Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the sixth year of elementary school, about the “greatest disaster of the seven seas”. What disaster is the author of the text referring to, huh? Let's find out? So, read the text carefully and then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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Have you ever tried mixing water and oil (or olive oil)? They don't mix… Anything that doesn't mix with water is called insoluble. But if we mix water with milk (or juice), everything will mix together, forming a single liquid. That's why we say that milk is soluble.
Oil – like oil – is insoluble. But unlike cooking oil, oil does many things. The main one is to produce fuel for cars and other automobiles. Even rockets use oil to fly to the moon. That's why he is so important.
But because oil is insoluble it can also be very dangerous. As it does not mix with water, if thrown overboard it can make a huge mess. The animals that live in the sea suffer a lot from it, the fish cannot breathe and end up dying. Birds get oil-filled feathers and can drown. The situation is also bad for people who live on the beach. Fishermen, for example, find it more difficult to fish and may not have anything to eat.
Bruno Delecave. Available in:. (Fragment).
Question 1 - Reread this period of the text:
"Anything that doesn't mix with water is called insoluble."
During this period, the author of the text:
( ) defines the term “insoluble”.
( ) exposes an opinion on the term “soluble”.
( ) raises a hypothesis about the term “soluble”.
Question 2 - The text cites as insoluble:
( ) water and oil.
( ) water and milk.
( ) oil and oil.
Question 3 - In “That's why we say that milk is soluble.”, the verb “we say” expresses an action:
( ) of a hidden subject.
( ) of a composite subject.
( ) of an indeterminate subject.
Question 4 – In the sentence "But, unlike the oil used for cooking […]”, the underlined word could be replaced by:
( ) "Thus".
( ) "Although".
( ) "Therefore".
Question 5 - In the excerpt “That's why he is so important.”, the pronoun “he” refers to:
( ) to oil.
( ) to oil.
( ) to fuel.
Question 6 – In the part “How it does not mix with water […]”, “How” expresses:
( ) a cause.
( ) a condition.
( ) a comparison.
Question 7 – In the segment “[…] if thrown overboard it can make a huge mess […]”, the word “if” was used to indicate:
( ) a doubt.
( ) an assumption.
( ) a conclusion.
Question 8 – According to the text, birds can drown in the event of an oil spill at sea, because:
( ) “they live in the sea”.
( ) “can't breathe”.
( ) “they keep their feathers full of oil”.
Question 9 – The text read has purposes:
( ) didactic.
( ) scientific.
( ) journalistic.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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