Assessment of text interpretation, with the classic story of the old smuggler, aimed at students in the fifth year of elementary school.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
He says it was an old woman who knew how to ride a scooter. Every day she crossed the border on her scooter, with a brute sack behind the scooter. The Alfândega staff – all rascals old – began to distrust the old lady.
One day, when she was coming on the scooter with the bag behind her, the customs inspector told her to stop. The old lady stopped and then the inspector asked her:
– Listen here, granny, you pass through here every day, with that bag in the back. What the hell are you carrying in that bag?
The old woman smiled with the few teeth she had left and the others, which she had acquired from the dentist, and replied:
– It's sand!
Then it was the fiscal who smiled. He thought it wasn't sand at all and told the old woman to jump off the scooter to examine the bag. The old lady jumped, the inspector emptied the bag and inside there was only sand. Very embarrassed, he ordered the old woman to go ahead. She mounted the scooter and left, with the bag of sand in her wake.
But the inspector was still suspicious. Maybe the old lady spent one day with sand and the other with muamba, inside that damn bag. The next day, when she passed by on the scooter with the bag behind her, the inspector told her to stop again. He asked what she was carrying in her bag and she replied that it was sand, wow! The inspector examined it and it was. For a month in a row, the inspector intercepted the old lady and, each time, what she took in the bag was sand.
He says that's when the inspector got upset:
– Look, grandma, I'm a customs inspector with 40 years of service. I know this smuggling thing as hell. Nobody gets it out of my mind that you're a smuggler.
– But there's only sand in the bag! - insisted the old lady. And he was about to play the scooter, when the inspector proposed:
– I promise you that I will let you through. I don't give part, I don't understand, I don't tell anyone anything, but you're going to tell me: what's the contraband you're passing through here every day?
– Do you promise not to “escape”? – the old lady wanted to know.
- I swear - replied the inspector.
– It's scooter.
(Stanislaw Ponte Preta)
1) What is the title of the text. What is the subject of the text above?
2) This text has how many characters, name them.
3) Is the above text descriptive, essay or informative? Justify your answer.
4) What did the author mean by the expression “every old rogue”?
5) Read the 4th paragraph of the text again and answer:
When the narrator mentioned the teeth that “she had acquired from the dentist”, what kind of teeth was he referring to?
6) Explain in your own words why the old lady needed to deceive the inspector and what was the trick she used to deceive the inspector.
7) When and for what reason did the old lady decide to tell the truth?
8) What is the big surprise in the story?
9) What is the correct sequence of events according to the text “The old smuggler”.
( ) The inspector verified that there was only sand inside the bag.
( ) The customs staff began to distrust the old lady.
( ) Faced with the inspector's promise, she told him the truth: it was scooter smuggling.
( ) Every day, the old lady used to cross the border on a scooter, with a bag in the trunk.
( ) But, suspicious, the inspector started to search the old lady every day.
( ) For a month, the inspector intercepted the old lady and, every time, what she took in the bag was sand.
() So he promised he wouldn't tell anyone anything, but he asked the old woman to tell him what smuggling she was doing.
10) What adjectives (qualities) would you give the old lady:
( ) naive ( ) optimistic
( ) smart ( ) pessimistic
( ) lapses ( ) silly
( ) tired ( ) smart
11) Find what is requested in the text and copy it in the column below:
| Verbs - underline them | Adjectives - circle them | Pronouns - paint them |
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At answers are in the link above the header.
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