunism. Click the link below to read the story, and then try to answer the questions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gazetaweb.globo.com\/v2\/noticias\/texto_completo.php?c=207289\">Galv\u00e3o Bueno: Campe\u00e3o do Twitter<\/a>, Gazeta Web<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt: <em>&#8220;Poucos minutos depois de a cerim\u00f4nia de abertura da Copa do Mundo  come\u00e7ar, a competi\u00e7\u00e3o j\u00e1 tinha um vencedor: Galv\u00e3o Bueno. O locutor da  TV Globo foi o primeiro lugar entre os assuntos mais comentados no  Twitter no mundo inteiro no dia da festa e, pelo menos at\u00e9 quinta-feira,  n\u00e3o sa\u00eda dos dez mais. Embalada num truque de apar\u00eancia ecol\u00f3gica, a  frase \u201cCala boca, Galv\u00e3o!\u201d ganhou o mundo e foi repetida milh\u00f5es de  vezes, numa corrente para a frente que levou Galv\u00e3o \u00e0s p\u00e1ginas do New  York Times e do El Pa\u00eds.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. What did many foreigners think the &#8220;Cala boca Galvao&#8221; phrase meant?<\/p>\n<p>2. How many people viewed the Galvao birds video (in Portuguese)?<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 How did Galv\u00e3o react to the &#8220;Cala boca, Galv\u00e3o&#8221; campaign?<\/p>\n<p>4. When did Galv\u00e3o begin his broadcasting career?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. They thought it was a campaign to save the endangered Amazonian Galvao bird, although the bird was completely fictional.<\/p>\n<p>2. 700,000 [setecentos mil]<\/p>\n<p>3. At first he was irritated, but then he joined in on the joke and even discussed it on air<\/p>\n<p>4. 1974<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we&#8217;re going to read about a Brazilian phenomenon on Twitter &#8211; a mixture of World Cup enthusiasm and very amusing opportunism. Click the link below to read the story, and then try to answer the questions. Galv\u00e3o Bueno: Campe\u00e3o do Twitter, Gazeta Web Excerpt: &#8220;Poucos minutos depois de a cerim\u00f4nia de abertura da Copa&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/reading-comprehension-cala-boca-galvao\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1845],"tags":[9604,379370,2447,2603,2637],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-brazilian-news","tag-galvao","tag-learning","tag-reading","tag-twitter","tag-world-cup"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}