Portuguese activity, aimed at 9th grade students, consists of questions about the verbal phrases, used in the construction of the text e-book smell.
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How do you borrow a virtual book? If an owner of a digital reader dies, who inherits your library? What happens to regional publishers if a large foreign publisher translates works into other languages and sells them over the internet? How is copyright on the network? If an e-book is stolen or broken, will the collection be lost? Will physical bookstores close as CD stores have been doing? Will there be multiple digital book standards or will only one format prevail? Will the paper book run out?
There are many questions and few answers brought about by advances in e-books. But there is a certainty that the way in which books are produced, marketed and read is changing.
"The globe". Second Notebook, page 1. 29 Oct. 2009.
Question 1 - Identify, in the first paragraph of the text, the sentence that presents a verbal phrase formed by the most gerund verb. Then brand it:
Question 2 - In the passage “But there is certainty that the way in which books are produced, marketed and read it's changing.”, the highlighted verb phrase indicates:
a) the continuity of a state.
b) an apparent state.
c) a mutatory state.
d) a permanent state.
Question 3 - In “The book on paper will end?”, the underlined phrase has the meaning of the verb:
a) would end
b) will end
c) it's over
d) finished
Question 4 – The use of a verbal phrase is registered in the excerpt:
a) "How do you borrow a virtual book?"
b) "If the owner of a digital reader dies, who will inherit your library?"
c) "The physical bookstores will close like […]"
d) "There are many questions and few answers brought by advances in e-books."
Question 5 - “Will there be multiple digital book standards or just one format will prevail?”. Rewrite this sentence, replacing the highlighted phrase by the verb with equivalent meaning:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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