Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the fifth year of elementary school, about the drunken leopard. Leopard dad had no remedy. He only thought about drinking. But don't think it was water, no! It was wine! Did he manage to overcome this addiction? Will we know how this story unfolds? To do so, read it carefully! Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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Leopard dad had no remedy. He only thought about drinking. But don't think it was water, no! It was wine!
The nocturnal animals of the jungle watched him stumble, moon or no, on his way home, completely drunk. What a sad addiction for him!
"I'm…not…b…ba…drunk…no, miss…ha!" said the leopard to his wife, when she reproached him for his behavior when he saw him arriving home late at night.
The family was very unhappy because of this problem. The arguments between the couple were continuous and the children were ashamed of their father's attitudes.
This defect aside, the leopard was very friendly and sociable; that's why he had many friends in the jungle. Everyone wanted to help him so he could get rid of this horrible addiction.
They managed to convince the leopard that alone he might not be able to change his habits. Then they formed a group of friends, with whom the leopard began meeting weekly to talk about his problem. In this way, and with the help of the whole family as well, the leopard made a firm decision to stop drinking, which was doing so much harm to him and his own family.
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Question 1 - In the passage “I only thought about drinking.”, the narrator refers:
Question 2 - In the excerpt “What a sad vice he is!”, the narrator:
( ) exposes an opinion.
( ) raises a hypothesis.
( ) presents a justification.
Question 3 - In “—I…I'm…not…b…bab…Drunk…no, mr…ra!”, the dash:
( ) marks the beginning of the leopard's speech.
( ) marks a pause in the leopard's speech.
( ) indicates the continuity of the leopard's speech.
Question 4 – In the part “[…] the leopard said to his wife, when it is censured his conduct when he saw him arriving home late at night.”, the underlined word refers to:
( ) to the leopard's house.
( ) to the leopard's wife.
( ) the behavior of the leopard.
Question 5 - According to the story, the leopard “had many friends in the jungle” because:
( ) “he was very friendly and sociable”.
( ) “the children were ashamed of their father's attitudes”.
( ) “they saw him stumbling along, with or without the moon, on his way home”.
Question 6 – Reread this text fragment:
"Everyone wanted to help him so he could get rid of this horrible addiction.”
The highlighted fact is:
( ) the cause of the previous fact.
( ) the purpose of the previous fact.
( ) the consequence of the previous fact.
Question 7 – In the part “[…] the leopard started to find itself weekly to talk about your problem.”, the underlined term indicates:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 8 – In the segment “[…] that was doing so much harm to him and his own family.”, the word “so much” was used to:
( ) intensify.
( ) characterize.
( ) complementary.
Question 9 – The text about the drunken leopard aims to:
( ) make people reflect.
( ) give some news.
( ) disclose something.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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