Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the fifth year of elementary school, about an invasive tamarin. What is this embarrassment, huh? Let's find out? So, read the text carefully! Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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Before calling the animal a crasher or a tourist, it's worth knowing more about it. Let's see then! the tamarin or Callithrix jacchus, as scientists prefer to call it, is a species of arboreal primate, that is, one that lives in trees. It's small, weighs around 350 grams, and this makes it agile to climb, jump, climb and descend from large trees and even grip strong trunks.
The star tamarin's menu is a lot varied! It includes fruits, insects, plant nectar, flowers, seeds, fungi, molluscs, eggs and small vertebrates. Physically, he is showy: he has light gray fur with brown and black highlights, tail that alternates rings of color. light and dark brown and on the head it has white spots and tufts of hair also in white above and in front of the ears. I already know! I already know! You've seen him around, haven't you? Chances are, yes.
Although the place of origin of the tamarin is the Caatinga, in the Northeast, the species can be seen in other regions of Brazil, especially in the South and Southeast. The reason it ended up so far?
Researchers believe that this primate's chicks were illegally sold on the roads of northeastern Brazil. Thus, people from other states bought the tamarins and took them away from their habitat. To complete, the species proliferated because it manages to survive very well in several types of forests, so much so that today it is easily seen in other areas of Brazil.
Marina Trancoso Zaluar and Oscar Rocha-Barbosa.
“Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 233.
Available in:. (Fragment).
Question 1 - Read back:
"The tamarin or Callithrix jacchus, as scientists prefer to call it, is a species of arboreal primate, that is, it lives in trees.”
In this excerpt, the authors:
( ) issue a conclusion.
( ) express an opinion.
( ) make a presentation.
Question 2 – In the passage “It's small, it weighs about 350 grams, and that The makes it agile to climb […]”, the underlined word:
( ) calls the tamarin.
( ) retakes the tamarin.
( ) characterizes the tamarin.
Question 3 – In the part “[…] jumping, climbing and descending from large trees and until it clings to strong trunks.”, the highlighted term indicates:
( ) addition.
( ) opposition.
( ) explanation.
Question 4 – Watch:
"Physically, he is showy: he has light gray fur with brown and black highlights, a tail that alternates light brown and dark rings, and white spots on the head […]"
This text segment is:
( ) a narration.
( ) a description.
( ) an argument.
Question 5 - According to the authors of the text, the tamarin appeared:
( ) in the south.
( ) in the Southeast.
( ) in the Northeast.
Question 6 – According to the text, "people from other states bought the tamarins and took them away from their habitat." How did they buy the tamarins?
Question 7 – According to the text, the tamarin “proliferated because it manages to survive very well in various types of forests”. In other words, the tamarin:
( ) “it spread because it manages to survive very well in various types of forests”.
( ) “it controlled itself because it manages to survive very well in various types of forests”.
( ) “it was transformed because it manages to survive very well in various types of forests”.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.