Portuguese activity, aimed at first-year high school students, explores the conjunctions. How about analyzing them in the text The science behind ice cream? For this, answer the various questions proposed! In “But it's not enough to mix the ingredients to get a good ice cream.”, the author of the text uses the conjunction “Mas” to express a contrast, a reservation or a compensation? Let's go to the challenge?
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For starters, we know that we have two types of frozen treats: ice cream and popsicles.
Popsicles, in general, are lighter and contain less fat. Ice creams contain more fat, sugar and are creamier.
If we look at ice cream under the microscope, we will basically find: ice crystals, air bubbles, ice and fat.
To make ice cream, therefore, we use egg yolks, cream, sugar, fruit or other ingredients such as chocolate.
In factories, ice cream is made from fat, proteins, water, milk, sugar, stabilizers and emulsifiers.
Although the ingredients vary, in the end, it comes down to: drops of fat, air bubbles and ice crystals, which form a semi-solid, frozen and aerated base.
But it is not enough to mix the ingredients to get a good ice cream. If we put everything in a blender, we mix it and take it to the freezer, we will only get a huge slab of ice, without the uniformity and without that creamy mixture we know. Basically, we'll make a popsicle.
Do you know why this happens? Because what gives the delicious consistency of ice cream is a simple and fundamental ingredient: air! _____________, the ingredients need to be mixed, then whipped and cooled very slowly, and mixed from time to time during this process so that air is incorporated into the mixture.
Also at this stage of preparation, another interesting chemical phenomenon occurs: large concentrations of sugar and salt reduce the melting point of water, that is, the temperature at which the water freezes.
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Question 1 - In the passage "The popsicles, in general, are lighter and contain less fat.", the conjunction "and" indicates:
( ) the sum of the popsicles characteristics.
( ) the alternating characteristics of the popsicles.
( ) the comparison between the characteristics of the popsicles.
Question 2 - In the excerpt “If we look at an ice cream through the microscope, we will basically find: ice crystals, air bubbles, ice and fat.”, the conjunction “If” introduces:
( ) a hypothesis.
( ) a condition.
( ) a concession.
Question 3 - Underline, in the period below, the conjunction that expresses a conclusion:
"To make ice cream, therefore, we use egg yolks, cream, sugar, fruits or other ingredients such as chocolate."
Question 4 – In the segment "Although the ingredients vary, in the end, it boils down to […]”, the highlighted conjunction begins a prayer called:
( ) absolute.
( ) coordinate.
( ) subordinate.
Question 5 - In the part “But it's not enough to mix the ingredients to get a good ice cream.”, the author of the text uses the conjunction “But” to express:
( ) a contrast.
( ) one caveat.
( ) a compensation.
Question 6 – Read back:
“Because what gives the delicious consistency of ice cream is a simple and fundamental ingredient: air! _____________, the ingredients need to be mixed […]"
The space must be filled with the conjunction:
( ) "Although".
( ) "That is why".
( ) "For how much".
Question 7 – In "[…] for what the air is incorporated into the mixture.”, the underlined conjunction precedes:
( ) a fact that is the cause of the above.
( ) a fact that is the purpose of the above.
( ) a fact that is the consequence of the above.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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