Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the fifth year of elementary school, about a singer from the forest. What singer is this, huh? Let's meet her? So, read the text carefully! Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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Among the most famous singing birds, the araponga stands out because it produces a very loud sound – really loud! His singing is shrill, like the sound of a hammer hitting an anvil: "Hang!" Because of this, he earned the nickname of blacksmith and is considered one of the most powerful voices in the Atlantic Forest.
The Araponga also draws attention for its plumage. The male is completely white, with the throat and area around the eyes featherless and greenish-blue in color. The female is more discreet. Despite being colored, its plumage has light tones: the back is olive green, the sides and top of the head are gray and the throat, which is also gray, has whitish stripes. She also has a pale yellow belly streaked with olive green. The beak, both male and female, is black.
Speaking of beaks, this is a part where the spider is quite different from most birds, as it can open it a lot. This is how she manages to snatch up large fruits, such as palm trees, which are broken and swallowed in pieces; as for the small fruits, she swallows them whole.
Even listening to its sound through the forest, it is difficult to see the spider because its song echoes among the trees, giving the feeling that it comes from different sides. In addition, this bird flies high and usually lands in the canopy of trees, which makes observation even more difficult. […]
The female lays a reddish-brown egg. Its nest is shaped like a shallow bowl. Among the materials he uses to build it are mosses and the roots of epiphytes – a type of plant that uses shrubs and trees as support.
Like the other species in its family, the Araponga plays an important role in maintaining forests. It spreads the seeds of the plants it feeds on through feces or regurgitation, that is, when it vomits - gh! – the seeds it swallowed.
The spider is threatened by the deforestation of its habitat and – imagine! – for your singing! Its song attracts hunters, who capture the bird to sell. Report it, if you see such a bird for sale, so that the spider will continue to release its voice in freedom and continue to spread seeds in the forest, helping to maintain the Atlantic Forest.
Lívia Dias Cavalcante de Souza, Luciana Barcante and Maria Alice S. Alves.
“Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 232.
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Question 1 - In the passage “Your singing is shrill, it sounds like the sound of a hammer hitting an anvil: “Pengue!”, the text refers to the singing:
Question 2 – The excerpt “[…] the back is olive green, the sides and top of the head are gray and the throat, which is also gray, has whitish stripes.” It's:
( ) a narration.
( ) a description.
( ) an argument.
Question 3 – According to the text, the araponga “succeeds at capturing large fruits, such as palm trees”. Why?
Question 4 – The authors of the text mention the factors that make it difficult to observe the spider. Transcribe these factors:
Question 5 - In the segment “Like the other species in its family, the spider plays an important role in the maintenance of forests.”, the term “How”:
( ) expresses a cause.
( ) introduces an example.
( ) starts a comparison.
Question 6 – According to the text, the spider disperses the seeds of the plants it feeds on in two ways. Among these forms is regurgitation. What is regurgitating?
( ) "defecate".
( ) "to vomit".
( ) "Swallow".
Question 7 – In “Report, if you see such a bird for sale, so that the spider can continue to release its voice in freedom and continue to spread seeds in the forest […]”, the authors seek:
( ) warn the reader.
( ) advise the reader.
( ) make the reader aware.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
