{"id":7675,"date":"2017-08-31T13:40:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T13:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=7675"},"modified":"2017-08-30T15:52:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T15:52:35","slug":"portuguese-listeningreading-practice-sobre-caes-e-gatos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/portuguese-listeningreading-practice-sobre-caes-e-gatos\/","title":{"rendered":"[Portuguese listening\/reading practice] &#8211; Sobre c\u00e3es e gatos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ei, pessoal! Hi, everyone!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This month\u2019s Portuguese listening and reading practice is a text entitled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sobre c\u00e3es e Gatos<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (About Cats and Dogs) by Portuguese comedian Ricard Ara\u00fajo Pereira. It talks about the difference between the two animals and their relation to their owners and humans in general. I hope you like it!<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7676\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7676\" class=\"wp-image-7676 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/08\/RicardoAraujoPereira-350x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/08\/RicardoAraujoPereira-350x231.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/08\/RicardoAraujoPereira.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portuguese comedian Ricardo Ara\u00fajo Pereira<br \/> (photo by Espalhafactos)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Let\u2019s remember our usual steps:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Listen to the audio first. See if you can identify any words and write them down, if you want to.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scroll down and read the text. You can try reading it out loud to practice your pronunciation and speaking skills, or play the audio again and follow as you listen. Read each sentence carefully and see what you can recognize and understand.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Check translated text in italics. What were you able to grasp? Which parts were the most difficult? It&#8217;s a good idea to read the text in Portuguese again now that you know its full meaning.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>1. \u00a0Ou\u00e7a\/ Listen<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Part 1: <\/strong><div class=\"compact_audio_player_wrapper\"><div class=\"sc_player_container1\"><input type=\"button\" id=\"btnplay_69d5faa2afc631.19513421\" class=\"myButton_play\" onClick=\"play_mp3('play','69d5faa2afc631.19513421','https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/08\/ca\u0303es-e-gatos-online-audio-converter.com_.mp3','80','false');show_hide('play','69d5faa2afc631.19513421');\" \/><input type=\"button\"  id=\"btnstop_69d5faa2afc631.19513421\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"myButton_stop\" onClick=\"play_mp3('stop','69d5faa2afc631.19513421','','80','false');show_hide('stop','69d5faa2afc631.19513421');\" \/><div id=\"sm2-container\"><!-- flash movie ends up here --><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 2: <\/strong><div class=\"compact_audio_player_wrapper\"><div class=\"sc_player_container1\"><input type=\"button\" id=\"btnplay_69d5faa2b665b1.63062637\" class=\"myButton_play\" onClick=\"play_mp3('play','69d5faa2b665b1.63062637','https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/08\/ca\u0303es-e-gatos-2.mp3','80','false');show_hide('play','69d5faa2b665b1.63062637');\" \/><input type=\"button\"  id=\"btnstop_69d5faa2b665b1.63062637\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"myButton_stop\" onClick=\"play_mp3('stop','69d5faa2b665b1.63062637','','80','false');show_hide('stop','69d5faa2b665b1.63062637');\" \/><div id=\"sm2-container\"><!-- flash movie ends up here --><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 3:\u00a0<\/strong><div class=\"compact_audio_player_wrapper\"><div class=\"sc_player_container1\"><input type=\"button\" id=\"btnplay_69d5faa2bfdd71.76234930\" class=\"myButton_play\" onClick=\"play_mp3('play','69d5faa2bfdd71.76234930','https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/08\/ca\u0303es-e-gatos-3.mp3','80','false');show_hide('play','69d5faa2bfdd71.76234930');\" \/><input type=\"button\"  id=\"btnstop_69d5faa2bfdd71.76234930\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"myButton_stop\" onClick=\"play_mp3('stop','69d5faa2bfdd71.76234930','','80','false');show_hide('stop','69d5faa2bfdd71.76234930');\" \/><div id=\"sm2-container\"><!-- flash movie ends up here --><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>2. Leia\/ Read<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Sobre c\u00e3es e gatos<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Part 1:\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Voc\u00ea \u00e9 uma gata&#8221; \u00e9 um elogio. &#8220;Voc\u00ea \u00e9 uma cadela&#8221; \u00e9 um insulto \u2013e dos pesados. Aqui est\u00e1 um interessante problema de sem\u00e2ntica zool\u00f3gica. De onde vem a m\u00e1 reputa\u00e7\u00e3o dos c\u00e3es? Nos livros, aparecem quase s\u00f3 para morrer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Baleia do Graciliano Ramos, spoiler alert, leva um tiro. O Argos de Ulisses espera pelo dono durante 20 anos e morre assim que satisfaz o desejo de v\u00ea-lo. Mas os gatos t\u00eam um prest\u00edgio liter\u00e1rio impec\u00e1vel. Nem o Cheshire Cat da Alice nem o gatarr\u00e3o amigo do Diabo em &#8220;O Mestre e Margarida&#8221; levam um tiro \u2013e mereciam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anda por a\u00ed um famoso espet\u00e1culo musical sobre gatos. N\u00e3o ocorre a ningu\u00e9m escrever uma \u00f3pera rock sobre c\u00e3es. Os gatos s\u00e3o protagonistas sofisticados, os c\u00e3es s\u00e3o bobocas sem classe. Quando, h\u00e1 pouco tempo, al\u00e9m dos meus quatro c\u00e3es passei a ter um gato, comecei a perceber a raz\u00e3o do fasc\u00ednio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 2: \u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">De fato, \u00e9 um bicho que nos despreza de uma forma muito elegante. Est\u00e1 evidentemente convencido da sua superioridade em rela\u00e7\u00e3o a n\u00f3s, e \u00e9 capaz de ter raz\u00e3o.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mas, apesar de seduzido pelo gato, mantenho-me firme no meu entusiasmo em rela\u00e7\u00e3o aos c\u00e3es. Os gatos sabem qualquer coisa; os c\u00e3es s\u00e3o t\u00e3o est\u00fapidos como eu \u2013o que lhes d\u00e1 um encanto muito especial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Os gatos parecem ter uma informa\u00e7\u00e3o importante acerca do que \u00e9 isto de estar vivo; os c\u00e3es n\u00e3o fazem ideia do que andam aqui a fazer. Acham quase tudo espantoso, e n\u00e3o t\u00eam vergonha desse maravilhamento constante, apesar de ser t\u00e3o parecido com estupidez. Os c\u00e3es s\u00e3o crian\u00e7as pequenas, os gatos s\u00e3o filhos adolescentes: tamb\u00e9m nos amam, embora com alguma relut\u00e2ncia, e acham mesmo que s\u00e3o independentes, apesar de continuarem a precisar de n\u00f3s para comer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 3:\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Um gato \u00e9 uma fraude ostensiva, uma ironia da natureza: parece um tigre, move-se como um tigre, pensa que \u00e9 um tigre \u2013mas pesa menos de 200 quilos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quando n\u00e3o est\u00e1 a dormir, \u00e9 bastante \u00f3bvio que o meu gato se encontra a planejar o meu homic\u00eddio. Mas de um modo ador\u00e1vel. Vejo os olhos dele, quando me espreita, emboscado atr\u00e1s do computador, e eu pr\u00f3prio come\u00e7o a simpatizar com a ideia de que mere\u00e7o morrer. Em raros momentos de ternura, aproxima-se de mim e lambe o meu nariz com o que parece ser lixa para madeira. \u00c9 carinho e esfolia\u00e7\u00e3o. Amor doloroso. O c\u00e3o \u00e9 o melhor amigo do homem; o gato \u00e9 o melhor inimigo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>About Cats and Dogs<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Part 1:<\/strong> &#8220;You&#8217;re a cat&#8221; is a compliment. &#8220;You&#8217;re a bitch,&#8221; is an insult- and a heavy one. Here is an interesting problem of zoological semantics. Where does the dogs&#8217; bad reputation come from? In books, they appear almost only to die.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The dog Baleia, from Graciliano Ramos, spoiler alert, is shot. Argos from the Odyssey waits for its owner for 20 years and dies as soon as it fulfills the desire to see him. But cats have impeccable literary prestige. Neither Alice&#8217;s Cheshire Cat nor the Devil&#8217;s friend in &#8220;The Master and Margarita&#8221; are shot- although they deserved it.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There&#8217;s a famous musical about cats. It does not occur to anyone to write a rock opera about dogs. Cats are sophisticated protagonists, dogs are classless fools. When, a short time ago, besides my four dogs I got myself a cat, I began to understand the reason for the fascination.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>*Note: in Portuguese, we say &#8220;you&#8217;re a cat&#8221; to say a person is cute<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Part 2:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In fact, it is an animal that despises us in a very elegant way. He is evidently convinced of his superiority to us, and he may be right. But despite being seduced by the cat, I remain firm in my enthusiasm for dogs. Cats know anything; Dogs are as stupid as I am &#8211; which gives them a very special charm.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cats seem to have important information about what it is like to be alive; dogs have no idea what they are doing here. They find almost everything amazing, and they are not ashamed of this constant wonder, though it is so much like stupidity. Dogs are small children, cats are teenagers: they also love us, albeit with some reluctance, and even think they are independent, although they still need us to eat.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Part 3:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A cat is an ostentatious fraud, an irony of nature: it looks like a tiger, moves like a tiger, thinks it is a tiger &#8211; but it weighs less than 200 quilos.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When it is not sleeping, it&#8217;s pretty obvious that my cat is planning my homicide. But in a lovely way. I see it in his eyes as he stalks me, ambushed behind the computer, and I begin to sympathize with the idea that I deserve to die. In rare moments of tenderness, he approaches me and licks my nose with what appears to be sandpaper for wood. It is affection and exfoliation. Painful love The dog is a man&#8217;s best friend; The cat is his best enemy.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/08\/RicardoAraujoPereira-350x231.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/08\/RicardoAraujoPereira-350x231.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2017\/08\/RicardoAraujoPereira.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Ei, pessoal! Hi, everyone! This month\u2019s Portuguese listening and reading practice is a text entitled Sobre c\u00e3es e Gatos (About Cats and Dogs) by Portuguese comedian Ricard Ara\u00fajo Pereira. 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