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- Engagement:

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- This is a very popular saying also in Brazil. What proverb is this?

 

- Ladies and gentlemen…:

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- The poem “If” was written in 1895 by Rudyard Kipling. Pay attention to its message.

 

- Read it!:

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,If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

 

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;

If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

 

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

 

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,

And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

(KIPLING, 1895, available in www.poets.org).

 

- Pay attention to…:

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- How can you compare the message of the poem to the message of the song? Are they similar in content?

- And what about structure? Are they the same?

- Why do you think these two messages are so different?

- To whom was the song written? And the poem?

 

-…As well:

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- Now that you know to whom the song and the poem were respectively written, talk to your partner and choose three of the father´s pieces of advice that you consider the most important or remarkable. Which qualities do they make you think of?

 

- What about today?:

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- Values such as humbleness, patience, modesty, self-confidence, generosity, trustworthiness, perseverance, self-control, honesty, risk-taking, etc. make themselves present in some of the father´s pieces of advice. Are these values still relevant? Will they still be relevant to your children?

 

- LANGUATURE:

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- Pay attention to the following sentences:

 

IF YOU CAN´T BEAT THEM, JOIN THEM

IF ALL MEN COUNT ON YOU […] YOU´LL BE A MAN, MY SON!

 

Both of them express a cause and consequence relationship with an expected result. They share the structure that allows us to classify them as conditional sentences, or “if clauses”.

 

IF + PRESENT                  MODAL (POSSIBILITY) + VERB (or) IMPERATIVE

 

 

- Text-web (Read, watch and listen):

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- Book:

Charles R. Smith Jr., “If”, 2007 (livro ilustrado com temática esportiva).

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- Song:

Roger Whittaker, “A song for Erik”, 1972 (letra é o poema adaptado).