Portuguese activity, aimed at first-year high school students, explores the conjunctions. These are those words that link the ideas that make up the text, establishing different relationships of meaning! How about breaking them down in the curious text that asks Why do we open our mouths when we are sleepy? For this study, answer the various questions proposed below!
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Eyes almost closing, body limp and mouth wide open. This is yawning, the body's way of getting around sleep. The act also happens when we see another person yawning and even in the animal world.
Yawning is an involuntary reflex that tells you we need to sleep. It happens _______________, when we are entering the period of drowsiness, there is a drop of oxygen in the system central nervous system of the brain, and yawning generates a deep stimulus of air intake in an attempt to keep us agreed. Yawning is not always associated with sleep: it can be a lack of oxygen, as happens, for example, when we exercise.
When we start yawning, it's not possible to stop. We can even close our mouths, but the muscles that were triggered by the reflex continue to contract. In up to 70% of the population, when someone yawns near us, we also open our mouths. It's still unclear why this happens, but theories suggest it could be empathy or imitation. The area of the brain responsible for empathy, the ability to understand feelings and emotions, is activated in these situations, while mirror neurons copy the action being witnessed, as with laughter, which is contagious.
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Question 1 - Identify, by means of a dash, the conjunction that makes up the title of the text:
"Why do we open our mouths when we're sleepy?"
Question 2 - The conjunction, identified above, indicates:
a) mode
b) place
c) time
d) intensity
Question 3 - Locate, in the first sentence, the conjunction that links the characteristics of the yawn:
A.
Question 4 – Check the alternative in which the conjunction was used correctly in the space marked in the text:
a) “It happens because …. there is a drop in oxygen in the central nervous system […]"
b) “It happens because …. there is a drop in oxygen in the central nervous system […]"
c) “It happens because …. there is a drop in oxygen in the central nervous system […]"
d) “It happens because …. there is a drop in oxygen in the central nervous system […]"
Question 5 - The highlighted term is an additive conjunction in the passage:
a) "The act also happens when we see another person yawning […]"
B) "[…] and yawning generates a deep stimulus for air intake […]"
c) “Yawn nor it is always associated with sleep […]"
d) "Yet it's not really known why this happens […]”
Question 6 – In the excerpt “[…] that were triggered by the reflex continue to contract.”, is the word “if” a conjunction that expresses a condition? Explain:
A.
Question 7 – In the segment “We can even close the mouth, but the muscles that were activated by the reflex […]”, the conjunction “but” expresses:
a) a caveat
b) a compensation
c) an addition
d) a consequence
Question 8 – In the part “[…] but the theories point out that it can be empathy or imitation.”, the presence of:
a) an adversative conjunction and a conditional conjunction.
b) an additive conjunction and an explanatory conjunction.
c) an adversative conjunction and an alternative conjunction.
d) a concessive conjunction and a proportional conjunction.
Question 9 – In “[…] as with laughter, which is contagious.”, the conjunction “as well as” introduces:
a) a cause
b) a comparison
c) an example
d) a purpose
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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