Portuguese activity, aimed at first-year high school students, addresses the conjunctions. Are we going to learn more about these connectives? To do this, answer the various questions that refer to the text. Democracy x Aristocracy! Do you know the difference?
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Nowadays, it seems a little strange to talk about the power of (or in) the people because there are so many democratic governments. But at the time the term democracy was created, it was very common for political regimes to exist that were not democratic, such as the aristocracy.
In the aristocracy, government is in the hands of those who consider themselves better. Power comes into these people's hands because of economic, social or heredity privileges and they remain in charge by imposition or the use of force. If the people don't agree with what they decide, they can't do anything to change it.
Let's take an example: If in your classroom the decision about the closing party for the semester is discussed with the participation of all colleagues or among chosen representatives of the class, we are talking about a democracy. But if one of the students is the son of an important businessman or the mayor of the city, and that's why he think of the right to rule and choose for everyone, without the support of the class, here we are talking about a aristocracy.
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Question 1 - In the initial period of the text, there is a conjunction. Point it out:
( ) "quite"
( ) "in"
( ) "why"
Question 2 - In the excerpt "But at the time the term democracy was created […]”, the highlighted conjunction could be replaced by:
( ) "Yet"
( ) "Although"
( ) "For how much"
Question 3 - The "if" is a conjunction in the segment:
( ) "In the aristocracy, the government is in the hands of those who consider themselves the best."
( ) “If in your classroom the decision about the closing party for the semester is […]”
( ) “[…] that's why he thinks he has the right to rule and choose for everyone […]”
Question 4 - In the segment identified above, the conjunction "if" expresses:
( ) a wish
( ) a hypothesis
( ) a condition
Question 5 - In the part “[…] it was very common to have undemocratic political regimes, such as the aristocracy.”, the word “how” is:
( ) an adverb
( ) a conjunction
( ) a preposition
Question 6 – Highlight the conjunction present in this fragment:
“[…] and they remain in charge by imposition […]”,
The conjunction underlined above is:
( ) additive
( ) adversative
( ) conformative
Question 7 – In the period “If the people don't agree with what they decide, they can't do anything to change.”, the conjunction “If” links dependent clauses together. In this case, the conjunction is:
( ) absolute
( ) coordinating
( ) subordinate
Question 8 – In “But if one of the students is the son of an important businessman or the mayor of the city […]”, the conjunction “or” indicates:
( ) opposing facts.
( ) facts that add up.
( ) alternating facts.
Question 9 – In the passage “[…] that is why he thinks he has the right to command and choose for everyone […]”, the underlined conjunction introduces:
( ) a conclusion
( ) a purpose
( ) an example
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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