activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the fifth year of elementary school, on a public leisure area. Rio will gain public park in the area that hosted the Olympic Games. Are we going to know more about this fact? So, read the text carefully! Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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City Hall will invest BRL 36 million
The Olympic Park, which hosted the main competitions of the Rio 2016 Games, will be transformed into a public leisure area, with plenty of space for sports and recreation in the shade of hundreds of trees. The start of the works, this Thursday (2), was accompanied by the mayor of Rio, Eduardo Paes, and the Minister of Sports, Ana Moser.
Named Via Olímpica, the new space, with 36 thousand square meters, should be inaugurated next year. The route connects all the main areas of the park, such as the arenas, terraces and the live site, terrace for events in front of the Jacarepaguá Lagoon. The site will gain new landscape elements, children's toys, gym equipment, sports courts and new urban furniture.
The Via Olímpica will receive over 900 trees and 16,000 bushes, new sports courts and squares, renovation of the skate park, wet square and colored floors. There will also be new urban furniture, such as 465 tables and chairs, 27 children's toys, 14 gym equipment and 14 bicycle racks. The City Hall will invest BRL 36 million in the Via Olímpica, which is expected to be inaugurated in March 2024. The information is from the City Hall of Rio de Janeiro.
Available in:. Accessed on: February 02, 2022.
Question 1 – The text above is:
( ) A tale.
( ) a summary.
( ) a notice.
Question 2 – The section “The Olympic Park, which hosted the main competitions of the Rio 2016 Games, will be transformed into a public leisure area […]” is:
( ) a narration.
( ) a description.
( ) an argument.
Question 3 – In the segment “The beginning of the works, this Thursday (2), was accompanied by the mayor of Rio […]”, the highlighted part indicates:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 4 – What is the name of the new public leisure area?
( ) “Live Site”.
( ) “Olympic Way”.
( ) “Olympic Park”.
Question 5 – Watch:
“The route connects all the main areas of the park […]”
The verb used in this fragment could be replaced by:
( ) "turns on".
( ) "walks".
( ) “behaves”.
Question 6 – In “The site will gain new landscape elements, children’s toys, gym equipment, sports courts It is new urban furniture.”, the underlined term expresses:
( ) sum.
( ) opposition.
( ) conclusion.
Question 7 – In the passage “The Olympic Way will receive another 900 trees and 16,000 bushes […]”, the text reveals a future fact. Therefore, the underlined expression is equivalent to the verb:
( ) "receive".
( ) "it received".
( ) "will receive".
Question 8 – In the last paragraph, the text informs the quantities of new furniture that the Via Olímpica will receive. To do this, use numerals:
( ) ordinals.
( ) cardinal.
( ) fractional.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
