Cover of the textbook Performer B1, Vol. 1

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6 - Culture and Competences for the textbook Performer B1, Vol. 1 with authors Marina Spiazzi, Marina Tavella e Margaret Layton from Zanichelli

Question

Answer the questions about the text.

Answer

  1. The children played in the Giant's garden. They felt happy and exclaimed, "How happy we are here!" when they played in the beautiful garden.
  2. When the Giant came back to his castle from a seven-year visit to a friend, he saw children playing in his garden. In response, he became angry and chased them away, claiming the garden as his own.
  3. After the Giant built a high wall to keep the children out, the garden became desolate and stuck in perpetual winter. While the rest of the world experienced the changing seasons, the Giant's garden remained in a state of cold and lifelessness.
  4. One morning, the Giant saw a little boy in a corner of the garden. The boy was so small that he couldn't reach up to the tree and was crying.
  5. The little boy was crying because he was too tiny to reach the branches of the tree in the corner of the garden, where spring had not yet arrived.
  6. The Giant's heart melted with compassion. He went out, took the little boy gently in his hand, and placed him in the tree. As a result, the tree blossomed, and the birds and flowers returned.
  7. The Giant tore down the high wall around his garden, allowing the children to return and play. He realized the error of his selfish ways and embraced kindness and generosity.
  8. When the Giant, in his old age, saw the marks of nails on the little boy's hands and feet, he got angry, thinking someone had harmed the child. However, the child explained that these were the wounds of love, calming the Giant.
  9. At the end of the story, the children found the Giant lying dead under the blossoming tree, covered with white blossoms. The implication is that the Giant had been accepted into a heavenly or paradisiacal place, symbolizing his redemption and the eternal beauty of the garden.

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