Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the seventh year of elementary school, about an old donkey. Once, the muleteers needed to make a long journey and the donkeys would carry many loads. The muleteers decided that each of these animals should choose its load and that the first to do so would be the oldest donkey. He, to the jeers of others, chose the heaviest load. What is this load? Why did he choose her? Are you curious to know the continuity of the story? So, read the text carefully Living and learning. Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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Carefully read the text below. Then answer the proposed interpretative questions:
Once, a group of drovers had to make a long journey and there was a lot of load to be carried by the donkeys.
They then decided to let each donkey choose what he wanted to carry and the choice should be made in order of age.
The oldest of the donkeys, the first on the list, chose precisely the biggest basket, the heaviest of all, the one that took the muleteers' food.
The other donkeys brayed with laughter:
– What an ass! The older, the dumber!
And there went the old donkey, weighed down under the weight of the basket and the mockery of his companions. But inside, I kept thinking:
"Laughs best who laughs last!"
But as the journey proceeded, at each stop the men helped themselves to food from the basket carried by the old donkey.
So, in a few days, he was very happy and light, slack with his almost empty basket.
Meanwhile, the other donkeys who had ridiculed him were panting with the weight of their loads, which had not lessened one bit!
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Question 1 - Identify the fact that motivated the story:
( ) the oldest donkey chose to carry the heaviest load.
() the muleteers decided that each donkey should choose the load it would carry.
( ) the muleteers needed to make a long journey and the donkeys would carry a lot of loads.
Question 2 - In the excerpt “[…] the choice should be made in order of age.”, the narrator explains:
( ) the doubt of the muleteers regarding the choice of cargo.
( ) the suggestion of the muleteers regarding the choice of cargo.
( ) the orientation of the muleteers regarding the choice of cargo.
Question 3 - In the speech "The older, the dumber!", the word "dumb" works as:
( ) adjective.
( ) pronoun.
( ) substantive.
Question 4 – In the excerpt “And there went the old donkey, weighed down by the basket and the mockery of the companions.”, the underlined word indicates:
( ) the sum of facts.
( ) the opposition of facts.
( ) the alternation of facts.
Question 5 - In “Laughs best who laughs last!”, the quotation marks indicate:
( ) the narrator's thinking.
( ) the thinking of the older donkey.
( ) the thinking of younger donkeys.
Question 6 – In the passage “But, as the journey followed its course […]”, the highlighted expression expresses the idea of:
( ) condition.
( ) goal.
( ) proportion.
Question 7 – In the segment "Meanwhile, the other donkeys that O had ridiculed […]", the underlined term was used for:
( ) take back the old donkey.
( ) introduce the old donkey.
( ) characterize the old donkey.
Question 8 – What does it mean to say that the other donkeys “heaved with the weight of their loads”?
( ) It means to say that the other donkeys were panting with the weight of their loads.
( ) It means to say that the other donkeys suffocated with the weight of their loads.
( ) Means to say that the other donkeys perspired with the weight of their loads.
Question 9 – At the end of the story, it is clear that the choice of the old donkey was revealed:
( ) you knew.
( ) fruitless.
( ) inconsequential.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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