Reading Comprehension

“Another brick in the wall” – Pink Floyd

 Reading – Pink Floyd’s biographical facts
The early Sixties. Everything is up in the air, not least love, drugs and
sex. A group of talented teenagers from academic backgrounds in Cambridge
— Roger 'Syd' Barrett, Roger Waters and David Gilmour — are all keen
guitarists and among many who move to London, keen to discover more of
this new world and express themselves in it. Mainly in further education —
studying the arts, architecture, music — they mix with like-minded incomers
in the big city.
Layout do título
In 1965, Barrett and Waters meet an experimental percussionist and
an extraordinarily gifted keyboards-player — Nick Mason and Rick Wright
respectively. The result is Pink Floyd, which more than 40 years later has
moved from massive to almost mythic standing.
Subtítulo
a) Identify: Name of band members; period when the band was created; place
where is it from.
 Video 1 – “Another brick in the wall”

Relate de columns: ( ) He is a hard a rude person,

so treat his students with
a) Who are the main characters? threats, shouts and humiliation.

b) Where is he? How does that place ( ) a Teacher and his students.
look like?
( ) It is basically a critique of the
c) What’s teacher’s method of rigid educational system,
teaching? especially boarding schools.

d) Is there historical criticism in this ( ) At a school which has an

videoclipe? Which one? authoritarian system.
 Video 2
Answer in portuguese:
e) Considerando o título “Another brick in the wall”, como a cena em que o
professor “passa” os alunos em um moedor de carne pode ser entendida? Explique.

f) Em qual outro trecho isso fica evidente?

g) Relacione o trecho abaixo ao assunto central do clipe:

“We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone”.

h) Quais semelhanças e diferenças você observa entre a educação da época e as

metodologias atuais? Explique.
Another Brick In The Wall

We don't need no education. We don't need no education.

We don't need no thought We don't need no thought control.
control. No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
No dark sarcasm in the
classroom. Teachers, leave those kids alone.
Hey, Teacher, leave those kids alone!
Teacher, leave them kids alone. All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
Hey, Teacher, leave them kids All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
alone!
All in all it's just another brick in
the wall.
All in all you're just another brick
in the wall.
 Expansion activity
Parte 1
A partir da canção “Another brick in the wall”, elabore uma charge que apresente uma situação
em que aquele trecho poderia ser dito.
Orientações:
- Os personagens e cenário devem ser criados por você.
- As expressões faciais dos personagens devem ser condizentes com suas ações, sentimentos e
falas.

Parte 2
Escreva um texto expositivo sobre a música e a charge criada, tenha as seguintes questões como
base: Que música é essa? De quem é? Qual é o assunto da canção? Como a música retratou a
crítica? Que linguagem é usada na canção? Como a ideia da música foi retratada na charge? Quais
elementos foram usados (personagens, cenário, falas)? Por que a charge é um bom exemplo de
releitura dessa música?
Some inspirations