Portuguese activity, focused on students in the seventh year of elementary school, about oxytone words. Let's analyze them in the text that introduces us to the book Mary Poppins? So, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Carrying a briefcase and an umbrella, she appeared for the first time flying, literally – and this is just the first of the surprises this fabulous nanny has for you. A birthday at the zoo, the Dancing Cow story, afternoon tea in the air, delicate patches in the night sky… Mary Poppins is tough and mysterious, and also irresistible!
Published in 1934, the first Mary Poppins story was an immediate success and has fascinated children and adults ever since. […]
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Question 1 - Identify the passage where the highlighted word is oxytone:
( ) “[…] the first of the surprises that this fabulous nanny has for you.”
( ) “An anniversary on the Zoo, the story of the Dancing Cow […]”
( ) "[…] the first story of Mary Poppins was an immediate hit […]"
Question 2 - The word oxytone, highlighted in the excerpt identified above, is:
( ) an adjective.
( ) a pronoun.
( ) a noun.
Question 3 - The word "nanny" is accented because:
( ) is oxytone.
( ) is an oxytone ending in “a”.
( ) is an oxytone ending in a vowel.
Question 4 – Note this period of the text:
"Mary Poppins is tough and mysterious, and also irresistible!"
Now, identify the accented term oxytone that composes it:
( ) “é”.
( ) "also".
( ) “irresistible”.
Question 5 - A word is oxytone when it has as its tonic:
( ) the last syllable.
( ) the penultimate syllable.
( ) the third to last syllable.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.