Juan Maria di Lima

Professor

A return to face-to-face classes at all levels of education in Rio Grande do Norte was announced this week. It’s time for this to happen. We now face the immense challenge of restoring content and mobilizing students. I thought about what the first Portuguese lessons in high school would be like after this obligatory break caused by the coronavirus. I imagined something like the following.

Greeting the students, the teacher dared to ask if anyone liked the Portuguese language. Most said no, which is what the owner expected. So, he decided to resume work after not going to school with the students for so long, with the practice of spelling, as the popular saying goes.

– And what, professor? “We will” do the dictation?

“Let’s go,” the teacher replied.

After the brawl and discontent of the class, a joker in the back of the room asked: – “Should I copy?”

Another joked: “It’s been 10 years since I dictated.

A girl with a concentrated face said, “The teacher will not ‘come’ here to dictate on the first day of class. He has to be playful.

Suddenly, an educated student, changing the subject, said: – I would like to “do an internship …”.

Before he finished, the teacher interrupted him: “Why don’t you ask a question, question, note, or observation?

Student: – Doesn’t it matter? Well, I wanted to give you a hint of the movie “I watched” “two weeks ago.” It is based on “hard facts”.

A colleague mockingly replied: – If this is a fact, then it can only be true.

The group caught fire, and the girl defended the first, complaining about the second: – So, “living together” with you is very difficult. Stop correcting us. You never acknowledge people / efforts /. Nobody will “repeat” here from year to year.

The mocker intervened again: – / Efforts / no. / Effort, ”he said, pronouncing the metaphonic plural correctly.

Another student decided to take part in the defense of a colleague: – Don’t you think that we already have “enough” problems to “sort out” the “small details”?

Someone shouted from behind: – Who’s all right, teacher?

Some words in the plural change the timbre of the stressed vowel from / ô / to / ó /, as well as “egg”, “eggs,” said the master.

Here is a girl complaining: – I’m already “half” tired of this mess. Well, the teacher “could have kicked him out.”

“He makes fools of us,” said the student in the second row. And he continued in a threatening tone: – Do not worry, “let’s meet” during the break and I will figure it out. Do you think you can say what you want just because you are underage?

The teacher quickly interrupted the conversation and said: – Shall we start? Please get ready for the exercise, who bowed his head.

A colleague, who was next to the boy with his head down, categorically declared: “In my personal opinion,” he does not “wake up” like that. You have to pinch “the same”.

The student, who had not yet spoken, decided to ask: “Professor, why don’t you” put this statement aside “?

This was the limit. When the master was getting ready to spell the first word, the student sitting at the first desk asked: – Is this “deliver?”

Educator: – No.

Another student insisted: – Is it worth the mark?

Meanwhile, the shrill and shrill sound of the siren warned that the lesson was over.

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