Portuguese Activity: Bet

Portuguese activity, aimed at eighth grade students, addresses the bet. What role does it play? Explain, characterize or complement? Let's learn? To do this, answer the questions based on the text on quinine, a white powder extracted from the bark of the cinchona tree!

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

secrets of the forest

Legends, mystery and much controversy surround the discovery of the bark of a tree called cinchona, native to the Andes region of South America. Quinine, a white powder extracted from this bark, was the first drug used on a large scale in combat to malaria – a terrible disease that has killed between 150 and 300 million people in the last 100 years alone! Currently, more than a million people die from the disease each year, most of them African children under the age of five.

Malaria transmission occurs through the bite of mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles contaminated with a parasite, Plasmodium. […]

Maria Ramos. Available in:. (Fragment).

Questions

Question 1 - There is a bet on the ticket:

( ) “Currently more than one million people die from the disease each year […]”

( ) “[…] most African children under the age of five.”

( ) “[…] mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles contaminated with a parasite, plasmodium.”

Question 2 - The bet “native to the Andes region of South America” refers to:

( ) to the bark of a tree.

( ) to cinchona.

( ) to malaria.

Question 3 - Underline the bet that makes up this excerpt:

“Quinine, a white powder extracted from this bark, was the first medicine […]”

Question 4 - Point to the core of the bet underlined above:

( ) "quinine"

( ) "dust"

( ) "shell"

Question 5 - It can be concluded that the bet performs the function of:

( ) explain a term.

( ) characterize a term.

( ) complement a term.

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

At answers are in the link above the header.

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