Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the fifth year of elementary school, on the defense of puffer fish. According to the text, what makes these fish curious is their ability to puff up their bodies like a birthday balloon! Will we know more about this? So, read the text carefully and then answer the proposed questions!
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Puffer fish is a fish. In fact, there are approximately 150 species of fish known as puffer fish. This group likes to inhabit coastal waters and also estuaries, which are the transitional waters between a river and a sea. There are also puffer fish that live in fresh water. But what makes these fish curious is their ability to swell up like a birthday balloon!
A “full” puffer fish can be up to three times its normal size. Now who knows why he does this? Good question! The puffer fish swells when it feels threatened. As he is a very agile swimmer, his resource to scare away predators is to swell up to nothing. Detail: some species of this group, when they swell, show their feared thorns.
Puffer fish achieve this feat because they have bags inside their bodies that are capable of filling with air or even water. In addition, the skin of these fish is elastic enough to support expansion in size and their backbone is too flexible to bend and adapt to their new body shape.
Do you already know everything about puffer fish? Nothing! After swelling and leaving the predator somewhat stunned, the puffer fish forcefully releases water or air from inside your body and gain incredible speed, increasing your chances of escaping from being devoured!
Britto Mari's rent. “Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 264.
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Question 1 - In “But what makes these fish curious is their ability to swell up their bodies like a birthday balloon!”, which fish does the text refer to?
Question 2 - In the excerpt “[…] are the transitional waters between a river and a sea.”, the author defines:
( ) “estuaries”.
( ) “coastal waters”.
( ) none of the above.
Question 3 - In the first paragraph, the exclamation point was used to express, in relation to a fact about puffer fish, the feeling:
( ) of fear.
( ) of joy.
( ) of admiration.
Question 4 – Reread this passage from the text:
“As he is a very agile swimmer, its resource to scare away predators is to swell to the point of failure.”
In this passage, the highlighted fact is:
( ) the cause of another.
( ) the purpose of another.
( ) the consequence of another.
Question 5 - In “The puffer fish achieve this feat why have inside the body some bags capable of filling with air […]”, the term underlined could be replaced by:
( ) "but".
( ) "because".
( ) "therefore".
Question 6 – In the segment “[…] it is very flexible to bend and adapt to the new body shape.”, the author refers:
( ) to the skin of puffer fish.
( ) to the body of puffer fish.
( ) to the backbone of puffer fish.
Question 7 – In the part “[…] the puffer fish releases hard the water […]”, the underlined expression indicates:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 8 – It can be concluded that the purpose of the text is:
( ) explain something.
( ) tell a story.
( ) make a disclosure.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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