Activity of text interpretation, aimed at fifth graders, about reindeer. Did you know that flies are enemies of Santa's reindeer? Let's understand this subject better? So, read the text carefully! Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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Do you know those animals that in movies and cartoons appear pulling Santa's sleigh? É! Reindeer! They are not animals from countries with a hot climate like ours, they really live in northern Europe and the Americas, in places where thermometers reach up to fifty degrees below zero in the Winter.
Brrrr!!! Know that a reindeer can weigh up to 300 kilos, measure almost five feet in height, run up to 70 kilometers an hour and still suffer terribly from the small… flies! Really! With mosquitoes, too.In the wild, reindeer are hunted by wolves, bears and lynx. Despite this, the biggest source of annoyance for them is the flies. Who would say?! During the short summer of the North Pole, thousands of mosquitoes, flies and blackflies force the reindeer to leave a place where there is plenty of food because they are bitten and bothered so much.
The result is that reindeer eat less, become thinner and weaker. The chicks in the herd that are still nursing are also affected by flies, growing less because they are drinking milk from a mother who is not feeding properly. A shame!
But reindeer don't give up. They form groups of up to ninety thousand animals and walk a lot, and well together, in search of food, being able to walk up to five thousand kilometers in a year – a record among terrestrial mammals!
Now, are you ready for a revelation? Reindeer don't fly as legend has it. But they are actually used for pulling sleds. With a weak spine, they are not ideal for carrying a lot of weight, but they can pull a sled weighing about 100 kilos at ten kilometers an hour. In northern Europe they are used for this purpose and also to provide milk, meat, wool. The domesticated herds of reindeer are equivalent to cows around here.
It turns out that being a reindeer in real life is not a fairy tale.
Rodrigo Hirata Willemart and Renata de Paula Orofino.
“Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 274.
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Question 1 - In the passage “They are not animals from countries with a hot climate like ours, they really live in northern Europe and the Americas […]”, the authors refer to:
Question 2 - Reread this fragment:
“[…] thousands of mosquitoes, flies and black flies force the reindeer to leave a place where there is plenty of food they are bitten and bothered so much.”
The highlighted excerpt reads:
( ) the cause of a fact.
( ) the duration of an event.
( ) the purpose of a fact.
Question 3 - Transcribe the part of the text in which the authors reveal the consequences in the lives of reindeer, arising from the mandatory departure from a place where there is plenty of food:
Question 4 - Watch:
“[…] walking up to 5,000 kilometers in one year – a record among terrestrial mammals!”
After the excerpt above, the authors used the exclamation point to express, in relation to the fact, the feeling of:
Question 5 - In the sentence “But they are really used to pull sleds.”, the underlined word indicates:
( ) a correction made by the authors.
( ) a confirmation made by the authors.
( ) a comparison made by the authors.
Question 6 – Underline the word that uses the following paddles:
"In northern Europe, they are used for this purpose and also to provide milk, meat, wool."
Question 7 – Identify the segment that contains an author's comment:
( ) "In the wild, reindeer are hunted by wolves, bears and lynx."
( ) “They form groups of up to ninety thousand animals and walk a lot […]”
( ) “You realize that being a reindeer in real life is not a fairy tale.”
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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