Activity of text interpretation, aimed at fifth-year students, about the wolf and the donkey. A donkey was eating when he saw a hidden wolf spying on everything he did. What happened from there, huh? Did the wolf attack the donkey? Are we going to find out how this story unfolds? To do this, read it carefully! Then answer the proposed interpretive questions!
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A donkey was eating when he saw a hidden wolf spying on everything he did. Realizing he was in danger, the donkey devised a plan to save his skin. He pretended he was limping with the greatest difficulty. When the wolf appeared, the crying donkey said that he had stepped on a sharp thorn.
“Oh, oh, oh! Please get the thorn out of my paw! - begged. “If you don't, he'll skewer your throat when you swallow me.
The wolf didn't want to choke on his lunch. So when the donkey raised its paw, it began to look for the thorn very carefully. At that moment, the donkey gave the biggest kick of its life and ended the wolf's joy. While the wolf got up all in pain, the donkey galloped contentedly away.
Moral: Beware of unexpected favors.
Aesop. Available in:
(With adaptations).
Question 1 - The text is:
( ) A tale.
( ) a fable.
( ) a report.
Question 2 - The donkey's plan to save itself from the wolf begins when he:
( ) reveals to the wolf that he stepped on a thorn.
( ) pretends to have a limp with great difficulty.
( ) alerts the wolf to the danger of swallowing a thorn.
Question 3 - In “—Ouch, oh, oh! Please take the thorn out of my paw!”, the dash:
( ) announces the donkey's speech.
( ) marks the beginning of the donkey's speech.
( ) marks a pause in the donkey's speech.
Question 4 – In the part “— If you don't take it off, it'll skewer your throat when you swallow me.”, the word “he” refers to:
( ) to the wolf.
( ) to the donkey.
( ) to the thorn.
Question 5 - In the segment “[…] he started looking for the thorn very carefully.”, the underlined expression was used to indicate:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 6 – In the fragment “[…] the donkey gave the biggest kick of its life and ended the wolf's joy.”, the highlighted word expresses:
( ) the sum of facts.
( ) the conclusion of a fact.
( ) the justification of a fact.
Question 7 – Reread the outcome of the story:
"While the wolf got up all in pain, the donkey galloped contentedly away from there."
We can conclude that the donkey was an animal:
( ) astute.
( ) naive.
( ) lazy.
Question 8 – The excerpt "Moral: Beware of unexpected favors." It aims to:
( ) inform a fact.
( ) give a teaching.
( ) expose an assumption.
Question 9 – The story was written in a language:
( ) cultured.
( ) informal.
( ) regional.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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