Text interpretation: The Wind and the Sun

activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the fifth year of elementary school, on the Wind and the Sun. They were disputing to see which of the two was the more powerful. Which won the contest, huh? Let's find out? So read the story very carefully! Then answer the various interpretive questions proposed!

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

The Wind and the Sun

The Wind and the Sun were vying to see which of the two was more powerful. The Sun, seeing a walker on the road, thought carefully, and proposed a bet to the Wind.

"I know how to decide our dispute!" said the radiant sun.

“The one of us who can make the walker take off his jacket will be the winner. You start.

And he withdrew, going behind a huge cloud, peeking out now and then.

Then the Wind began to blow, and to blow, and to blow… and to huff!

And the walker began to cower, clinging to his jacket. The more the Wind blew, lifting the hiker's jacket, the more he clung and covered himself, preventing his precious protection from flying away.

So much the Wind blew, and sand shot into the walker's eyes, which he increasingly wrapped around his jacket, preventing the Wind from ripping it from his body. Finally the Wind gave up and said to the Sun:

- Now it's your turn.

Then the Sun came. It began to shine, to shine with great intensity. The traveler, already tired from fighting the Wind, began to sweat too much. He felt so hot, he soon ended up taking off his jacket.

The Sun showed that we can achieve things without force or violence.

Adriana Toledo. “One story a day”. Colibrink, p.19.

Questions

Question 1 - Identify the passage in which the narrator of the story reveals the purpose of the dispute between the Wind and the Sun:

Question 2 – Underline the word that indicates the way the Sun thought:

“The Sun, seeing a walker on the road, thought carefully, and proposed a bet to the Wind.”

Question 3 – In “—I know how to decide our dispute!”, the dash marks:

( ) the beginning of the speech of the Sun.

( ) a pause in the Sun's speech.

( ) an explanation of the speech of the Sun.

Question 4 – In the segment “Then the Wind began to blow, and to blow, and to blow… and to huff!”, the narrator of the story repeats the verb “to blow”. Because?

Question 5 - In the part “[…] he increasingly wrapped himself in his jacket […]”, the term “he” refers to:

( ) in the sun.

( ) To the wind.

( ) to the walker.

Question 6 - Read back:

“It felt so hot, who soon ended up taking off his jacket.”

The highlighted fact is:

( ) the cause of the above.

( ) the condition of the former.

( ) the consequence of the above.

Question 7 - The end of the story reveals that:

( ) the Sun won the contest.

( ) the Wind won the dispute.

( ) the dispute did not have a winner.

Question 8 - Watch:

“The Sun showed that we can achieve things without force or violence.”

By reading this passage, it is clear that the text intends to:

( ) make you reflect.

( ) discuss an issue.

( ) publicize something.

By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.