Ana, padeira no Porto (Ana, a baker in Porto)
QECR A2133 palavras
Ana is a baker in Porto. Her working day starts at three o'clock in the morning, when the city is still dark and quiet.
She always begins with the bread. The dough rests for hours, so she cannot hurry. While the bread is in the oven, she prepares the little cakes with egg cream that people eat for breakfast.
At six the door opens. The first customers are usually taxi drivers and nurses on their way home from the night shift. They are tired and they do not talk much.
Ana finishes at two in the afternoon. Then she goes home and sleeps.
'People think my job is romantic,' she says. 'It is not romantic. It is flour, heat and hours. But I like it: my city has breakfast because I am awake.'
Palavras que talvez não conheças
- bakerpadeiro, padeira
- doughmassa
- ovenforno
- customercliente
- night shiftturno da noite
- flourfarinha
- awakeacordado
Perguntas
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What time does Ana start work?
At three in the morning — Começa às três. Às seis abre a porta ao público e às duas termina.
Ana makes the little cakes before the bread.
False — Falso: she always BEGINS with the bread, e prepara os bolos enquanto o pão está no forno.
The first customers are taxi drivers and ___.
nurses — Taxi drivers and nurses: taxistas e enfermeiras que voltam a casa do turno da noite.
Why can Ana not hurry with the bread?
Because the dough needs hours to rest — A frase liga causa e efeito com so: the dough rests for hours, SO she cannot hurry. Quem manda no tempo é a massa, não ela.
Why are the first customers so tired?
Because they are finishing a night of work — On their way HOME from the night shift: não vão trabalhar, voltam. Passaram a noite toda acordados.
What does Ana mean when she says 'my city has breakfast because I am awake'?
That she is proud: her work makes other people's breakfast possible — Antes diz que o trabalho dela não é romântico, que é farinha, calor e horas. E mesmo assim fá-lo: a frase final explica porque gosta, não que esteja sozinha na cidade.