Activity of text interpretation, addressed to students in the seventh year of elementary school, from the text The dairy and the milk bucket. It is the story of Joana who, when heading to the village with a bucket of milk on her head, thought of different things I could do from selling milk… However, something unexpected happens along the way… The what will it be? Are you curious? So, read the text and then delve deeper into its content, answering the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
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Joana, carrying a bucket of milk on her head, was heading quickly towards the village. In order to walk faster, she had changed into a light garment and comfortable shoes. It would go light as the wind. In her mind's eye, she was already selling the milk and employing the money.
– I buy a hundred eggs and put them to hatch. I can very well raise chicks around the house. When they grow up, I sell everyone and I make a good profit. With that money, I buy a little piglet. Before long, I will have a very fat pig, as I will only buy it if the piglet is already chubby. I charge a good price for the pig and buy a cow. You will have to come accompanied by your calf. It will be a grace to see him jump across the yard.
Joana excited, jumped too. The bucket fell from her head, and the milk spilled onto the floor. Goodbye calf, cow, pig, piglet, chick litter!
Poor Joan returned home, afraid that her husband would fight with her.
- It's easy to make castles in the air, he thought. Nothing better. In my imagination I can become queen, wear a diamond crown and have subjects who adore me. None of this lasts long: something random happens, and I'm Joana Leiteira again.
GÄRTNER, Hans & ZWERGER, Lisbeth. 12 Aesop's Fables. Trans. ALMEIDA, Fernanda Lopes de. 7. ed. Rio de Janeiro: Attica, 2003.
Question 1 - In the early part of the story, the term "quickly" indicates:
a) the way Joana approached the village.
b) the way Joana approached the village.
c) the time with which Joana went to the village.
d) the intensity with which Joana addressed the village.
Question 2 - According to the text, Joana was, in her mind, selling the milk and using the money, while she was heading to the village. At the end of her negotiations, she would have:
a) a litter of chicks.
b) a piglet.
c) a cow.
d) a cow with a calf.
Question 3 - According to the narrator, a fact interrupted Joana's plans. Identify it:
A:
Question 4 – After the event, Joana concludes that “It is easy to make castles in the air, she thought”. What did she mean by that statement? Explain:
A:
Question 5 - In the story, the dashes announce:
a) Joana's speeches.
b) the narrator's lines.
c) a speech by Joana and a speech by the narrator.
d) the speeches of two characters.
Question 6 – In the sentence “I would be light as the wind.”, the word “how” introduces:
a) a condition.
b) an example.
c) a comparison.
d) a conclusion.
Question 7 – In the passage “It will be a grace to see him jump across the yard.”, Joana refers:
a) to the chick.
b) to the little piglet.
c) the pig.
d) to the calf.
Question 8 – In the fragment “Joan excited, she jumped too.”, the highlighted adjective expresses:
a) an action by Joan.
b) a state of Joan.
c) a characteristic of Joan.
d) a way of being of Joan.
Question 9 – We can conclude that it predominates in the text:
a) the exposition of ideas.
b) description of scenarios.
c) the narration of events.
d) the defense of a point of view.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
At answers are in the link above the header.
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