Portuguese activity, aimed at 8th grade students, proposes the study of parentheses, through the text that tells us about New Zealand.
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Take in Canadian hospitality, American practicality and bucolic British scenery. Add human rights, quality of life, press freedom and Swiss punctuality. And, to make it even better, this recipe does not include corruption. Done: you have a blend to define New Zealand, a small island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, 2000 km from Australia. Most of the 4 million kiwis (as the local people are affectionately called), of European descent, live in an environment where everything works, from the administrative machine to the tourist infrastructure. And when it comes to nature, the scenery takes your breath away. […]
Antonella Kann. “O Globo”, January 16, 2010.
Question 1 - Identify the purpose of the text:
Question 2 - At the beginning of the text, the intertextuality with the genre is perceived:
a) instruction manual
b) cooking recipe
c) medicine package
d) advertising
Question 3 - An opinion of the author is recorded in the passage:
a) "Take Canadian hospitality, American practicality and bucolic British scenery."
b) “[…] New Zealand, a small island country in the southwest of the Pacific Ocean, 2000 km […]”
c) “[…] lives in an environment where everything works, from the administrative machine to the infrastructure […]”
d) "And when it comes to nature, the scenery takes your breath away."
Question 4 - The word “blend” appears in italics in the text because:
a) is little known.
b) is grammatically unacceptable.
c) is of foreign origin.
d) is the authorship of others.
Question 5 - The information placed between parentheses consists of:
the explanation
b) illustration
c) comparison
d) opinion
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
At answers are in the link above the header.