Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the seventh year of elementary school, about locusts that know how to swim. According to the text, in addition to good singers and jumpers, some grasshoppers are also excellent swimmers. Very curious, isn't it? But why do they dive? Let's find out? To do this, read the text carefully. Did you know that some species of locusts can swim? Afterwards, answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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In addition to being good singers and jumpers, some grasshoppers are also excellent swimmers. You didn't expect this, did you? But it's true! There are species of grasshoppers that know how to swim and make long dives, which can last up to an hour. Let there be breath!
First of all, don't even try to sink that grasshopper that landed on your plant in the tank: it's going to drown. Let's stress again that only a few species have this ability. Swimming locusts develop specific physical characteristics. One is to have the third pair of legs flattened, which favors your movements underwater. To keep breathing for so long, these semiaquatic locusts also need another adaptation: their spiracles (holes through which the air enters) have longer-than-normal fur. As these animals dive, just as they sink their heads, they make two air bubbles, one on each side of the body, between their abdomen and their legs. While underwater, it will take oxygen right out of these bubbles. The longer hairs of the spiracles help to hold the air bubble close to the grasshopper's body.
And why do these locusts dive? See how curious: these species spend their lives in the water hyacinth, which are the plants that live on the edges of rivers, lakes and swamps. Grasshopper mothers lay their eggs inside the handles of these aquatic plants. Well, the biggest predators of locusts are the birds. And to escape them, the grasshoppers – pimba! – they dive and stay still, stuck to the submerged roots of the water hyacinth. Damned, huh?!
Marcos Gonçalves Lhano. “Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 182. Available in: .
Question 1 - Reread this text fragment:
“In addition to good singers and jumpers, some grasshoppers are also excellent swimmers”.
What does it mean to say that some locusts are excellent swimmers?
( ) Means to say that some locusts are cautious swimmers.
( ) It means to say that some locusts are excellent swimmers.
( ) Means to say that some locusts are fearless swimmers.
Question 2 - Identify the passage in which the underlined adjective indicates an opinion of the author:
( ) “[…] do dives long […]”
( ) “[…] third pair of legs flat […]”
( ) “Damaged, huh?!"
Question 3 - In “[…] don't even try to sink that grasshopper that landed on your plant in the tank: it's going to drown.”, the author of the text:
( ) gives advice.
( ) displays a request.
( ) gives a warning.
Question 4 – The species of locusts that the text presents to us are:
( ) terrestrial.
( ) aquatic.
( ) semi-aquatic.
Question 5 - In the passage “[…] its spiracles (holes through which the air enters) […]”, the part in parentheses:
( ) defines the term “spiracles”.
( ) uses the term “spiracles”.
( ) complements the term “spiracles”.
Question 6 – In the period "While is underwater, it will extract the oxygen exactly from these bubbles.”, the highlighted term establishes a relationship between the facts:
( ) time.
( ) opposition.
( ) Comparation.
Question 7 – In the segment “[…] are the plants that live on the banks of rivers, lakes and swamps.”, which plants does the text refer to?
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Question 8 – In the excerpt “And to escape them, the grasshoppers – pimba! – they dive and stay still […]”, the word “to” introduces:
( ) the purpose of locust diving.
( ) the intensity of the locust diving.
( ) the consequence of locust diving.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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