Portuguese activity proposed to 3rd year high school students, explores the different uses of the “comma”, in a contextualized way.
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Read this inspiring text very carefully:
Give your best and life will repay you! We often spend a long time of our lives desperately chasing after something we want, be it love, a job, a friendship, a home, etc. Life often uses symbols, events that are signs so that we can understand that, before we deserve it what we want, we need to learn something important, we need to be ready and mature to live certain situations.
If this is happening in your life, stop and reflect on the following sentence: don't run after the butterflies. Take care of your garden and they will come to you! We must understand that life goes its flow and that flow is perfect. Everything happens in its due time. We humans are the ones who become anxious and are constantly wanting to "push the river". The river goes alone, following the rhythm of nature. If we spend all our time wishing for the butterflies and complaining because they don't come near us but live in our neighbor's garden, they really won't come. But if we dedicate ourselves to taking care of our garden and transforming our space (our life) into a pleasant, fragrant and beautiful environment, it will be inevitable - the butterflies will come to us!
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1) The text is constructed through the following metaphor “Don't run after the butterflies. Take care of your garden and they will come to you”. Explain it in your own words:
2) Reread this passage:
“But if we dedicate ourselves to taking care of our garden and transforming our space (our life) into a pleasant, fragrant and beautiful environment, it will be inevitable – the butterflies will come to us!”
Now identify:
a) The idea expressed by the underlined connector:
b) Other connectors that express the same idea:
3) Identify, in the text, a example of using the comma for the enumeration of aspects:
4) List the columns:
Excerpts from the text:
a) “The river goes alone, obeying the rhythm of nature.”.
b) “Often, we spend a long time of our lives running desperately […]”.
c) “[…] life uses symbols, events that are signs so that we can understand that, before we deserve what we want […]”.
d) “[…] we need to learn something important, we need to be ready and mature to live certain situations.
e) “If this is happening in your life, stop and reflect on the following sentence.”.
Justifications for the employment of comma:
___ inserting an explanation
___ separate coordinated sentences
___ inversion in order of terms
___ isolate adverbial
___ before gerund
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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