Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the fifth year of elementary school, about plastic islands. Have you ever heard of them? Not? So be sure to read the text! Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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The plastic bags that pack your groceries can end up in the middle of the ocean. Really! In these areas, they (and other similar packages) form large “islands of garbage”, or rather, regions with a high concentration of plastics. You might be wondering how bags can travel so much. The answer lies in the careless disposal, directly in the streets, from where they can be dragged by the rains until they reach a river. And as rivers flow into the sea, that's it! There they are!
Now think: who is behind all this? Yes, the human. It may be hard to believe, but many people think that streets, green areas, rivers and the seas themselves are suitable places to dispose of garbage. These people cannot imagine the consequences of this for the environment. Plastics, for example, do not disintegrate easily. Even after months traveling in salt water, they remain intact, floating through the seas and eventually being sucked into some of the great whirlpools, known as "gyros", which are present in the oceans. Thus, plastics accumulate in these regions and form gigantic islands of garbage, which today cover about 700,000 square kilometers – six times the size of Acre!
But not all plastic floats. There's a lot of trash under the water too. Bottles, fishing nets and a bunch of other things that people throw were pile up not just in the vicinity of these whirlpools – there is garbage on Brazilian beaches and even on the isolated islands of Antarctica!
All this dirt harms marine animals. Birds can become trapped in pieces of plastic and turtles suffocate to death when they mistake bags and other packaging for the jellyfish they feed on. To solve this problem, we need to reduce waste, produce even disposable packaging and get industries to recycle more plastic. Are you playing your part in this story?
João Paulo Machado Torres.
“Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 252.
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Question 1 – In “In these areas, they (and other similar packages) form large 'islands of garbage' […]”, the highlighted term refers to:
Question 2 – According to the text, how do plastic bags reach the oceans?
Question 3 – Watch:
“[…] they form gigantic islands of garbage, which today cover about 700,000 square kilometers – six times the size of Acre!”
The exclamation point was used, after this passage, to express in relation to the fact the feeling of:
Question 4 – In the segment "Plastics, for example, do not disintegrate easily.”, the underlined word indicates:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 5 - According to the text, turtles die suffocated with plastic packaging. Why do they ingest these packages?
Question 6 – The author of the text converses directly with the reader in the passage:
( ) “Now, think: who is behind all this? Yes, the human being.”
( ) “There is a lot of garbage under the water too.”
( ) "All this dirt harms marine animals."
Question 7 – Read back:
“[…] we need to reduce waste, produce even disposable packaging and get industries to recycle more plastic. Are you playing your part in this story?”
In this passage, the author of the text:
( ) criticizes the reader.
( ) gives an order to the reader.
( ) seeks to make the reader aware.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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