Portuguese activity, suitable for 9th grade students, proposes the study of prepositional phrase, used in the initial excerpt of the text "Book memory", written by João Ubaldo Ribeiro.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read the opening excerpt of the text “Memória de Livros”, written by João Ubaldo Ribeiro:
Aracaju, the city where we lived in the late 1940s, early 1950s, was the proud capital of Sergipe, the smallest Brazilian state (about the size of Switzerland). This distinction, however, did not detract from its character as a small, provincial and calm town, at the mouth of a river and a short distance from very beautiful beaches. We knew about the world through the radio, through newsreels that accompanied all the films and through national magazines. Television was seen by many as a traveller's lie, only a few crazy people traveled by plane, we bought live chickens and vegetables brought to our door on the backs of mules, we had big yards and gardens, boys didn't argue with adults, women didn't use long pants didn't even drive cars and we lived so far away from everything it was said that when the world ended, we'd only know about five days later.
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A Brazilian in Berlin. Rio de Janeiro: New Frontier, 1995.
Question 1 - The city of Aracaju is described in the following passage:
a) “[…] it was the proud capital of Sergipe […]”
b) “[…] small, provincial and calm […]”
c) “Television was seen by many as a lie of travelers […]”
d) “[…] women did not wear long pants or drive cars […]”
Question 2 - "we knew around the world on the radio, in newsreels that accompanied all the films and in national magazines.”. Given the context, identify the subject of the underlined verb:
A:
Question 3 – In "[…] at the mouth of a river and a short distance from very beautiful beaches.”, the prepositional phrase highlighted establishes a relationship of:
rent
b) time
c) mode
d) cause
Question 4 - In the segment "This distinction, Yet, did not take away the character of a small town […]”, the highlighted term indicates one:
a) comparison
b) conclusion
c) consequence
d) opposition
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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