Portuguese activity, suitable for ninth grade students, explores the pronouns. Let's identify them and understand the role they play in the text people, work and meaning! In it, the author Juan Mosquera leads us to reflect on the mandatory nature of the work. According to him, most people carry out tasks with which they have no personal ties… This is a very important issue to be debated, don't you think? Then, he reads the text and then answers the various questions regarding the proposed content!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Most of our lives are spent in the workplace. We spend hours developing tasks that, apparently, do not have a close relationship with us.
Most human beings are constrained to work for the simple fact that work is especially survival. This idea, which is a reality, is indicating that work seems like an embarrassing element, if looked at in the immediate reference of fulfilling basic needs.
In the technological culture, work has acquired an extraordinary importance and it seems that it is very difficult for human beings to be able to live without working. The obligatory character of work gives it a punitive meaning, and many individuals see it that way. The situation of the adult worker is quite complex in our society, as jobs are indicated and ranked according to levels of preparation and specialization.
It is no use, therefore, thinking about the value of work as "free choice" since, increasingly, it imposes the mandatory training, which is often time-consuming, to assume an appropriate task in the culture contemporary.
Juan Mosquera, “The illusions and problems of life”.
Question 1 - In the passage “[…] that, apparently, do not have a close relationship with our person.”, the relative pronoun “that” resumes:
a) "our lives"
b) "workplaces"
c) "hours"
d) "tasks"
Question 2 - In the excerpt "That idea that it is a reality is indicating that the work.”, the demonstrative pronoun underlined:
a) takes up an idea.
b) announces an idea.
c) explains an idea.
d) complements an idea.
Question 3 - Underline the oblique personal pronouns present in this part of the text.
"The mandatory nature of work gives it a punitive meaning, and many individuals see it that way."
Now, identify the referent of the underlined pronouns above:
Question 4 – In the segment "The situation of the adult worker is quite complex in our society [...]", the pronoun "our" expresses the notion of:
in time
b) place
c) possession
d) intensity
Question 5 - The "what" is a relative pronoun in the sentence:
a) “This idea that is a reality […]”
b) “[…] is indicating that the work seems like an embarrassing element […]”
c) “[…] and it seems that it is very difficult for human beings to be able to live without working.”
d) “[…] since the works are indicated and ranked according to the levels […]”
Question 6 – Point out the segment where the highlighted term is an undefined pronoun:
a) “[…] and it seems that it is much difficult for human beings to be able to live without working.”
b) “[…] and Many individuals see it that way […]"
c) "The situation of the adult worker is quite complex in our society […]"
d) “[…] since, each time more, imposes the obligation to have training [...]"
Question 7 – “It's no use, therefore, thinking about the value of work […]”. Mark the person of the personal pronoun, which is the subject of the verb "to think":
a) 1st person singular
b) 1st person plural
c) 2nd person plural
d) 3rd person plural
Question 8 – In the prayer “How many hours do you work per day?”, the term “How many” is:
( ) an indefinite pronoun
( ) an interrogative pronoun
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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