Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth grade of elementary school, addresses adverbs of time. How about analyzing these adverbs in the text Another home in the past? To do this, answer the proposed questions!
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The study of bat fossils reveals that several species lived, in the past, in different places than they inhabit today. The 30-million-year-old megachiropteran found in Italy, for example, belongs to a group of bats that are currently only seen in tropical areas in Africa, Asia and Australia. Bats that feed on blood, now found only in tropical Central America, a few thousand years ago, for example, lived in northern California, in the United States. That is, in North America.
After all, why would bats live in places where they are currently not found? Probably because the climate there, in the past, was not like today.
Gisele Lessa. Magazine “Science Today for Children”. Edition: 170.
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Question 1 – Underline the adverb that indicates time to follow:
“The study of bat fossils reveals that several species lived, in the past, in different places than they inhabit today.”
Question 2 – The adverb underlined above adds a tense circumstance to the verb:
( ) "reveals".
( ) “lived”.
( ) “inhabit”.
Question 3 – Watch:
“[…] why would bats live in places where they are currently not found?”
In this segment, there is an adverb of time. Identify it:
Question 4 – Cite an adverb of time with the same meaning as the one identified above:
Question 5 – Point to the passage where the highlighted word is an adverb of time:
( ) “Already bats that feed on blood […]”
( ) “[…] found today only from tropical Central America […]”
( ) “Probably, because the climate in the place, in the past, it was not like today.”
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
