Text Interpretation: Where is John

Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the seventh year of elementary school, about the joão-de-barba-grisalha. According to the text, to meet João, you have to travel along forest trails in the Amazon, go through narrow paths, very flooded, and rivers. Let's meet this bird? For this, carefully read the text “Where is John?”. Afterwards, answer the various interpretative questions proposed!

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Carefully read the text. Then answer the proposed questions:

Where is John?

To meet João, you have to travel along forest trails in the Amazon, through narrow paths, very flooded, and rivers. And as if that weren't enough, it's still necessary to ask a chief for information, because João especially lives in indigenous lands. Who is this John guy? It is the gray-bearded joão, a rare bird that is threatened with extinction.

The gray-bearded joão has a reddish-brown color, with a black throat with white spots, which resembles a… Gray beard! That's why, of course, it got that name. he belongs to the family Furnariidae, the same as joão-de-barro, famous for building their nests with clay.

The greybeard has spent more than 160 years without being seen by scientists and little is known about its habits, only that it feeds mainly on arthropods and builds a very large nest in relation to its size. Today, the total population of the species is estimated by specialists at only five thousand individuals.

As it is very difficult to find, the bird ended up being placed on the list of endangered animals. The species' situation only worsens with the cultivation of rice on the banks of rivers and within indigenous reserves, places where it lives. The cultivation is carried out illegally by non-indigenous farmers, harming the quality of the water and destroying the habitat of the gray-bearded joão.

Mariana M. OK. “Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 191. Available in: .

Questions

Question 1 - In “To meet João, you have to travel along forest trails in the Amazon, go through narrow paths […]”, to which João does the text refer?

 A:

Question 2 - In the passage “[…] it is still necessary to ask a chief for information, why João especially inhabits indigenous lands.”, the highlighted term introduces:

( ) a fact that adds to the previous fact.

( ) a fact that explains the previous fact.

( ) a fact that opposes the previous fact.

Question 3 - In “The gray-bearded joão has a reddish-brown color […]”, the author of the text:

( ) describes the gray-bearded joão.

( ) makes a comment about the gray-bearded joão.

( ) raises a hypothesis about the gray-bearded joão.

Question 4 - In prayer “[…] only that it feeds principally of arthropod […]”, the highlighted word could be replaced by:

( ) especially.

( ) Apparently.

( ) specifically.

Question 5 - In the part “[…] build a very large nest in relation to its size.”, the word “very” was used to:

( ) explain a characteristic of the graybeard's nest.

( ) intensify a characteristic of the graybeard's nest.

( ) complement a characteristic of the graybeard's nest.

Question 6 – Reread this excerpt:

“[…] the total population of the species is estimated by specialists at only five thousand individuals.”

Point out the alternative in which the excerpt above was rewritten in active voice:

( ) "Experts estimated the total population of the species at only five thousand individuals."

( ) "Experts estimate the total population of the species at only five thousand individuals."

( ) "The specialists will estimate the total population of the species at only five thousand individuals."

Question 7 – In the segment "Per being very difficult to find, the bird ended up being placed on the list of endangered animals.”, the underlined term indicates:

( ) the reason why the bird was placed on the list of endangered animals.

( ) the time the bird was placed on the list of endangered animals.

( ) the consequence of the bird being placed on the list of endangered animals.

Question 8 – Highlight the expression that expresses a circumstance in this period of the text:

"The cultivation is carried out illegally by non-Indian farmers, harming the quality of the water and destroying the habitat of the gray-bearded joão."

Per Denyse Lage Fonaseca Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

At answers are in the link above the header.

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