Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth grade of elementary school, about punctuation marks. Let's analyze them in the text Who came up with the idea of the "countdown"? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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The “inventor” of the countdown was the German filmmaker Fritz Lang. In 1930, while filming “The Woman on the Moon”, Lang was faced with a problem: the script described a count from 1 to 10 before firing a rocket. The problem is that the director was afraid that the scene would not work, since the audience would not know exactly when the countdown would end. The solution Count backwards from 10 to zero. The idea became popular and the countdown is still used today (and not only in rocket launches!).
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Question 1 – Quotation marks were used in “A Mulher na Lua” to highlight:
Question 2 – In the section “[…] Lang faced a problem: the script described a count from 1 to 10 before firing a rocket.”, the colon announces:
( ) a quote.
( ) an enumeration.
( ) an explanation of what was said earlier.
Question 3 – In the part “The problem is that the director was afraid the scene would not work, since the audience would not know exactly when the countdown would end.”, the comma is:
( ) prohibited.
( ) optional.
( ) mandatory.
Question 4 – The period “The solution” must be ended with the punctuation mark:
( ) .
( ) !
( ) ?
Question 5 – In the passage “The idea became popular and the countdown is still used today (and not only in rocket launches!).”, the parentheses indicate:
( ) an example that has been merged.
( ) an opinion that was interspersed.
( ) an explanation that was interspersed.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.