READING COMPREHENSION FOR 6º

ACTIVITY
Read the texts and answer the questions

WHAT IS A BANK?

Banks are places where people can keep their money. Most people use banks to save money in their savings accounts and to pay money from their checking accounts. Today, when a person earns money from their job, their paycheck is often electronically deposited (put) into their savings or checking account. Then, he or she can pay their bills by writing checks from their checking accounts or pay online where their bills are electronically connected to their bank accounts.

Banks also give loans to people. Banks use the money that their customers deposit to lend to people to buy new houses, cars, or to start businesses among other reasons. The bank makes money from lending by charging interest. In other words, people have to pay back more than they borrowed. This amount depends on how risky the bank thinks the borrower is and how fast the loan is paid back among other things.

QUESTIONS

1. How does "interest" work?

a. Banks require people to pay back more money than they borrowed.

b. Banks pay people more money than they borrowed.

c. Banks require people to pay back money they borrowed very quickly.

d.  Banks require people to pay back the same amount they borrowed.

2. How do banks make money?

 a. By having a lot of accounts

b. Electronically

c. Saving their customers deposits

d.  Charging interest to those they lend to

3. What do banks NOT do?

a.  provide a place for people to save their money

b. lend money to people

c.  provide a place where people can pay their bills from

d. help people get jobs

4. What do banks NOT do?

a. Tax people

b. Give loans

c. Charge interest

d. Allow people to pay bills online from their accounts

5. How much "interest" do borrowers have to pay?

a. Most borrowers don't have to pay interest.

 b. It depends on a lot of things.

c. Everyone pays the same amount of interest.

d. The story doesn't say.

GREEN

Green is a beautiful color! In nature, the grass that you walk on is green and the leaves that you see on trees are usually green. Most of the plants that you see are green, too! Frogs are green and many grasshoppers are green, too. Turtles are different shades of green.

Did you know that you can make green paint by mixing blue and yellow? Because you can make green by mixing two primary colors, it is called a secondary color. Green is also the name used to describe the movement to make products that do not harm the Earth. Green products are often those made from recycled materials or those that are safe to throw out in the trash.

1. What is a green product?

a.  One that is made from grass

b. One that is safe for Earth

c. One that is fun

d. One that is mixed together

2. Turtles are...

a. green products

b. different shades of green

c.     not found in nature

d. not green

3. Which of the following might be an example of a green product?

a. a frog

b. a plastic bottle that can be recycled

c. a big truck

d. a plastic bottle that can not be recycled

4. According to the reading, which is green?

a. A frog

b. A mushroom

c.  A bat

d.  A primary color

5. Green is...

a. a kind of plant

b. a secondary color

c. a primary color

d. a type of kite