Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, explores the adverbs. They can indicate time, place, intensity, mode… How about analyzing them in the curious text How is hair formed? So, answer the various questions proposed below!
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All mammals have fur, cats, dogs, cows, and we humans. The hairs we have on our heads are called hairs.
Hair begins to form under the skin, in a place called the hair follicle. Within our skin there are thousands of hair follicles. That's why we have thousands of hairs and hairs all over our bodies! At the bottom of this follicle, there is a small group of cells, called the root, where the hair is constantly formed and pushed upwards, so that it grows.
Have you ever heard that our hair is made of keratin? At the root, these cells produce keratin filaments, which clump together, bundle up and form hair.
The hair is formed by 3 parts, like a pencil. The innermost part is the medulla, which would correspond to the pencil lead. Then comes the cortex, which corresponds to 95% of the hair, would be wood. And finally the hair cuticle that would be the coating that surrounds our pencil. As the strands of hair are thin, we cannot see these 3 layers without the help of a microscope.
The hair can be curled, wavy or straight and these characteristics are determined genetically, that's why our hair can be very similar to our parents' and even to the our grandparents. And believe me: we have around 100 to 150,000 hairs on the head and the hairs can grow more than 1cm per month!
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Question 1 - The highlighted word works as an adverb in the excerpt:
( ) “The hairs what we have on the head are called hair.”
( ) "You already heard that our hair is made of keratin?"
( ) “The hair is made up of 3 parts, like if it was a pencil."
Question 2 - In "Like is the hair formed?”, the underlined interrogative adverb indicates:
( ) place
( ) mode
( ) cause
question 3 – The underlined term is an adverb of place in the passage:
( ) "[…] on one local called hair follicle.”
( ) "At the background of this follicle, there is a small group of cells […]"
( ) “[…] and pushed to up, so it grows.”
Question 4 – The adverb of time “constantly” could be replaced by:
( ) "continuously"
( ) "sporadically"
( ) "at the same time"
Question 5 - In the period “After comes the cortex, which corresponds to 95% of the hair, it would be wood.”, the adverb “After” adds a circumstance of time to the verb:
( ) "comes"
( ) "corresponds"
( ) "would be"
Question 6 – In “The innermost part is the medulla […]”, the adverb “more” intensifies the meaning of:
( ) a verb
( ) an adjective
( ) an adverb
Question 7 – In the part “[…] we cannot see these 3 layers without the help of a microscope.”, the adverb “no” modifies the meaning of a verb, whose subject is:
( ) hidden
( ) nonexistent
( ) undetermined
Question 8 – In the segment “[…] these characteristics are genetically determined […]”, the adverb “genetically” indicates:
( ) the means by which these characteristics are determined.
( ) how these characteristics are determined.
( ) the time with which these characteristics are determined.
Question 9 – In the sentence “[…] our hair can be very similar […]”, the adverb “well”:
( ) defines the meaning of “alike”.
( ) intensifies the sense of “alike”.
( ) complements the meaning of “alike”.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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