
Quantas e quantas vezes já se ouviu falar de pessoas que migram de um lugar para outro em busca de melhores condições de vida? Muitas vezes essas pessoas são acolhidas pela sorte e conseguem se “manter vivas”, por assim dizer. Contudo, o destino não é tão fiel a todos, como é o caso de Isaak.
A matéria que eu trouxe para analisar no “Dicas de Inglês” mostra, de forma resumida, a história de um homem que mora dentro de uma estrutura metálica junto com outros 4 companheiros.
Como o blog é destinado a dicas, então abordaremos aqui vocabulário, estruturas gramaticais.
Segue o texto:
Life on the less than sunny side of Spain
The agricultural region around Spain’s Almería is home to thousands of illegal immigrants living in slum-like conditions. Amid the economic crisis, many want to return to Africa, but lack the means to get home.
When the sun shines, Isaak’s home turns into an oven. The 30-year-old, who came to Spain from Ghana, sits on a mattress and knocks on the roof of his shelter.
“That’s metal – in the summer you can burn your finger on it,” he told Deutsche Welle.
The shelter is made from an upside down cargo hold of a truck, and is too low to stand up in. Nonetheless Isaak shares it with four other African immigrants.
Rust has eaten away at the metal in some places, so that when it Raíns, the water drips inside.
Each man has his own mattress. Isaak keeps his possessions, which consist of clothing, a bible, toiletries and a photo of his family back in Ghana, in plastic and cloth bags. Next to his bed is a bag of groceries from the Red Cross.
“I don’t have any work, so it’s almost impossible to find anything at the moment,” he said.
Isaak’s shelter is located amid a sea of greenhouses in San Isidro near Almería. The region, located in Spain’s rural southeast, is known as “Europe’s greenhouse.” Huge stretches of land are covered with sheets of plastic, making the area look like a giant mirror in satellite images.
Este texto é de autoria de Stefen Leidel, editor Sam Edmonds – retirado so site Deutsche Welle. Para ter acesso ao texto completo basta acessar o link: http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15728967,00.html – Para que você possa ler e compreender o texto, eu criei uma versão traduzida com um vocabulário que, em minha opinião, é muito importante.



