Text interpretation activity for fifth grade students, the text used in this interpretation is “The cockroach and the broom”.
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A cheeky cockroach entered a lady's very clean house through a window. Seeing the intruder hurrying through the kitchen, the lady armedoff a broom and started chasing the cockroach, sweeping brooms in order to get the disgusting bug.
But the little fag, quick as she is, managed to escape and went to hide in the service area in a boss of the washing machine.
exhausted and without seeing where the cockroach hid, the woman hung up her broom with the firm intention of continuing the pursuit the next day.
It got dark. The cockroach was still there in its hiding place very quietly, but her stomach growled with hunger. Fear held her. She thought:
– If you leave now, the woman catches me… the best thing is to wait…
And when silence fell in the house, she walked out slowly, silently. She walked a little. She looked around her. There was nobody. She inched a little farther and suddenly heard that noise of hard bristles scraping the floor: chap, chap, chap.
She looked scared and saw that it was the broom, hanging from a nail, that was making movements to hit her. Knowing that the broom couldn't leave without help, the cockroach left for the kitchen in search of food.
She climbed to the foot of the table and reached the bread basket covered with a white washcloth. She crept under the washcloth and gnawed, gnawed each loaf with gusto. It was an indescribable flavor.
Satisfied, she descended the same place she went up. She walked, in the dark, all over the house leaving her smell and feces, in the form of balls, everywhere. She went back to the service area and stopping in front of the broom she said:
– You suffered so much to expel me and here I am with a full belly, while you, slave, are hanging there. You can do nothing. – And putting her paws on her waist, she made faces at the broom, singing:
– huh, huh, huh, huh…
The broom got nervous, rolled, rolled, but the nail wouldn't come out.
– What a cheeky cockroach… and I can't do anything…
And before dawn and the hostess got up and came face to face with her, the cockroach climbed the wall from the service area, towards a crack in the window and, before leaving and still laughing with the broom, she said goodbye:
- Goodbye! I hope your headache goes away soon… there were so many blows to hit me… huh, huh, huh, huh…
And she went down the outer wall of the building towards her nest in a place that only she knows.
Maria Hilda de Jesus Alão
1) What is the title of the text?
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2) Who is the author?
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3) How many paragraphs are there in the text?
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4) What are the characters in the text?
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5) Where does this story take place? And what was this place like?
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6) Where did the cockroach hide?
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7) What caused the cockroach to come out of its hiding place? Did she get what she wanted?
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8) Look up the meaning of the underlined words in the text in the dictionary, and write their meaning below:
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9) In her opinion, what problems can cockroaches cause and why?
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10) What can we do to avoid having cockroaches at home?
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At answers are in the link above the header.
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