Portuguese activity, aimed at 9th grade students, allows the study of adversative conjunction, in the construction of the text Sweets - no guilt.
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Eating a sweet after lunch or dinner is always delicious. The problem is that traditional desserts are generally not very healthy, as they tend to contain refined sugar and saturated fats. And these ingredients, when consumed in excess, can promote the emergence of worrying problems such as diabetes and heart disease.
Those who insist on treats, however, don't need to be in the mood. More and more, confectioners are looking for healthy alternatives – taking advantage of the natural sugar in fruits, betting on less harmful fats and using less processed ingredients. With creativity, it is possible to combine taste and well-being. […]
Everyone Magazine – Life is made of stories. What is yours? – October/November, p.42.
Question 1 - There is an opinion in the excerpt:
a) “The problem is that traditional desserts are generally not very healthy […]”
b) "And these ingredients, when consumed in excess, can favor the appearance [...]"
c) “Increasingly, confectioners have been looking for healthy alternatives […]”
d) "With creativity, it is possible to combine flavor and well-being."
Question 2 - Register the use of adversative conjunction in the passage:
a) "Eating a sweet after lunch or dinner is always delicious."
b) “[…] as they usually take refined sugar and saturated fats.”
c) "Those who insist on treats, however, don't need to be in the mood."
d) “[…] in less harmful fats and using less processed ingredients.”
Question 3 - In “[…] the emergence of worrying problems like diabetes and heart disease.”, the underlined term introduces a:
the explanation
b) observation
c) comparison
d) exemplification
Question 4 - “Increasingly, confectioners has looking for healthy alternatives […]”. Explain the use of the caret in the highlighted verb:
Question 5 - In the part “With creativity, it is possible to combine flavor and well-being.”, the comma indicates an inversion in the order of the elements that make up the sentence. What is the purpose of using this inversion?
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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