Portuguese Activity: Conjunction mas

Portuguese activity, aimed at 8th grade students, proposes the study of conjunction "but", through a news about light pollution. Do you know what this is? Find it out?

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Blackout on a planetary scale will celebrate the shine of the stars

Few people have heard of light pollution, but such a thing exists and is a nightmare in an astronomer's life, as it steals the beauty of the starry sky. It wasn't the stars that lost their freshness, it was humanity that intensely illuminated the Earth and dazzled the night. Light pollution is caused by excessive urban lighting. (…) To draw attention to the problem, astronomers from different countries started to organize something like the World Day of the Dark Sky. The idea is that the city lights were turned off for a few moments. This was on April 18, 2005, when the 50th anniversary of Albert Einstein's death would be remembered.

“O Globo” Magazine, Rio de Janeiro, 3 Oct. 2004 p. 34.

Questions

Question 1 - The purpose of the text is:

Question 2 - According to the text, what causes light pollution?

Question 3 - In the excerpt “Few people have heard of light pollution, but there is such a thing […]”, the conjunction “but”, which links the two sentences, could be replaced as follows:

a) “Few people have heard of light pollution, as such a thing exists […]”

b) “Few people have heard of light pollution, so there is such a thing […]”

c) “Few people have heard of light pollution, because such a thing exists […]”

d) “Few people have heard of light pollution, however such a thing exists […]”

Question 4 – The conjunction "but" establishes in the above context the relationship of:

a) grant

b) condition

c) opposition

d) conclusion

Question 5 - In “It wasn't the stars that lost their freshness, it's humanity that illuminated intensely the Earth […]”, the underlined term indicates the idea:

a) mode

b) place

c) denial

d) time

By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

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