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Portuguese Activity: Potbellied Monkey

Portuguese activity aimed at 8th grade students. The use of comma, accentuation of words, among other contents are explored through the news genre “Lobby Monkey”.

You can download this Portuguese language activity in an editable Word template, ready to print in PDF, as well as the completed activity.

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read this news and then answer the proposed questions:

potbellied monkey

Belo Horizonte Zoo Has New Residents

Primate species lives preferentially in terra firme forests.

Since the end of January, the Zoo of the Zoo-Botany Foundation of Belo Horizonte (Otacílio Negrão Avenue de Lima, 8000, Pampulha) now has another species of Brazilian primate from the Amazon region in its collection. Now, in addition to parauacu, cuxiú, night monkey and emperor marmoset, the Zoo has a group made up of eight individuals of potbellied monkeys. (Lagothrix cana), one of the largest primates in the Amazon and preferentially living in upland forests, in groups that have, on average, 19 individuals.

According to the responsible for the Zoo's Mammals Section, biologist Valéria Pereira, Brazil is the country with the largest number of primate species. “This is an opportunity to expand the diversity of the primate group in our squad and this will be a great attraction for people,” she commented.

In addition, as it is an endangered species, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the FZB-BH has great interest in collaborating with the conservation of this species through scientific research, environmental education activities and management in captivity. […]

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Activities

Question 1 - Identify the purpose of the news:

Question 2 - These are terms used for the resumption of the potbellied monkey, except:

a) primate species

b) of this kind

c) group of primates

d) an endangered species

Question 3 – List:

Excerpts from the news:

  1. “Since the end of January, the Zoo of the Zoo-Botany Foundation of Belo Horizonte…”
  2. “(Otacílio Negrão de Lima Avenue, 8,000, Pampulha)”.
  3. “[…] in addition to parauacu, cuxiú, night monkey and emperor marmoset, …”.
  4. “According to the head of the Zoo's Mammals Section, biologist Valéria Pereira, Brazil …”.

Justifications for using the comma:

____ List the species.

____ Inverting the order of terms in the sentence.

____ Inserting an explanation.

____ Separate terms relating to the address.

Question 4 - Identify the grammatical reason that explains the graphic accent of these pairs of words:

a) species, average.

b) mammals, zoo.

c) will be, cuxiú.

______ oxytone words ending in vowels.

______ paroxytones ending in diphthong.

______ proparoxytone words.

Question 5 - Write the nouns equivalent to the following adjectives:

a) firm: _________________

b) responsible: ______________________

c) attractive: __________________________

d) environmental: ________________________

e) scientific: _______________________

Question 6 – Justify the use of the quotation mark in the news:

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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