Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, about the gerund. Does it end in “r”, in “ado/ido” or in “ndo”? Are you in doubt now? So, be sure to answer the questions proposed below!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
In 1967, at the III Festival of Popular Music, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil broke into the debate cultural of the time, causing controversy with his songs "Alegria, alegre" and "Sunday no parque", respectively. Accompanied by the guitars of the Beat Boys and Mutantes, they incorporated modern and up-to-date data into the “general Brazilian jelly”, highlighting the mixture of archaism and modernization, fusing the elements traditions of Brazilian popular music with the modernity of urban life and its consumer culture, based on a fragmentary and decentered discourse, as in a film by Glauber Rock.
BRANDÃO, A. C & DUARTE, M.F. “Youth cultural movements”. São Paulo: Modern, 2004.
Question 1 - In the first sentence of the text, the verb in the gerund “causando” has as subject:
( ) Caetano Veloso.
( ) Gilberto Gil.
( ) Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil.
Question 2 - In the passage “[…] highlighting the mixture of archaism and modernization […]”, the verb in the underlined gerund could be replaced by:
( ) highlighting
( ) composing
( ) intoning
Question 3 - In the excerpt “[…] fusing the traditional elements of Brazilian popular music […]”, the gerund “melting” indicates:
( ) a state.
( ) an action.
( ) a way of being.
Question 4 – Rewrite the sentence “[…] from a fragmentary and off-center discourse […]”, replacing the infinitive verb by the equivalent in the gerund:
A:
Question 5 - Identify the punctuation mark that accompanies the verbs in the gerund:
( ) comma
( ) quotation marks
( ) end
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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