activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the sixth and seventh years of elementary school, with questions based on the text The Bear and the Travelers.
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(Aesop's Fable retold by Ana Maria Machado)
Two friends were traveling along a road when, suddenly, a bear appeared.
Before the animal saw them, one of the men ran to a tree by the side of the road, hung on to a branch and managed to pull the body up and get hidden among the leaves. The other one wasn't as fast and, as he was very heavy, he didn't have the strength to climb on his own. He hung there for a while, and when he realized that it would be impossible to escape that way, he threw himself on the ground and pretended to be dead.
When the bear got very close, it was walking around the man smelling him everywhere, the poor guy held his breath and lay still, only with his heart pounding.
They say that bears do not attack corpses and it must be true, because the animal ended up giving up, convinced that the man had really died. Ended up leaving.
When there was no more danger, the traveler who was in the tree came down. Curious, he asked the other what was it that the bear whispered in his ear so much, when he put his nose to his ear.
– Oh, he was advising me never again to travel with a friend who leaves me alone at the first sign of danger!
It is in difficult times that we know the sincerity of friends.
MACHADO, Ana Maria.
The treasure of virtues for children.
Rio de Janeiro: New Frontier, 1999.
1) The textual genre of the text above is a fable, mark some characteristics of this genre:
a) ( ) Narrative of real character.
b) ( ) Animals are personified characters.
c) ( ) Dissemination of values.
d) ( ) There is no presence of the narrator.
2) Mention the strategies adopted by friends to escape the bear.
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3) Identify the THEME of the text “THE BEAR AND TRAVELERS”, by Ana Maria Machado.
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4) In the passage “Two friends were traveling along a road when, suddenly, a bear appeared.”, classify the highlighted word.
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5) Rewrite the sentence pairs, joining them together. To do this, use one of the following conjunctions:
But – And – For – When.
a) The traveler quickly climbed the tree. The traveler was afraid of the giant bear.
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b) The two travelers stopped. The travelers saw the bear.
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c) The bear was really hungry. The bear gave up eating the travelers.
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6) “The bear, seeing him, approached little by little. But this animal, which does not eat corpses, as they say, began to look at it, to touch it: to observe it, to examine it.” Rewrite the excerpt below, replacing “The Bear” with “Two Bears”:
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7) Identify the moral of the fable.
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8) In your opinion, what is the function of the moral of the story?
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9) “Oh, he was advising me never again to travel with a friend who leaves me alone at the first sign of danger!”. Is the highlighted word in the connotative or denotative sense? Explain:
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10) Suppose your best friend skipped class on the day the teacher studied the text “THE BEAR AND THE TRAVELERS”. Through WhatsApp, he sent you a message asking you to send a photo of the summary of what was studied in this class. In the space below, make your very neat summary!
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