activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the fifth year of elementary school, about disobedient mice. What were they up to, huh? Let's know the story of these mice? So read the text very carefully! Then answer the various interpretive questions proposed!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
The mouse and the mouse were two brothers who lived with their mother in a hole on a farm. There they were warm and sheltered, safe from the inclement weather. Their mama gave them all the food they needed and they had nothing to worry about.
When their mother told them to go to sleep, they always obeyed, annoyed. One fine night, they went in search of their friends; the stars were shining in the sky and it was so nice to be outside!
As far as they went, they didn't find any of their friends; these, of course, slept soundly.
They kept walking, walking, until they realized that they had come a long way from their home; they did not know the landscape that surrounded them. They were afraid because the wind began to howl and the darkness became menacing.
They hugged each other and suddenly they heard a noise. They shuddered in amazement. Could it be a cat? Time seemed to have stopped and the person responsible for the noise was slowly approaching. Their teeth began to chatter in fear, unable to make any move. They felt that their last hour had come, since it was certainly their fiercest enemy: the cat.
But in the end, everything turned out well. The mother had gone looking for them and it was she who had made the noise. The two mice returned to the house very happy. They had had a rough time and they wouldn't do it again. […]
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Question 1 - The text about the disobedient mice is:
( ) A tale.
( ) a fable.
( ) a chronicle.
Question 2 – In "There they were warm and sheltered, safe from the inclemencies of the weather.”, the highlighted term refers to a place. Identify this place:
Question 3 – In “Your mama gave them all the food they needed and they had nothing to worry about..”, the fact underlined:
( ) explains the above.
( ) is opposed to the previous one.
( ) is added to the previous one.
Question 4 – In the passage “When mommy told them to go to sleep, they obeyed ever contrariados.”, the underlined word indicates:
( ) mode.
( ) time.
( ) intensity.
Question 5 - According to the story, the little mouse and the mouse “did not find any of their friends”. Why?
Question 6 - The narrator reveals, in the fourth paragraph, that the mice “felt afraid”, because:
( ) “they had moved far away from their home”.
( ) “they did not know the landscape that surrounded them”.
( ) “the wind began to howl and the darkness became threatening”.
Question 7 - Read back:
“They hugged each other and suddenly they heard a noise. They shuddered in amazement. Could it be a cat? Time seemed to have stopped and the person responsible for the noise was approaching […]”
This snippet is:
( ) the beginning of the story.
( ) the climax of the story.
( ) the end of the story.
Question 8 - It can be said that the mice learned a lesson about disobedience. Tick the segment that proves this statement:
( ) “The mother had gone looking for them and it was she who had made the noise.”
( ) “The two mice returned home very happy.”
( ) “They had a bad time and would not repeat the feat.”
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
