Portuguese Activity: Preposition

Portuguese activity, suitable for 8th grade students, proposes the study of preposition, taking the initial fragment of the text as a reference desertification processes.

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read the initial fragment of the text “Desertification processes”:

Soil and vegetation play a fundamental role in controlling rainfall and balancing the hydrological cycle. Part of the water that infiltrates the soil is slowly transferred to the rivers, keeping them always full on their way to the sea. The other part is absorbed by plants, which transfer it directly to the atmosphere. Studies carried out in the Amazon by the “Amazon Research Institute (Inpa) reveal that more than half of the water returned to the atmosphere is transferred by the transpiration of the leaves.

It is easy to imagine the importance of this process, considering that the sum of the surfaces of the numerous leaves of a tree is immensely greater than the surface of the soil occupied by that same tree. Therefore, every time trees are cut down in a forest, the clearing formed, even when occupied by a dam, will transfer much less water vapor into the atmosphere.

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Samuel Murgel White. The enviroment in debate. São Paulo: Modern, 1997.

Questions

Question 1 - The text has purposes:

a) didactic

b) advertisers

c) journalistic

d) scientific

Question 2 - Identify what the pronominal forms highlighted below refer to:

a) “[…] keepingyou always full on its course to the sea."

b) “[…] that The transfer directly to the atmosphere.”

Question 3 - In "Therefore, every time trees are cut down in a forest […]”, the underlined term indicates the idea of:

Question 4 - In the section “[…] more than half of the water returned to the atmosphere is transferred for the transpiration of the leaves.”, the underlined preposition establishes the relationship of:

rent

b) instrument

c) mode

d) matter

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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