Portuguese activity, aimed at eighth grade students, addresses the punctuation marks. These signs are essential in understanding a text, isn't it? Exclamation point, period, comma, quotation marks, colon, ellipses, parentheses… Let's analyze their use in the text about the Brazil wood? For this study, answer the various questions proposed below!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Hey! I'm better known as Brazilwood, but biologists (specialists who study living beings and the laws of life) know me as Guillandine echinate, a really fancy scientific name, huh?! I am part of the birth of our country's history!
When navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral arrived in Brazil, in the year 1500, my family was immense. We covered much of the territory that is now known as Bahia. There was an abundance of Brazilwood trees that only you could see! But little by little my family was disappearing…
We were used a lot for construction, because the wood of our trunk is very rich and resistant, and explorers discovered this and started cutting us! But the main source of our wealth is a colorant we have.
This dye of ours, known as “brasileína”, was widely used to dye clothes and to refill ink cartridges whose ink was used for writing.
The intense exploitation of Brazil wood has brought much wealth to the country. That's why the name was named: Brazil.
But these days the story is quite different! Unfortunately, my family is threatened with extinction! If they keep taking us out of nature, we run the risk of disappearing! And I don't like this conversation at all.
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Question 1 - In the first paragraph of the text, parentheses separate a sentence that performs the function of:
( ) explain
( ) characterize
( ) complementary
Question 2 - In “When the navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral arrived in Brazil, in the year 1500, my family was immense.”, the commas separate an expression that expresses:
( ) place
( ) time
( ) intensity
Question 3 – In the segment “There was an abundance of Brazilwood trees that only you could see!”, the exclamation point shows the feeling of:
( ) relief
( ) desire
( ) admiration
Question 4 - In the passage “But little by little my family disappeared…”, the reticence indicates:
( ) the continuation of a fact.
( ) an incomplete sentence.
( ) a certain extension of the idea.
Question 5 - In the fragment “We were used a lot for construction, because the wood from our trunk […]”, the comma precedes a conjunction that could be replaced by:
( ) "because"
( ) "but"
( ) "therefore"
Question 6 – In the excerpt “[…] known as “brasileína” […]”, the quotation marks highlight:
( ) the name of the dye, present in pau-brasil.
( ) the incorrect writing of the name of the dye, present in pau-brasil.
( ) the name of the dye, present in pau-brasil, in a foreign language.
Question 7 – In the part “That's why the name was named: Brazil.”, the colon:
( ) introduce an explanation.
( ) introduce a quote.
( ) introduce a speech by the author of the text.
Question 8 – In the sentence "Unfortunately, my family is threatened with extinction!", the comma separates:
( ) a word that expresses a conclusion.
( ) a word that expresses an opinion.
( ) a word that expresses an adversity.
Question 9 – In “And I don't like this talk at all.”, the final period closes a period that has:
( ) a prayer
( ) two prayers
( ) three prayers
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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