Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the seventh year of elementary school, on the route of bricks. Where do the bricks and blocks on the walls of your house come from? The authors of the text reveal to us that the work of stacking and transporting bricks to the kilns is done by a large number of children and teenagers! And under what conditions does this work take place? Will we learn more about this harsh reality? So, read the text carefully! Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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Where do the bricks and blocks on the walls of your house come from?
Most of them still come from potteries, generally belonging to small businesses.
And how are these bricks made? Production starts with the extraction of clay; then, in the potteries, the work of elaboration, processing of the mixture, shaping, drying, burning, selection and storage of the product is carried out.
But it is in the work of stacking and transporting bricks to the kilns that a large number of children and teenagers work. For transport, they use wheelbarrows, which carry around 56 bricks, which weigh 1.5 to 2 kilos when wet; this means that they carry, on average, 91 kilos per cart.
In addition to expending enormous physical effort, these children are exposed to the heat of the ovens, toxic gases such as carbon monoxide produced by combustion, and dust.
This heavy, monotonous and repetitive activity is carried out in precarious places, with dirt floors, which present depressions and bumps. All this makes it even more difficult to drive the carts: accidents caused by falling bricks, which end up hitting children, are very common.
Working hours can reach 10 hours, so many young people do not go to school, or when they do, they are usually behind in relation to their age and year.
Cristina Porto; Yolanda Huzak; Jo Azevedo. “Children's work: the difficult dream of being a child”. São Paulo: Attica, 2003. P. 82.
Question 1 - Reread this period of the text:
"Majority their still comes from potteries, generally owned by small businesses.”
The authors of the text used the word highlighted above to refer to:
Question 2 - In the segment "E like are these bricks made?”, the underlined word expresses a circumstance of:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 3 - In the passage “But it is in the work of stacking and transporting bricks […]”, “Mas” introduces a fact:
( ) which concludes the previous fact.
( ) which highlights the previous fact.
( ) which compensates for the previous fact.
Question 4 - In the fragment “[…] a large number of children and adolescents work.”, the use of the singular verb is:
( ) prohibited.
( ) optional.
( ) mandatory.
Question 5 - In the part “[…] they use wheelbarrows […]”, the pronoun “they” resumes:
A:
Question 6 – In “[…] toxic gases, such as carbon monoxide produced by combustion […]”, the term “how” indicates:
( ) the condition of the toxic gas to which children are exposed.
( ) an example of a toxic gas to which children are exposed.
( ) a comparison between the toxic gases to which children are exposed.
Question 7 – According to the authors of the text, children are often victims of accidents caused by falling bricks, which occur:
( ) due to the amount of bricks transported in the wheelbarrows.
( ) due to the daily number of transports of bricks in wheelbarrows.
( ) due to the precarious conditions of the places where the handcarts pass.
Question 8 – According to the text, many young people who work with bricks do not go to school because:
( ) “working hours can reach 10 hours”.
( ) “they are usually behind in relation to their age”.
( ) “they are usually late in the year they attend”.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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