Portuguese Activity: Prepositions in the text about the origin of the elevator

Portuguese activity, aimed at eighth grade students, addresses the prepositions. How about analyzing them in the text that tells us the origin of the elevator? In the phrase “[…] to transport goods.”, would you know what the preposition “to” indicates? A condition, a conclusion or a purpose? Let's go to the challenge?

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

How did the elevator come about?

The first elevator appeared in 1500 BC, in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), to transport goods. It was only in the 1st century BC that the device was adapted, in Rome, for domestic use and the transport of people. And, of course, they weren't powered by electricity: installed in Roman houses, they operated with cranks, turned by slaves. It wasn't until 1800 that an Englishman, whose name is unknown, used a steam engine to make elevators work.

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Questions

Question 1 - In the sentence “The first elevator appeared in 1500 BC […]”, the preposition “in” introduces an adverbial adjunct that indicates:

( ) time

( ) place

( ) certainty

Question 2 - In the excerpt “[…] for transport goods.”, the highlighted preposition reads:

( ) condition

( ) conclusion

( ) goal

Question 3 - In the part “[…] they were not powered by electricity […]”, “a” is:

( ) the article that defines the noun “electricity”.

( ) the personal pronoun that takes up a noun.

( ) the preposition that accompanies the verb “moved”.

Question 4 – Identify the passage in the text in which the highlighted word plays the preposition function:

( ) “It was only in the 1st century BC what the device was adapted […]"

( ) “[…] for domestic use and transport in people."

( ) “[…] of those who do not if know the name […]”

Question 5 - In the sentence “[…] worked with cranks […]”, the preposition “with” expresses:

( ) the way the elevators worked.

( ) the intensity with which the elevators worked.

( ) the way the elevators worked.

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

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