Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the seventh year of elementary school, about a book that tells the failures of science. Are we going to know more about this work? So, read the text carefully! Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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Carefully read the text. Then answer the interpretive questions:
We usually hear science news when research works, right? A new medicine, a new treatment, a new discovery… There's always an air of good things, success!
But, to reach positive results, researchers go through many difficulties and difficulties that are not always disclosed!
That's why the French illustrator Jim Jourdane decided to release a book that recounts these failures of science!
He narrates how things ended up going wrong on expeditions and fieldwork that had everything to be a success.
The stories were collected on Twitter, using the hashtag #fieldworkfail (in free translation, something like “failure in field study”).
There are stories of a scientist who clung to a crocodile in the middle of the jungle, people who fell into a puddle of mud after monkey watching, playing rock to attract (or scare away!) lions and other things funny!
Often, it is not enough for scientists to plan and organize themselves and do their part very well. Science, like nature, can be unpredictable and deliver totally different results than expected.
The book is available for sale in three languages: French, English and Spanish, and also in a digital version.
How cool it would be if we had a book like that in Portuguese too, right? 😉
Veronica Soares. Available in:. Accessed on: October 22, 2020. (With cuts).
Question 1 - In the passage "Ever it has an air of something good, of success!”, the underlined word expresses, in relation to the fact mentioned earlier in the text, a circumstance of:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 2 - In the segment “He narrates how things ended up going wrong in expeditions and fieldwork that had everything to be a success.”, the author of the text:
( ) evaluates the book by French illustrator Jim Jourdane.
( ) quotes a phrase from the book by French illustrator Jim Jourdane.
( ) tells the subject of the book by French illustrator Jim Jourdane.
Question 3 - In the excerpt "Has stories of a scientist who clung to a crocodile in the middle of the jungle […]”, the highlighted verb has the meaning:
( ) “have”.
( ) "to do".
( ) "to happen".
Question 4 – In the fragment “[…] playing rock to attract (or scare!) lions […]”, the preposition “to” establishes a relationship of:
( ) direction.
( ) goal.
( ) adequacy.
Question 5 - Read back:
"Often, it is not enough for the scientist to plan and organize himself and do his part very well."
Transcribe the part of the text that justifies the above statement:
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Question 6 – In “How cool would it be if we had a book like that in Portuguese too, right?”, the author of the text:
( ) provides a description.
( ) exposes an opinion.
( ) raises a hypothesis.
Question 7 – The expression "we", used by the author in the text, is an example of:
( ) cultured language.
( ) Informal language.
( ) regional language.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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