Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the seventh year of elementary school, about the Mimeograph. You got to know this copying device that left the whole room reeking of alcohol? No? So, read the text and get to know the history of this machine, present in schools in past decades! Then, be sure to answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
The copy machine left the entire room reeking of alcohol and was once the king of the classroom. Know your story
In the 70s and 80s, almost all schools had a mimeograph, a device to reproduce at low cost serial copies of texts. It looked like a printing press, only very simple and homemade. The teacher wrote by hand or typed the exercises on a special sheet, the stencil, which had carbon. The text would then appear on the opposite side of the sheet, placed on the machine's roll with the written part facing up. The crank was turned and copies began to come out. The process took a little while, but it worked.
The stencil was actually a matrix, which only passed the text to another sheet because in the middle there was a felt moistened with alcohol. The amount of liquid determined the clarity of the print. The more alcohol, the stronger the text came out. The copies produced were unmistakable: they smelled of alcohol, and the letters came in a distinctive purplish blue.
The first model was the crank, but more advanced variations, such as the electric mimeograph, emerged. Despite widespread use in the 20th century, the machine was invented a century earlier. The simplest prototype had a patent registered in 1887, by the American scientist and businessman Thomas Edison. Known as the Wizard of Menlo Park (a reference to the city where his workshops operated), he registered 2,332 patents throughout his life, including the phonograph and the telephone.
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Question 1 - In “The copy machine left the whole room reeking of alcohol and was once the king of the classroom.”, what does the author of the text refer to?
Question 2 - In the prayer “Know your history […]”, the author of the text:
( ) invites the reader.
( ) gives advice to the reader.
( ) expresses an order to the reader.
Question 3 - Reread this excerpt:
“[…] a mimeograph, a device to reproduce at low cost serial copies of texts.”
In the excerpt above, the author:
( ) evaluates the mimeograph.
( ) defines the mimeograph.
( ) characterizes the mimeograph.
Question 4 – In the sentence “The teacher wrote by hand or typed the exercises on a special sheet […]", the underlined verbs express:
( ) ephemeral actions of teachers in the 70s and 80s.
( ) continuous actions of teachers in the 70s and 80s.
( ) hypothetical actions of teachers in the 70s and 80s.
Question 5 - The author of the text claims that the copies produced by the mimeograph were unmistakable. Because?
Question 6 – In the period “The process was a little slow, but it solved.”, the word “but” was used to express:
( ) a contrast.
( ) one caveat.
( ) a compensation.
Question 7 – In the passage “[…] more advanced variations appeared, such as the electric mimeograph.”, the word “how”:
( ) indicates an example.
( ) expresses a cause.
( ) establishes a comparison.
Question 8 – In the segment “[…] between them the phonograph and the telephone.”, the pronoun “they” performs the function of resuming:
( ) "more advanced variations"
( ) "your workshops"
( ) "patents"
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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