Portuguese activity, suitable for 8th grade students, aims to study the relative pronoun, through text-based questions The Shah of Blah blah blah.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
The Shah of Blah blah blah
Once upon a time, in the country of Alefbey, a sad city, the saddest of cities, a city so devastatingly sad that it had even forgotten its own name. It stood on the edge of a bleak sea, full of fish—complaining, grieving fish, so horrible to eat that they made people belch with pure melancholy, even when the sky was blue.
To the north of this sad city, there were mighty factories in which the sadness (so I was told) was literally
Salman Rushdie. "Haroun and the Sea of Stories". São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2010.
Question 1 - The text read is of nature:
a) fictional
b) scientific
c) technique
d) journalistic
Question 2 - In the excerpt “[…] there were powerful factories in which the sadness (so they told me) was literally manufactured […]”, the highlighted relative pronoun could be replaced by:
a) of which
tram
c) which
d) with which
Question 3 - The pronoun indicated in the previous question indicates the idea of:
Question 4 – In “[…] who always seemed to want more.”, the relative pronoun “that” takes up:
a) the country of Alefbey.
b) the people.
c) the powerful factories.
Worldwide.
Question 5 - In the passage “[…] that hung over the city like bad news.”, the pronoun “that” is related to the antecedent:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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