Portuguese Activity: Prepositions

Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth year of elementary school, addresses the prepositions. How about analyzing them in the text images and sounds? So, answer the proposed questions! In “[…] reaching a common conclusion.”, is the word “a” a preposition, definite article or oblique personal pronoun? Let's go to the challenge?

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

images and sounds

In January 2016, a study on canine recognition of human emotions and also of other dogs was presented. Researchers from Brazil and England came together to study something curious, reaching a common conclusion. It was more or less like this… The dogs were sitting in front of two screens. On one of them a positive expression appeared, which could be from another dog or a person, and on the other screen, a negative expression. At the same time, the researchers triggered a vocalization from the same individual in the photo as they were seeing (dogs' bark or people's voices) positive or negative or neutral sound (a noise any).

Text fragment: “Do dogs recognize emotions?”. “Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 279. Available in: .

Questions

Question 1 - “In January 2016”. The prepositions "In" and "of" compose an expression that:

( ) indicates place.

( ) indicates mode.

( ) indicates time.

Question 2 - In the passage “[…] a study was presented about the canine recognition of emotions […]”, the highlighted preposition establishes the relationship of:

( ) subject matter.

( ) goal.

( ) top position.

Question 3 - In the excerpt “[…] reaching a common conclusion.”, the word “a” is:

( ) preposition.

( ) definite article.

( ) oblique personal pronoun.

Question 4 – In this period, there is a prepositional phrase. Brand it:

"The dogs sat in front of two screens."

Question 5 - In one of the segments below, the underlined term is the combination of a preposition with a definite article. Tick ​​it:

( ) "Researchers of Brazil and England came together to study something curious […]"

( ) "In a from them a positive expression appeared […]"

( ) “To the at the same time, the researchers triggered a vocalization of the same individual […]"

Per Denyse Lage Fonseca

Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

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