Portuguese activity, aimed at ninth grade students, aims to study the coordinating conjunctions. They play a very important role in the construction of a text, linking independent sentences together. How about identifying them and analyzing the meaning effects generated by them in the construction of the touching text The secret of the turtle's shell, by João A. Hangman? So, get to work!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
As soon as he learned to read, the boy began to make discoveries. One day he was flipping through a book and came across the word “reptile”. He looked it up in the dictionary and was surprised by the meaning: crawling animal. Snakes, for example. He thought reptile was about speed and just the opposite. The father laughed at his astonishment and said that turtles were reptiles too. In fact, a Chinese legend claimed that God had written the secret of life on the shell of a turtle.
The boy liked this writing by God, who used the turtle's shell as if it were a sheet of paper. His father remembered that learning to read from books was just the beginning. In time, the child could read a person's entire story on a person's face. And it would be enough to look into a friend's eyes to see if happiness shone there. Or touch a countryman's hands to know his sufferings. But the boy, curious, really wanted to know the secret of life. So he became interested in the life of turtles. He met the leatherback turtle, whose shell resembled a capotão ball. The olive turtle, which resembled the green of olives, and the tracajá, typical of the Amazon. He discovered that the hawksbill turtle had this name ___________ from its shell if they made combs, bags and eyeglasses. […]
The more he studied, the more the boy became convinced that he could actually discover the writing of God in those creatures who carried the house on their backs. They had mysterious shells, with very strange designs, colored circles, longitudinal edges. Some even looked like paint.
The boy grew up and became a specialist in turtles. He knew how to distinguish a teenager from an adult and knew the spawning of marine species on the coast like no one else. But he also found that, just as he was looking for the secret of life in the shell of turtles, other people were looking for the same thing in places. different: in the pulsating of the stars, in the song of the birds, in the silence of the eyes, in the smell of the winds, in the lines of the hands, at the end of the Rainbow. Everything around could be read, he smiled, remembering his father's words. And only time, like a teacher who takes a student's hand, taught this lesson, while people were making their discoveries very slowly like turtles. Perhaps the secret was there.
(John A. Hangman. The secret of the turtle's shell. In: “New School Magazine”, year 13, n 111. april/1998.)
Question 1 - In the passage “Looked up in the dictionary and was surprised by the meaning: animal that crawls.”, the conjunction “and” unites:
a) ways of being of the boy.
b) characteristics of the boy.
c) actions of the boy.
d) states of the boy.
question 2– Identify the sentence in which the highlighted conjunction is coordinative, that is, it links independent clauses to each other:
The) "Once learned to read, the boy began to make discoveries.”
B) "Or to touch the hands of a countryman to know his sufferings.”
ç) "How much more studied, the more the boy was convinced that really […]"
d) “It's just time, like a teacher who takes the student's hand, taught this lesson […]"
Question 3 - In the segment "But the boy, curious, really wanted to know the secret of life.”, the underlined conjunction could be replaced by:
a) Therefore
b) Because
c) However
d) For
Question 4 – In the excerpt “That's why he became interested in the life of turtles.”, the conjunction
"For this reason" establishes a relationship of:
the condition
b) comparison
c) cause
d) conclusion
Question 5 - The space indicated must be filled with an explanatory conjunction. Tick it:
why
b) why
c) why
d) why
Question 6 – Underline the conjunction that expresses the idea of addition in this excerpt:
“But he also found that, just as he was looking for the secret of life in the shell of turtles, other people were looking for the same thing in different places […]”
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
At answers are in the link above the header.
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