activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the fifth year of elementary school, about the chatty parakeet. Let's know the story of this parakeet? So read the text very carefully! Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
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Read:
Parakeets have a reputation for chatterboxes. But Pery left the others speechless with his incessant chatter. He was capable of talking nonstop for twenty-four hours. Whoever had the misfortune of being chosen as a listener would not escape it so soon. After a while, the poor wretch was dizzy with so much idle talk in his ears.
“We have to do something to get rid of the torment Pery causes us. - proposed the zebra.
- This is very easy! - exclaimed the Lemurite, who for some reason was considered the best of his class. "We'll offer you a mirror." So he can talk to himself all the time. He's so excited about the conversation, he won't even realize he's talking to himself!
The trick worked. There Peri stood, in the middle of a clearing in the woods, talking... talking... with his own image reflected in the mirror.
It had been like this for three days. There's nothing that gets you more excited than a listener who never responds. If you go on like this for another week, you run the risk of getting burnt out.
But what is to be done?
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Question 1 – Identify the one who, according to the text, “was capable of talking non-stop for twenty-four hours”:
( ) Peri.
( ) the zebra.
( ) the Lemurite.
Question 2 – The excerpt “Whoever had the misfortune of being chosen as a listener, would not escape it so soon.” It is:
( ) a narration.
( ) a description.
( ) an argument.
Question 3 – Read back:
"- This is very easy! ’ exclaimed the Lemurite, who for some reason was considered the best of his class.”
When Lemurito says “That” what is he referring to?
Question 4 – In the passage “He gets so excited about the conversation, what he won't even realize he's talking to himself!”, the underlined word introduces:
( ) a cause.
( ) a purpose.
( ) a consequence.
Question 5 – In the phrase “There is nothing that makes you more excited than a listener who Never answer nothing.”, the underlined term indicates:
( ) time.
( ) negation.
( ) intensity.
Question 6 – According to the text, the solution to the problem involving Peri gave the expected result. Point to the fragment that confirms this:
( ) “[…] the poor wretch was dizzy from so much idle talk in his ears.”
( ) “So he can talk to himself all the time.”
( ) “There Peri stayed […] talking… talking… with his own image reflected in the mirror.”
Question 7 – In the segment "If it goes on like this another week, will run the risk of being exhausted.”, the highlighted part expresses:
( ) a conclusion.
( ) an assumption.
( ) a comparison.
Question 8 – In “But what is there to do?”, the text:
( ) gives an order.
( ) expresses a desire.
( ) proposes a reflection.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
