Portuguese Activity: Demonstrative Pronouns in the Text about Dragonflies

Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, aims to study the demonstrative pronouns. Do you know the difference between “this” and “this”? Are you in doubt? So, answer the proposed questions about the text Dragonflies only live one day? and learn to use them correctly! It is worth adding that the activity explores other demonstrative pronouns as well, ok?

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

Dragonflies only live one day?

Do not. Some species of dragonflies can live up to 5 years! In Brazil there are 1,200 different species and around 5,000 species worldwide. They always live near rivers and lakes with clean water, which serve as their home. They are very sensitive to environmental pollution and this is the main reason for the disappearance of dragonflies. Washerwoman, helicopter, maiden and zigzag are other names by which this insect is called.

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Questions

Question 1 - Identify the sentence in which the highlighted pronoun is demonstrative:

( ) “Some species of dragonflies can live up to 5 years!”

( ) “They they always live near rivers and lakes with clean water […]”

( ) “They are very sensitive to environmental pollution and that is the great cause […]"

Question 2 - The demonstrative pronoun, identified in the previous question, refers to the fact that:

( ) dragonflies can live up to 5 years.

( ) dragonflies always live near rivers and lakes with clean water.

( ) dragonflies are very sensitive to environmental pollution.

Question 3 - In the passage “[…] are other names by which this insect is called.”, the demonstrative pronoun “this”:

( ) resumes a term.

( ) announces a term.

( ) explains a term.

Question 4 – Check the demonstrative pronoun that correctly completes the sentence:

________ are the other names by which dragonflies are called: laundress, helicopter, maidenand zigzag.

( ) "Those ones"

( ) "These"

( ) "Those"

Question 5 - In “In Brazil there are 1,200 types of dragonflies! Didn't you know?”, the term “the” is:

( ) definite article

( ) demonstrative pronoun

( ) oblique personal pronoun

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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