Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the sixth year of elementary school, about a young breed dog and a hare. According to this story, a young hound spotted a hare behind a bush. More than running, he flew to hunt her. Did he manage to capture her? Are you curious to know? So, carefully read the text “It depends on the reason”! Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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Carefully read the text. Then answer the proposed interpretative questions:
A young hound spotted a hare behind a bush. More than running, he flew to hunt her. But the hare leapt out of reach and shot like an arrow until it was lost in the distance.
The hunting dog was disoriented when an older dog, an experienced hunter, passed by. The young dog took advantage of the company and complained:
- How can a hare ten times smaller than me run away like that?
The old hunting dog stopped for a moment and replied, with the experience of many hunts:
- Why, my dear, you were running just to get another meal, while the hare ran to save his life!
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Question 1 - The text "Depends on the reason" is:
( ) A tale.
( ) a fable.
( ) a report.
Question 2 - The story above happens because:
( ) a young breed dog saw a hare.
( ) the young breed dog flew to capture the hare.
( ) the hare managed to flee away from the young breed dog.
Question 3 - In the passage “More than running, he flew to huntthere.”, the highlighted term performs the function of:
( ) resume “a hare”.
( ) present “a hare”.
( ) characterize “a hare”.
Question 4 – In “But the hare leapt out of his reach and shot like an arrow until it was lost in the distance.”, the word “e” indicates:
( ) facts that add up.
( ) alternating facts.
( ) contrasting facts.
Question 5 - In the excerpt “The hunting dog was disoriented […]”, the narrator reveals:
( ) the action of the breed dog after the hunting attempt.
( ) the status of the breed dog after the hunting attempt.
( ) the breed dog's way of being after the hunting attempt.
Question 6 – In the speech “– Like can a hare ten times smaller than me run away like that?”, the underlined word expresses a circumstance of:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 7 – In the text, the dashes:
( ) announce the characters' lines.
( ) mark the beginning of the characters' speeches.
( ) indicate a brief interruption in the characters' speeches.
Question 8 – The expression “my dear” was used by the experienced breed dog to address the young breed dog. Therefore, this expression is called:
( ) subject.
( ) I bet.
( ) vocative.
Question 9 – Reread the speech of the most experienced breed dog:
"- Why, my dear, you just ran to get one more meal, while the hare ran to save its own life!"
In the view of the experienced breed dog, the hare managed to escape the younger breed dog because:
( ) her reason for running is equivalent to his reason for running.
( ) her reason for running is greater than his reason for running.
( ) her reason for running is smaller than his reason for running.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
