Portuguese activity, suitable for first-year high school students, explores the conjunctions and conjunctive phrases. They play an essential role in linking the ideas that make up a text! Therefore, it is very important to understand the relationships of meaning that these expressions establish in the communicative context! So, here's the invitation for you to analyze them in the thought-provoking text Why Philosophy?
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You may not even know that you have a philosopher inside you, you may not even think you want to have one, but I can guarantee that he (or she) not only exists, but also, after you let that pop in a bit, you'll be glad you did, because philosophy can take you to some amazing places without you having to leave your seat or seat on the subway at 7:15 am in the morning; and it can show you some extraordinary things, even if you don't look too hard. In fact, it can show that the places you go and the things you see every day are quite incredible, that is, philosophy can sharpen your appreciation of the world – and your mind – by Same time.
Conflicts of opinion are a concern when you need to decide something important, since, at that moment, every conflict must be resolved. But until that point you will find that there are great arguments for an answer, but there are also other great arguments for an opposite answer. A particular idea may seem very good until you suddenly find an objection to it; but then you could almost immediately think of a way to answer that objection. Philosophical reflection is like this: nothing static and fixed, but continuous and dynamic. The conflict of opinions is not just something to be concerned about, it's actually precisely how things should be, because it's just once you have considered a particular issue, from all sides, you can make an accurate decision about what think.
Unfortunately, the philosopher within me cannot make this decision for you, __________ his role, as tell me, it's just waking up the philosopher within you and making him start thinking – not saying what he should think. That is your philosopher's task.
PESSIN, Andrew, "Philosophy in 60 Seconds: Expand Your Mind with One Minute a Day!" Translation Marcelo Barbão. São Paulo: Leya, 2012.
Question 1 - Identify the sentence in which the underlined expression is a temporal conjunctive phrase:
The) "[…] after you let it show up a little […]"
b) “[…] can sharpen your appreciation of the world – and your mind – at the same time.”
c) “[…] it may look very good until, suddenly, you find an objection to it […]"
d) “[…] because only after have considered a particular issue […]"
Question 2 - In the excerpt “[…] get out of your chair or seat in the subway […]”, the conjunction “or” is:
a) additive
b) alternative
c) conclusive
d) explanatory
Question 3 - In “[…] and it can show some extraordinary things, even if you don't look too hard.”, the conjunctive phrase “even if” could be replaced by:
a) so that
b) since
c) for what
d) even though
Question 4 – In the passage “[…] there are great arguments for an answer, but also there are other great arguments for an opposite answer.”, the underlined conjunctive phrase links:
a) two opposing facts.
b) two facts that complement each other.
c) two facts that are justified.
d) two alternating facts.
Question 5 - In the sentence "Conflicts of opinion are something of concern when you need to decide something important, once, at that moment […]”, the highlighted conjunctive phrase introduces:
a) a condition
b) a conformity
c) a cause
d) a consequence
Question 6 – Check the segment in which the indicated space was correctly filled:
a) “[…] the philosopher inside me cannot make this decision for you, although his role […]”
b) “[…] the philosopher inside me cannot make this decision for you, like his role […]”
c) “[…] the philosopher inside me cannot make this decision for you, but his role […]”
d) “[…] the philosopher inside me cannot make this decision for you, because his role […]”
Question 7 – Point out the sentence in which the underlined conjunction is subordinate:
( ) “[…] it can show you the places where you go and the things you see every day […]"
( ) “The philosophical reflection is like this: nothing static and fixed, but continuous and dynamic.”
( ) “[…] his role, according tell me, it's just waking up the philosopher within you […]"
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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