Portuguese Activities About Pronominal Placement

We selected the best Portuguese activities on pronominal placement. So, take each one of them and apply it in the classroom. Remember it can be passed on as homework too. It is important that students practice outside of school as well. Enjoy!

Extra activities

the frog prince

Who doesn't know the fable of the prince who, bewitched by a witch, turned into a frog? What few people know is that a real nobleman, he won the title of "Prince Frog". Don't worry, he hasn't been bewitched or become an amphibian, but he's helping to conserve these animals.

I'm talking about Charles the Prince of Wales, son of the Queen of England Elizabeth II. Charles leads a project that invests in the conservation of tropical forests – such as the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest – and uses toads, frogs and tree frogs as symbols of his fight for nature. For this reason, he has been capriciously called “Prince Frog”.

Question 1 – In the first period of the text, an unstressed pronoun was used. Check the sentence in which he was identified:

( ) “Who does not know the fable of the prince […]”

( ) “[…] that, bewitched by a witch […]”

( ) “[…] turned into a frog?”

Question 2 – The unstressed pronoun, identified in the previous question, was incorrectly placed. Rewrite the sentence, according to the cultured norm. Then point out the rule in question:

A:

Question 3 – “Don't worry, he wasn't bewitched […]”. Why does proclisis occur?

A:

Question 4 – Point to another passage in the text where proclisis occurs for the same reason presented in the question above:

A:

Question 5 - The unstressed pronoun "if" was incorrectly placed in the sentence:

( ) Investments are made in the conservation of tropical forests.

( ) An event on the environmental project will be held.

( ) The work developed by “Principe Sapo” is always publicized.

Question 6 – Correct the prayer noted above:

A:

Read:

Question 1 - The effect of mood on the strip is in the fact that:

Question 2 - The term "So", which introduces the last comic, indicates a:

a) comparison

b) cause

c) conclusion

d) explanation

Question 3 – Explain the placement of the unstressed pronoun in the excerpt “But you don't look like her!!”.

Question 4 – In “The flirting of the net yielded!”, the highlighted verb could be replaced by:

a) recovered

b) progressed

c) interrupted

d) manifested

Question 5 – Check the form of the underlined verb in “Distorting reality a little…”:

( ) participle

( ) gerund

( ) infinitive