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Um sábado no Ver-o-Peso
A diary entry from Belém: the writer and an aunt take the bus to the Ver-o-Peso market, the writer tries bacuri, they buy fish and tucupi, eat fried fish with açaí the Pará way and come back by taxi in the afternoon rain.
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Hauptaussage
1. What is this diary entry about?
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A Saturday at the Ver-o-Peso market in Belém with the writer's aunt: shopping, a new fruit and lunch.
Detail
2. What did the writer think of the bacuri?
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The taste was a bit strange, but the writer liked it.
Detail
3. Why did they go home by taxi?
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Because it started to rain hard.
Schlussfolgerung
4. Does the writer live in Belém? How can you tell?
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Probably not: the writer goes with an aunt, the fruit is new to them, they buy tucupi to take to their mother and plan to visit the theatre.
Wichtige Wörter
- o Ver-o-Pesohistoric market on the riverfront in Belém
- a beira do rioriverside, river bank
- tem de tudohas a bit of everything
- as ervasherbs
- o bacuriAmazonian fruit with sweet white pulp
- o tucupiyellow broth made from wild cassava, typical of Pará
- a farinhaWortcassava flour, eaten with meals
- do jeito paraensethe way people from Pará do it
- chover forteto rain hard