Portuguese Activity: Conjunctions

Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, explores the conjunctions. How about analyzing how they work in the text The potential of ecotourism in Lages? You could say, for example, what the adversative conjunction “However” introduces in the sentence “Although, there is still no use of all related tourism potential […]”? A contrast, a caveat or a trade-off? Shall we answer?

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The potential of ecotourism in Lages

Lages is known for its annual pine nuts festival. Araucaria seeds are appreciated not only by visitors to the pine nuts festival, but also by the charão population, being the main reason for the greater concentration of charão in the city. ____________, the araucaria represents a resource of great economic potential and ecological importance for the municipalities of the mountain region of Santa Catarina. However, there is still no use of all tourism potential related, directly or indirectly, to the araucaria population in the region. […]

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Questions

Question 1 - Look carefully at this passage. Then, underline the conjunction that plays the role of uniting ideas that complement each other:

Araucaria seeds are appreciated not only by visitors to the pine nuts festival, but also by the charão population […]

Question 2 - In order to establish the completion relationship, the space must be completed with:

( ) the conjunction “Although”.

( ) the conjunction “Because”.

( ) the conjunction “Therefore”.

Question 3 - In the excerpt "Although, there is still no use of all related tourism potential […]”, the highlighted adverse conjunction introduces:

( ) a contrast

( ) one caveat

( ) a compensation

Question 4 – Check the sentence in which the conjunction was correctly used:

( ) Charões are concentrated in Lages because they appreciate Araucaria seeds.

( ) The charões are concentrated in Lages because they appreciate Araucaria seeds.

( ) Charões are concentrated in Lages because they appreciate Araucaria seeds.

Question 5 - In the segment “[…] directly or indirectly, to the population of araucarias in the region.”, the conjunction underlined is:

( ) additive

( ) explanatory

( ) alternative

Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

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