Portuguese activity, aimed at 8th grade students, proposes the study of prefix, through a reflective text written by Albert Einstein.
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Read this text written by Albert Einstein:
The most beautiful thing man can experience is mystery. This is the fundamental emotion that is at the root of all science and art. The man who is ignorant of this charm, incapable of feeling awe and amazement, is already, as it were, dead, and his eyes are extinguished. […]
Knowing that there is something unfathomable, feeling the presence of something deeply rational, radiantly beautiful, something that we understand only in rudimentary form – this is the experience that genuinely constitutes the attitude religious. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to deeply religious men.
Einstein's Living Thought. São Paulo: Martin Claret, 1984.
Question 1 - Note these words:
unknown incapable unfathomable
a) Identify the prefixes that make up the words above:
b) Check the idea expressed by the aforementioned prefixes:
( ) leave
( ) opposition
( ) denial
( ) lower position
Question 2 - Check the alternative where the highlighted verb is a link:
a) “This is the fundamental emotion that it is at the root of all science and art.”
b) “The man who does not know this charm […]"
c) “[…] something that we understand only in rudimentary form […]"
d) “[…] this is the experience that constitutes the genuinely religious attitude.”
Question 3 - In “[…] I belong to men deep religious.”, the suffix of the term underlined indicates:
rent
b) time
c) statement
d) mode
Question 4 – In the excerpt “[…] this is already, so to speak, dead, and his eyes are extinct.”, the underlined term works syntactically as:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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