activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the fifth year of elementary school, about the house. One day, a sheep and a pig went out into the world to look for a home.. What will happen from there? Let's find out? So, read the text carefully! Then answer the various interpretive questions proposed!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
One day, a sheep and a pig went out into the world to look for a home.
“Let's build a house and live together.
They walked and walked and found a rabbit.
"Where are you two going?"
“Let's make a house.
"Can I live with you?"
'How are you going to help?'
“I can cut wood with my teeth and put it together with my paws.
- Excellent. May come.
They walked and walked and found a goose.
- Where are you going?
“Let's make a house.
"Can I live with you?"
'How are you going to help?'
— I can gather clay and cover the cracks with my beak.
- Excellent. May come.
They walked and walked and found a rooster.
"Where are you four going?"
“Let's make a house.
"Can I live with you?"
'How are you going to help?'
“I sing early in the morning and I can wake you up.
- Excellent. May come.
They walked and walked and found a good place to live.
The ram felled trees. The pig made bricks. The rabbit cut wood. The goose gathered clay. And the rooster crowed every morning to wake everyone up.
And they lived happily in the house.
Extracted from the work “The Book of Virtues”.
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Question 1 - The above text is intended to:
( ) make you reflect.
( ) report a fact.
( ) publicize a place.
Question 2 – In the passage “One day a sheep and a pig went out into the world to look for a house.”, the highlighted passage expresses:
( ) a cause.
( ) a purpose.
( ) a consequence.
Question 3 – In the part “—Let’s build a house and live together.”, the dash marks:
( ) the beginning of the speech of the sheep and the pig.
( ) a pause in the speech of the sheep and the pig.
( ) the continuity of the speech of the sheep and the pig.
Question 4 – Identify the animal that, according to the text, said “— I can cut wood with my teeth and put it together with my paws.”:
( ) A rabbit.
( ) a goose.
( ) a rooster.
Question 5 – In the question “— How will you help?”, the word “How” expresses:
( ) mode.
( ) Comparation.
( ) conformity.
Question 6 - In “They walked, walked and found a good place to live.”, the term “and” indicates:
( ) facts that add up.
( ) facts that alternate.
( ) facts that contrast.
Question 7 - The fragment “And they lived happily in the little house.” It is:
( ) a narration.
( ) a description.
( ) an argument.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.