• Nível B1
• Interpretação de texto
• Hortas comunitárias
• artigo

Growing More Than Vegetables: o efeito social das hortas urbanas (B1)

A community garden is not only about vegetables. In neighbourhoods where public space is rare, these small plots have become places where people who would never speak to each other share tools and recipes. City councils like them because unused land is cleaned at almost no cost. Residents like them for other reasons: fresh food, exercise and, above all, company. Research in several countries has associated participation with lower levels of loneliness among older people. Although a garden cannot solve housing problems or unemployment, it changes the way a street feels, and that change is not small.

Fonte: English for ALL (texto original).

A ideia central do texto é que a horta comunitária

1. A A) representa a principal fonte de renda dos moradores mais idosos.
2. B B) tem um valor social que ultrapassa a simples produção de alimentos.
3. C C) foi criada pelas prefeituras para reduzir o preço dos legumes.
4. D D) resolve os problemas de moradia e de desemprego dos bairros.
5. E E) substitui de forma definitiva os espaços públicos que faltam na cidade.