{"id":752,"date":"2010-02-03T09:30:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T13:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=723"},"modified":"2010-02-03T09:30:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T13:30:50","slug":"reading-comprehension-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/reading-comprehension-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Comprehension Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re going to do a reading comprehension exercise with a travel story from <em>Estad\u00e3o<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.estadao.com.br\/noticias\/suplementos,heranca-colonial-com-aroma-de-cafe,505169,0.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Heran\u00e7a colonial com aroma de caf\u00e9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Click above to read the full article]<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Atr\u00e1s da imponente portaria surge uma casa grande marcada por uma fileira de janelas coloniais azuis perfeitamente retangulares na fachada. Heran\u00e7a de um tempo em que as economias do a\u00e7\u00facar e do caf\u00e9 movimentavam e levavam prosperidade ao interior do Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo. E proporcionavam a forma\u00e7\u00e3o de um acervo de m\u00f3veis, senzalas, capelas, terreiros e engenhos.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Comprehension questions:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1. Where is the attraction located in Brazil?<\/p>\n<p>2. What did the building used to be? What has it been converted into?<\/p>\n<p>3. Why were the homes built without porches during the sugar era?<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 Who was the original owner of the property?<\/p>\n<p>5. Is the attraction permanent or temporary?<\/p>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re going to do a reading comprehension exercise with a travel story from Estad\u00e3o. Heran\u00e7a colonial com aroma de caf\u00e9 [Click above to read the full article] &#8220;Atr\u00e1s da imponente portaria surge uma casa grande marcada por uma fileira de janelas coloniais azuis perfeitamente retangulares na fachada. Heran\u00e7a de um tempo em que as&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/reading-comprehension-practice\/\">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":[1851],"tags":[1949,2031,2342,2447,379363,379357],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-learning","tag-brazil","tag-comprehension","tag-newspaper","tag-reading","tag-travel","tag-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","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=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}