activity text interpretation, focused on fifth-year elementary school students, about cake. Do you know why it grows in the oven? No? Let's find out? So, read the text carefully! Then, answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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After Congratulations, comes the, let's say, sweetest time of the party: time to eat the cake. But how many transformations did this delicacy go through before arriving at the table? The cake, which at first was a soft, shapeless dough, grew and took shape in the oven. A metamorphosis that is due to chemistry. Do you want to see it alone?
What makes the cake rise is the instant chemical yeast used in the recipe. This type of yeast contains sodium bicarbonate and two acids. One acid is fast acting and the other is slow acting. When mixed with juice or milk – ingredients that contain water – the sodium bicarbonate and acids form carbon dioxide, which releases bubbles and expands the dough, making it rise.
Part of this process, as the name of the yeast suggests, is instantaneous. After all, as soon as it is mixed into the dough, the first acid – fast acting – begins to react with the water and releases a certain amount of carbon dioxide, which can be noticed during the preparation of the cake, as the dough already rises a little. The other acid – slow-acting – only reacts when the mixture goes into the oven. In the heat of the stove, it releases more carbon dioxide, causing the cake to rise even more.
When leaving the oven, the cake is beautiful and fluffy to everyone's delight. We can offer treats when we receive special visitors or on birthdays.
Joab Trajano Silva.
“Science Today for Children” magazine. Edition 175.
Available in:. (With cuts).
Question 1 – What is the purpose of the text above?
( ) explain something.
( ) disclose something.
( ) teach how to prepare something.
Question 2 – In “But how many transformations did this deliciousness go through before arriving at the table?”, what deliciousness does the text refer to?
Question 3 – The excerpt “This type of yeast contains sodium bicarbonate and two acids.” It is:
( ) a narration.
( ) a description.
( ) an argument.
Question 4 – Read back:
“[…] releases bubbles and expands the dough, making it rise.”
According to the text, what does this do?
( ) carbon dioxide.
( ) the slow-acting acid.
( ) the fast-acting acid.
Question 5 – In the passage “After all, as soon as is mixed with the dough, the first acid – fast acting – begins to react […]”, the underlined expression introduces the idea of:
( ) time.
( ) condition.
( ) proportion.
Question 6 – In the segment “[…] what can you notice while preparing the cake, then the dough is already growing a little.”, the highlighted term has the same meaning as:
( ) "but".
( ) "why".
( ) "therefore".
Question 7 – Watch:
“When it comes out of the oven, the cake is beautiful and fluffy to everyone’s delight.”
Identify the adjectives used to characterize the cake, after baking:
Question 8 – The author directly addresses the reader in some parts. Point out one of them:
( ) “A metamorphosis that is due to chemistry.”
( ) “Part of this process, as the name of the yeast suggests, is instantaneous.”
( ) “We can offer treats when we receive special visitors or on birthdays.”
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Literature and specialist in distance education.
