Portuguese activity, aimed at 8th grade students, proposes the study of the verb, in the future of the present, through a text that tells us facts about cockroaches.
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Cockroaches have been on Earth for over 200 million years, survive both in the desert and in the poles and can go up to 30 days without eating. Will you face it?
Vacations, sun and beach are some of the good reasons to celebrate the arrival of summer and think that this is the best season of the year. And it really would be, if not for a single detail: cockroaches. Like us, they are also very excited by the heat. They take advantage of the acceleration of their biochemical processes to reproduce faster and, of course, to roam freely in every room in our homes.
At this time of year, the chances of coming face to face with the unwanted visitor, when waking up at night to drink water or go to the bathroom, are three times greater.
Magazine Galileo. Rio de Janeiro: Globo, No. 151, Feb. 2004, p.26.
Question 1 - “Ugly, dirty and unbeatable”. What does the text refer to?
Question 2 - According to the text, summer is the ideal season for cockroaches. Because?
Question 3 - In […] and they can stay until 30 days without eating.”, the highlighted term indicates one:
the inclusion
b) addition
c) emphasis
d) comparison
Question 4 – An example of informal language can be found in the excerpt:
a) "The cockroaches have been on Earth for over 200 million years [...]"
b) “Holidays, sun and beach are some of the good reasons to celebrate the arrival of summer […]”
c) “[…] to walk freely through all the rooms of our houses.”
d) "At this time of year, the chances of bumping into the unwanted visitor […]"
Question 5 - There is the use of the future of the present in the passage:
a) "Will you face it?"
b) "And it really would be, if it weren't for a single detail: cockroaches."
c) "Like us, they are also very excited by the heat."
d) "They take advantage of the acceleration of their biochemical processes to reproduce […]"
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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