Text Interpretation: Go shopping and save the world

Text interpretation, aimed at 9th grade students, allows the development of important reading skills. The text in question is entitled go shopping and save the world.

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

go shopping and save the world

Finally, sustainable discourse absolves our favorite sin: consumerism. Understand here how it is possible to have fun in stores without polluting the environment. The answer is in the tree beside you.

Sabine Righetti and Karin Hueck

Don't drive a car, don't eat meat, don't produce garbage, don't use water and don't dare to have children. Few things are as negative (and boring) as the radical ecological discourse, which preaches that we must do everything to do as little damage to the environment as possible. No wonder that many can no longer stand to hear about the subject. But finally a new proposal realized that doing “less harm” to the planet is still not enough – it is necessary not to do any harm. (After all, using less water is still using water.) And the best part: this new discourse alleviates the conscience of eco-sinners. With it we will be able – no, better, we will need – to shop at will, because then we will also be saving the planet. Since companies will always look for profit and people will always want the new

iPod or the TV of led, the way is to make this combine with sustainability. And how would that be possible? Imitating nature and recycling products forever. It seems difficult, but it is already happening – and it will require a change of habit comparable to the Industrial Revolution, involving companies, cities, homes and people. […]

“Superinteressante”, Green Edition, Dec. 2011, no. 286, p. 72-73.

Questions

Question 1 - In the title "Go shopping and save the world", the use of the imperative aims to:

a) advise

b) order

c) persuade

d) ask

Question 2 - The text deals with a problem that significantly affects our planet. What is this problem?

Question 3 - Define the “radical ecological discourse” according to the text:

Question 4 – Mark the passage that presents the solution, according to the text, for the problem identified in the previous question:

a) "Don't drive, don't eat meat, don't produce garbage, don't waste water and don't dare to have children."

b) “[…] do everything to cause as little damage as possible to the environment.”

c) “[…] do “less harm” to the planet […]”

d) "Imitating nature and recycling products forever."

question 5 – “[…] the way is to do that combine with sustainability.”. What does the underlined pronoun refer to?

Question 6 – “But finally a new proposal realized that doing 'less harm' to the planet is still not enough […]”. This period, through the conjunction "but", establishes with the previous ones a relationship of:

a) comparison

b) opposition

c) conclusion

d) cause

Question 7 – Note that the words iPod and led appear in italics in the text. Check the justification for using this resource:

a) are little known words.

b) are terms of foreign origin.

c) are the main words of the text.

d) the terms were misspelled.

Question 8 – In the segment “[…] make purchases at will, why this way we will also be saving the planet.”, the term underlined could be replaced by:

a) because

b) therefore

c) however

d) because

By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

At answers are in the link above the header.

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