Text Interpretation: Digging to China

Text interpretation activity, aimed at students in the third year of elementary school, with questions developed about the text: Digging to China.

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Digging to China

The little friends are on the beach with the shovels and buckets.
– Let's dig a very, very deep hole! – says Giro, the giraffe.
– Sounds like fun – answers Silvia the snake, and the others agree.
After a while, they had dug a hole so deep that they could enter it without being seen.
Not even Giro, with his long neck!
“It's getting hard to shovel the sand out,” says Giro.
– What if we filled the buckets with sand and went from one to the other? – Silvia suggests.

This works fine. The excavation continues. Now there is water at the bottom of the hole.
Mr. Ptero, the variety store owner, goes for a walk. He looks into the hole.
– You know, if you keep digging like that, you'll make it to China! – he says, joking – Can you speak Chinese?
Friends stop working.
- I do not. - Answers Silvia, frowning - Is it serious? - she asks.
– Well, of course it is! - Answers Mr. Ptero.
– What if some kids in China are digging right now? – Silvia asks.
“So we'll have some visitors for a while,” Mr. Ptero replies and walks away.
Was he serious? Friends are not sure.
– We better learn Chinese! - Silvia laughs.

Questions

1) What is the title of the text?
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2) Where are the little friends and what did they take?
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3) What does Giro propose to friends?
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4) After a while it was difficult to remove the sand with the shovel, what idea does Silvia have?
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5) What does Mr. Ptero say to his little friends when he sees them digging so deep?
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6) What are little friends not sure of?
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Per Hélia Higa.

At answers are in the link above the header.

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