A very healthy food

A recent study, carried out by the Federal University of Pará, concluded that açaí helps prevent cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attacks and strokes. The fruit also has other benefits for our health: it helps the intestines work well and efficiently. It also delays the aging process in cells. In addition to all these benefits, other studies done recently that the fruit is also good for our sight and stimulates our memory.

(Adapted from www.maganews.com)

GLOSSARY
carried out – realizado
stroke – derrame

Choose the word below that refers to one of the five senses:

A very healthy food

A recent study, carried out by the Federal University of Pará, concluded that açaí helps prevent cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attacks and strokes. The fruit also has other benefits for our health: it helps the intestines work well and efficiently. It also delays the aging process in cells. In addition to all these benefits, other studies done recently that the fruit is also good for our sight and stimulates our memory.

(Adapted from www.maganews.com)

GLOSSARY
carried out – realizado
stroke – derrame

“delays”, is closest in meaning to

The Goose and the Golden egg

There was once Countryman who possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine, for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had laid a beautiful, glittering, Golden egg.

The Countryman took the eggs to the market and soon began to get rich. But he grew impatient with Goose because she gave him only a single Golden egg a day. He was not getting rich fast enough.

Then one day, after he had finished counting his money, he thought that he could get all the Golden eggs at once by killing the Goose and cutting it open. But when he killed her, he didn’t find a single Golden egg and his precious Goose was dead.

(Adapted from “The Goose and the Golden egg”)

GLOSSARY
nest – ninho
glittering – brilhante

“At once”, in bold type in the text, can be replaced by