Portuguese activity, aimed at 1st year high school students, is made up of questions about different jobs in the comma, content that commonly generates doubts, in the construction of the joke entitled thanking God.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
A tourist travels on safari in Africa. During the savannah tour, he gets lost and ends up face to face with a fierce lion. Seeing him advancing toward him, he asked God for a Christian spirit to take possession of that lion. At this, thunder is heard, followed by a great flash in the sky. The lion kneels before the frightened tourist and begins to pray, saying:
– Thank you Lord, for another meal!
“Jokes and bumpers”, n.1 – RDE – Revista das Estradas.
Question 1 - The text ends:
a) humorous
b) journalistic
c) advertising
d) didactic
Question 2 - “During the excursion in the savannah, he gets lost and ends up face to face with a fierce lion.”. Justify the use of the comma in this part of the text:
Question 3 – In the excerpt “Seeing him advancing towards you, ask God for a Christian spirit to take possession of that lion.”, the comma indicates:
a) an adverbial adjunct displacement of place.
b) an enumeration and coordinated terms.
c) an inversion in the order of the sentence's constituents.
d) an insertion of terms.
Question 4 - In the passage “The lion kneels down in front of the frightened tourist and begins to pray, saying […]”, the comma precedes a verb in the form of:
a) personal infinitive
b) gerund
c) participle
d) impersonal infinitive
Question 5 - In the lion's speech "– Thank you Lord, for another meal!”, the comma separates:
a) an adjunct
b) a bet
c) an adjunct
d) a vocative
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
At answers are in the link above the header.
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