Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth grade of elementary school, addresses definite articles. Are we going to analyze them in the text about the Great-billed Woodcreeper? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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With up to 35 centimeters in length and about 100 grams, it has a large beak, measuring 7.2 centimeters. The neck is thin and the song is long.
Also known as the great-billed woodcreeper, the bird uses its tail as a support to climb trees and explores, with its beak, crevices in the woods and bark of trees in search of food. The “instrument” is also used to pull out and break pieces of bark and remove mosses and lichens with side blows.
The males are larger than the females of the species. Both take turns incubating the eggs and caring for the offspring, which are born blind and covered in feathers.
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Question 1 – Identify the passage that contains a definite article:
( ) “Also known as the woodcreeper […]”
( ) “[…] remove mosses and lichens with lateral blows.”
( ) “[…] be careful with the offspring, which are born blind and covered in feathers.”
Question 2 – In the passage identified above, the article defines the noun:
Question 3 – Underline the following definite article:
“The neck is thin […]”
Question 4 – Watch:
“[…] the bird uses its tail as support […]”
It can be stated that:
( ) the first “a” is the definite article.
( ) the second “a” is the definite article.
( ) the first “a” and the second “a” are definite articles.
Question 5 – In the part “Males are larger than females […]”, the definite articles indicate:
( ) the same gender.
( ) the same number.
( ) the same gender and the same number.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
