activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the fifth year of elementary school, about trash on the beach. Are we going to better inform ourselves about the consequences of throwing garbage on the beach? So, read the text carefully! Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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Popsicle sticks, cans, soft drink caps, cups, cookie wrappers, straws, bottles, food scraps, nails, wire and other materials. Have you recognized all this garbage? Yeah, the list is long and most of it can be found on the beach sand.
Where does so much garbage come from? The next time you go to the beach, put your games aside for a moment and watch: someone sucking popsicle, drinking soda, eating cookies and, to his surprise, throwing the packaging of these products in the sand. What a horror, huh?!
Do people do this because they know the garbage man will come by and collect everything at the end of the day? Maybe, but that doesn't always solve the problem. That wire or some piece of bottle glass that broke and was buried in the sand can injure someone playing ball, building a castle or simply walking along the beach. Food scraps attract pigeons, flies and even rats, animals that can transmit a range of diseases. The tide can also rise and take all this rubbish out to sea, bring it back to the sand with the coming and going of the waves and even take it to other beaches.
But one of the worst problems with garbage left on the sands happens precisely when the waves do not return it to dry land and it ends up on the high seas. Thousands of animals such as turtles, dolphins and seagulls may think floating garbage is food and gobble it up. This usually kills a lot of bugs!
So how about doing your part? Everyone must be aware that they are responsible for the waste they produce. Do not leave the popsicle stick, the bag of cookies you ate and all the other packaging of the products you consume in the sand. Collect them before leaving the beach and throw them in a trash can. Spread this habit around and get to work. After all, a clean beach is mine, yours, our beach!
Fabio Vieira de Araujo.
Magazine “Science Today for Children”. Edition 255.
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Question 1 – In the passage “Yes, the list is long and most of it can be found in the sand on the beach.”, the text refers to the list of:
Question 2 – In “It may be, but not ever this solves the problem.”, the underlined term expresses:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 3 – Identify the passage that contains an opinion of the author:
( ) “Where does so much garbage come from?”
( ) “What a horror, huh?!”
( ) “That usually kills a lot of animals!”
Question 4 – Watch:
“Food scraps attract pigeons, flies It is even rats, animals that can transmit a series of diseases.”,
The highlighted word indicates:
( ) sum.
( ) opposition.
( ) alternation.
Question 5 – Underline below the words used to resume “the garbage left in the sands”:
“But one of the worst problems with garbage left on the sands happens precisely when the waves do not return it to dry land and it ends up on the high seas.”
Question 6 – In the segment “Thousands of animals such as turtles, dolphins and seagulls may think that floating garbage is food and swallow it.”, the word “how”:
( ) points out causes.
( ) introduces examples.
( ) starts a comparison.
Question 7 – Reread the last paragraph. In this part of the text, the author:
( ) gives orders.
( ) makes warnings.
( ) seeks to raise awareness.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
