Activity of text interpretation, aimed at 7th grade students, allows for the improvement of various reading skills. The proposed questions are based on the text. child says each one, by Mario Prata.
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PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Aninha was already two years old. Beautiful blonde. I had never cut my hair. They were golden yellow and curly. “It looked like a little baroque angel,” says the owl mother.
There one day, the mother takes a huge pair of scissors and decides to treat the child's head, because the melenas were already on the shoulders. She calls the girl, who arrives wary, looking at the glittering scissors.
– Mom is going to cut Aninha's hair.
– Aninha looks at the scissors, she gets scared.
– I don't want, I don't want, I don't want!!!
– It doesn't hurt at all…
– I don't want to!, she already said.
And run away. The mother runs after. With scissors in hand. With great effort, she manages to get her daughter out from under the bed, crying, fearing the worst. She consoles her daughter. They sit on the bed. She takes a break. The girl stops crying. But, she doesn't take her eye off the scissors.
– Look, my love, Mom promises to cut only two little fingers.
Aninha opens both hands, already submissive, starts crying, asking, looking at the huge scissors and at her own little hand:
– Which ones, mother?
Mario Silver. “100 chronicles by Mário Prata”. São Paulo: Editorial poster, 1997.
Question 1 - The purpose of whoever wrote the text is:
a) inform about an event that occurred.
b) express an opinion.
c) criticize child behavior.
d) tell a story.
Question 2 - Aninha's mother decided to cut her daughter's hair because:
a) Aninha was already two years old.
b) she had never cut her daughter's hair.
c) the girl's hair was golden yellow and curly.
d) Aninha's melenas were already on her shoulders.
Question 3 - Why doesn't Aninha want to cut her hair?
Question 4 – “Child says each one”. What does the author of the text refer to?
Question 5 - Highlight the terms that use the Aninha referent in the following sentences:
a) “[…] and she decides to treat the child's head […]”
b) "Call the girl, who arrives wary, looking at the sparkling scissors."
c) "At great cost, she manages to get her daughter out from under the bed [...]"
d) "The girl stops crying."
Question 6 – “The girl stops crying. But, she doesn't take her eye off the scissors.” This sentence can be rewritten as follows:
a) “The girl stops crying. However, she doesn't take her eye off the scissors.”
b) “The girl stops crying. So she doesn't take her eye off the scissors.”
c) “The girl stops crying. Because she doesn't take her eye off the scissors.”
d) “The girl stops crying. After all, she doesn't take her eye off the scissors.”
Question 7 – In the excerpt “Call the girl, who arrives suspicious, looking at the sparkling scissors.”, the highlighted word could be replaced by:
a) worried
b) suspicious
c) distressed
d) impatient
Question 8 – Most verbs in the text are in tense:
( ) past
( ) gift
( ) future
Question 9 – In “Mommy will cut the little hair […].”, the locution underlined has the meaning of the verb:
a) would cut
b) cut
c) will cut
d) cut
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
At answers are in the link above the header.
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