Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, explores the intensity adverbs. How about analyzing the terms that intensify the meaning of verbs, adjectives and adverbs? To do so, answer the various questions proposed based on the curious text Why do stars fall? In “The biggest ones – the popular shooting stars or meteors, as scientists identify – shine so much as they catch fire that they can be seen from the surface of the Earth.”, which term is an adverb of intensity? Let's go to the challenge?
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For starters, stars don't fall. People swear they see stars streaking across the sky, but they're actually meteors. The word “meteor” comes from the Greek meteoron and it means “phenomenon in the sky”. Tens of thousands of solid objects, called meteoroids by astronomers, fall to Earth every year from extraterrestrial space. They are pieces of rock and metal. Some are so big they weigh tons. In contact with the planet's atmosphere, these objects catch fire and emit so much light that, from a distance, they look like a plummeting star.
When they pass through our planet's atmosphere, the smallest objects are immediately reduced to ash, emit little light and are not always visible. The biggest ones – the popular shooting stars or meteors, as scientists identify – glow so bright when they catch fire that they can be seen from the Earth's surface. Some pieces even resist fire and fall to the ground like real fireballs – they would be another form of “shooting star”.
These large chunks of material from space illuminate a large area of the sky at night and sometimes even during the day. Its extremely fast passage through the atmosphere creates a rumbling noise that can be heard from great distances. We have seen that sometimes the explosion causes the meteor to disappear completely, turning it into dust. But sometimes it produces fragments, a kind of “shower”, which fall in thousands to the ground and are baptized as meteorites.
It is very rare, but sometimes a massive celestial object, weighing thousands of tons, penetrates the Earth's atmosphere and, upon impact with the ground, vaporizes almost completely. However, it leaves its mark: when it hits solid ground, it produces a huge hole. Have you ever seen this scene in the Superman movie? A real example of these huge holes is the Barringer Crater, found in Arizona, United States. Look for it in books or do an internet search.
Now, when you look up at the sky and see something like a falling star, fill your lungs and scream, before someone makes a wish:
– It's a meteor!
Rosa Scorzelli. “Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 180. Available in: .
Question 1 - The highlighted adverb expresses intensity in the passage:
( ) “[…] the smallest objects are reduced to ashes immediately […]”
( ) “[…] due to the impact with the ground, it almost vaporizes completely.”
( ) “É much rare, but sometimes a celestial object of great mass […]”
Question 2 - In the segment “Some are so big they weigh tons.”, the adverb “so” was used to intensify the meaning of:
( ) a state of the subject.
( ) a way of being of the subject.
( ) a characteristic of the subject.
Question 3 - In the excerpt “In contact with the planet's atmosphere, these objects catch fire and emit so much light […]”, the underlined word works as:
( ) conjunction.
( ) indefinite pronoun.
( ) adverb of intensity.
Question 4 – Underline the adverb of intensity that makes up this period of the text:
"The biggest ones – the popular shooting stars or meteors, as scientists identify – glow so bright when they catch fire that they can be seen from the Earth's surface."
Question 5 - In the period above, the underlined adverb intensifies the meaning:
( ) of a verb.
( ) of an adjective.
( ) from an adverb.
Question 6 – Reread this passage from the text:
"Its extremely rapid passage through the atmosphere creates a rumbling noise that can be perceived from great distances."
In this passage, there is an adverb of intensity that modifies the meaning of the adjective:
( ) “fast”.
( ) “roaring”.
( ) "big ones".
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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