{"id":738,"date":"2010-01-14T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T13:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=709"},"modified":"2010-01-14T09:30:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T13:30:15","slug":"reading-comprehension-endangered-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/reading-comprehension-endangered-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Comprehension: Endangered Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re going to work on a reading comprehension exercise about an endangered species in the Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>The article is entitled, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globoamazonia.com\/Amazonia\/0,,MUL1442129-16052,00-PESCA+EXCESSIVA+AMEACA+MAIOR+PEIXE+DA+AMAZONIA+DIZ+PESQUISA.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pesca excessiva amea\u00e7a maior peixe da Amaz\u00f4nia, diz pesquisa<\/a>,&#8221; on Globo&#8217;s Amazon section. Here&#8217;s the first part:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;A captura descontrolada pode fazer com que o maior peixe da         Amaz\u00f4nia \u2013 e um dos maiores peixes de \u00e1gua doce do mundo \u2013         desapare\u00e7a do mapa. Em pesquisa divulgada no \u201cJournal of Applied         Ichthyology\u201d, cientistas afirmam que a maior parte da carne de         pirarucu comercializada na Amaz\u00f4nia tem origem ilegal, e \u00e9         dif\u00edcil controlar a pesca predat\u00f3ria da esp\u00e9cie.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1) What is the name of the endangered fish?<\/p>\n<p>2) What are the two main reasons this fish is highly sought by fishermen?<\/p>\n<p>3) What legal efforts have been made to control fishing for this species?<\/p>\n<p>4) What&#8217;s the good news mentioned in the end?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re going to work on a reading comprehension exercise about an endangered species in the Amazon. The article is entitled, &#8220;Pesca excessiva amea\u00e7a maior peixe da Amaz\u00f4nia, diz pesquisa,&#8221; on Globo&#8217;s Amazon section. Here&#8217;s the first part: &#8220;A captura descontrolada pode fazer com que o maior peixe da Amaz\u00f4nia \u2013 e um dos maiores&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/reading-comprehension-endangered-species\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1851],"tags":[1891,2135,2410,2447,2448,2540],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-learning","tag-amazon","tag-fish","tag-portuguese","tag-reading","tag-reading-comprehension","tag-species"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}