Text Interpretation: Jabutis-tinga

Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the seventh year of elementary school, about the tinga tortoises. Twenty-eight tortoises of reproductive age were reintroduced into the Tijuca National Park, the largest urban forest in the world. Will we know more about this reintroduction? Then, read the text “After 200 years of extinction, tortoises return to Parque da Tijuca”. Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

After 200 years of extinction, tortoises return to Tijuca Park

Twenty-eight tortoises of reproductive age were reintroduced into the Tijuca National Park, the largest urban forest in the world. The place is once again inhabited by tinga tortoises, native to the region, 200 years after the species was considered extinct.

The tortoise is the third species to be re-implanted in the Tijuca Forest, after the agouti and the howler monkey. These animals are released into the forest with a radio transmitter that sends messages to a radio wave receiver. The system allows the monitoring of this return to the habitat.

The initiative is from Refauna, an entity linked to the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in partnership with the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro and the Federal Institute of Rio de Janeiro. Since 2010, the institutions have reintroduced animals that were completely extinct in the Park and are important to restore the lost interaction and ecological process. UFRJ biologist and researcher at Refauna, Marcelo Rheingantz, explains that one of the most important roles of tortoises is to help in the regeneration of the flora.

The reintroduction of the animals happened in different ways: half of the 28 reintroduced tortoises went through a acclimatization process in an enclosure within the preservation area in the last six months, where they were monitored and fed.

Another 14 tortoises of the same species were released, but without undergoing rehabilitation. They went straight from the Wild Animal Screening Center at IBAMA, in Seropédica, in the metropolitan region of Rio, into the forest. The objective is to verify if acclimatization is really necessary for the tortoises' survival in the natural environment.

Another 32 animals will be returned to nature by the end of winter this year, for a total of 60 tortoises. The objective is to assess whether the season of the year also interferes with the species' survival.

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Questions

Question 1 - Identify the purpose of the text:

( ) report a fact about the tinga tortoises.

( ) disclose a place where there are tortoises.

( ) tell a story about the tinga tortoises.

Question 2 - In “Twenty-eight tortoises of reproductive age were reintroduced […]”, the author of the text exposes the exact amount of tortoises reintroduced. That's why she used:

( ) an ordinal numeral.

( ) a cardinal numeral.

( ) a fractional numeral.

Question 3 - In the segment “These animals are released into the forest with a radio transmitter that sends messages to a radio wave receiver.”, which animals does the text refer to?

( ) to tortoises.

( ) to the shares.

( ) to howler monkeys.

Question 4 - In the passage “The institutions reintroduce, since 2010, animals that were completely extinct.”, the highlighted expression indicates a circumstance of:

( ) place.

( ) mode.

( ) time.

Question 5 - In the fragment “A reintroduction of animals happened in different ways […]”, the underlined prefix expresses the idea of:

( ) repetition.

( ) proximity.

( ) removal.

Question 6 – Read back:

"Another 14 tortoises of the same species were released, but without undergoing rehabilitation."

The term “but” introduces:

( ) a fact that concludes the above.

( ) a fact that highlights the above.

( ) a fact that compensates for the previous one.

Question 7 – In the part “[…] interferes with the survival of the species.”, the verb has the meaning of:

( ) "help".

( ) "to influence".

( ) "to transform".

By Denyse Lage Fonseca

Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

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