Portuguese activity, aimed at ninth grade students, addresses the conjunctions. Are we going to analyze the relationships of meaning established by them? To do so, answer the questions that refer to the fragment of the reflective book in favor of man, written by Paulo Evaristo Arns!
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Man has become a wolf for man, because the goal of industrial development is focused on an object and not on the human being. Technology and science itself did not respect ethical values and therefore had no respect for humanism. For coexistence. For the very meaning of existence. In politics itself, what counted in the post-war period was economic success and, very little, social justice and the cultivation of the true image of man. We were victims of greed and the machine. From the figures. And so we lose the authentic sense of trust, faith, love. The machines walked over the ever tender plant of hope. And it was chaos.
Paulo Evaristo Arns. "In favor of man". Rio de Janeiro: Avenir, s/d. p.10.
Question 1 - Pay attention to the sentences. Afterwards, identify the one in which the highlighted term is a conjunction:
( ) “Technology and science itself did not respect ethical values and, that is why, not […]"
( ) "In the policy itself, the what what counted in the post-war period was the economic success […]"
( ) "AND, thus, we have lost the authentic sense of trust, faith, love.”
Question 2 - In the sentence identified above, the underlined conjunction introduces:
( ) a condition
( ) a conclusion
( ) a consequence
Question 3 - Highlight the conjunction present in this passage of the text:
“Man became a wolf for man, because the goal of industrial development […]”
Question 4 – In the segment “[…] it is concentrated on an object and not on the human being.”, the conjunction “and” presents itself with meaning:
( ) additive
( ) concessive
( ) adversative
Question 5 - In the excerpt “We were victims of greed and the machine.”, the conjunction “and” plays the role of connecting:
( ) elements that add up.
( ) alternating elements.
( ) contrasting elements.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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