Text interpretation, proposed to 8th grade students, explores the peculiar characteristics of the genre “cooking recipe: cassava cake”.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read this recipe carefully:
Super creamy cake, made with cassava, coconut, coconut milk, cheese. Super delicious, great for breakfast or afternoon snack.
Ingredients
250g of butter
750g of sugar
7 eggs
250 g of cheese
2 kg of cassava
1 tablespoon of baking powder
200 ml of coconut milk
300 ml of whole milk
2 cups of grated coconut 
Utensils:
Blender
drain
balance
bowl
Grate the cassava. Reserve.
Place eggs, sugar, milk, coconut milk, butter, and cheese in a blender. Hitting well.
Add the grated cassava little by little, beat well.
Pour the mixture into a bowl and add the grated coconut and yeast, mix.
Pour the mixture into a greased and floured baking tray.
Place in a preheated oven 180° for 40 minutes or until you insert a toothpick and it comes out clean.
Allow to cool and serve.
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1) Identify the communicative purpose of the recipe and the target audience:
2) Reread the cassava cake recipe presentation. Then cite the adjectives used to qualify it and explain the purpose of that presentation:
3) Reread this excerpt, noting the underlined verbs:
“add the grated cassava little by little, hit well."
3.1 Identify the idea expressed by them:
3.2 Note that verbs come in different forms, despite expressing the same idea. In what way(s) could they be written so as to maintain unity?
4) Justify the use of commas in this excerpt:
"Place the eggs, sugar, milk, coconut milk, butter, and cheese in a blender."
5) The terms present in the "Utensils" part comprise the class of:
a) adjectives
b) nouns
c) adverbs
d) articles
6) It can be said that the culinary recipe genre is composed of textual sequences of the types:
a) descriptive and argumentative.
b) expository and injunctive.
c) expository and narrative.
d) descriptive and injunctive.
7) Depending on the region of the country, cassava is named in other ways. Do some research to find them.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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