Text interpretation activity aimed at students in the sixth year of elementary school. O explanatory text entitles itself Why do we sweat cold when we are afraid? Do you know? No? So, be sure to read the text and do the activities about it!
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Find out where your body's unexpected reaction to risky situations comes from
You are taking a walk through the forest and suddenly a hungry bear comes out of the cave running towards you. Your heart almost jumps out of your mouth and the hairs on your arms all stand on end. Your legs feel like they get a little engine and you run like an athlete. At the same time, an icy wave runs through your body and you sweat cold. All of this was triggered by fear, which caught you in fright!
Okay, you might not run into a bear in the woods, but a ferocious dog on a deserted street maybe, isn't it? Cold sweat is just one of our body's many reactions to a situation of stress or threat.
As a result of fear, our bodies undergo a revolution. In short, the brain signals the heart that it's time to speed up, pumping more blood – ah! and with a lot of adrenaline (a substance that prepares the body for great efforts) – for the muscles, so that they work better. Meanwhile, due to the excess of blood directed to the muscles, the organs of the abdomen and the skin start to receive less blood, and that's the reason why we feel the feeling of butterflies in the stomach, the skin is cold with sweat and starts to shiver - brrrr!
This sudden change in body functioning prepares us to flee or fight, just as cavemen did. At that time, they had to live with huge animals like prehistoric bears. If they were caught, they still had a chance to escape, due to the sweat-soaked skin, which became more slippery, making escape easier.
Today, we no longer need to run away from bears, but other situations make us sweat cold with fear, don't we?
Rafael Freire. Available in: .
Question 1 - Identify the purpose of who wrote the text read:
a) narrate a story.
b) express an opinion.
c) confront an idea.
d) provide an explanation.
Question 2 - In the passage “Find out where this unexpected reaction of your body to risky situations comes from […]”, the author wishes to:
a) to thrill the reader.
b) invite the reader.
c) amuse the reader.
d) learn from the reader.
Question 3 - Mark the part of the text in which the author presents the body's reactions, due to fear, colloquially:
a) "Your heart almost jumps out of your mouth and the hairs on your arms are all standing up."
b) “[…] the brain signals to the heart that it is time to speed up, pumping more blood […]”
c) “[…] a lot of adrenaline…. for the muscles […]"
d) “[…] the organs of the abdomen and the skin start to receive less blood […]”
Question 4 – Find the passage where the author defines “cold sweat”:
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Question 5 - The information, inserted in parentheses, consists of:
a) an example
b) an observation
c) a deduction
d) a definition
Question 6 – Point out the referents of the pronoun "they" in the following sentences:
a) “[…] in order for them to work better.”
( ) the muscles
( ) the organs of the abdomen
b) “[…] they needed to live with huge animals […]”
( ) cavemen
( ) prehistoric bears
Question 7 – The underlined term works like a verb in:
( ) “[…] a hungry bear runs out of the cave in the your direction."
( ) “Your legs look like they get a little engine and you run like an athlete.”
( ) “[…] an icy wave runs through your body and you your cold."
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
At answers are in the link above the header.
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