Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth year of elementary school, about stressed tonic monosyllables. How about analyzing them in the text A trip to heaven by the Guarani Mbya Indians? For this, answer the proposed questions!
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You may have already heard about Cruzeiro do Sul or Três Marias, constellations that we can see in the sky over Brazil. But do you also know Tuya’i and Kuruxu? Because there are other sets of stars that we can find, according to the indigenous tradition. For the Guarani Mbya Indians who live in Rio de Janeiro, the constellations ________ names and histories different from those we know from traditional astronomy. It's another way of looking at the same sky…
“Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine.
Edition 198. Available in: .
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Question 1 – Identify the passage in which the highlighted word is a stressed monosyllable:
( ) “[…] constellations that we can observe in the sky from Brazil."
( ) “But you know also Tuya’i and Kuruxu?”
( ) “[…] other sets of stars that we can find, according to tradition indigenous.”
Question 2 – The stressed monosyllable, present in the excerpt identified above, is:
( ) an adjective.
( ) an adverb.
( ) a noun.
Question 3 – The word, highlighted in the segment “You already you must have heard about Cruzeiro do Sul or Três Marias […]", is emphasized because:
( ) is stressed monosyllable.
( ) is stressed monosyllable ending in “a”.
( ) is a stressed monosyllable ending in a vowel.
Question 4 – Complete the space, indicated below, with the stressed monosyllable “has” or with the stressed monosyllable “have”:
“[…] the constellations ________ names and histories different from those we know from traditional astronomy.”
Question 5 - Check the justification for the answer given in the previous question:
( ) The stressed monosyllable “has” is used to refer to a simple subject.
( ) The accented stressed monosyllable “have” is used to refer to a plural subject.
( ) The stressed stressed monosyllable “have” is used to refer to a compound subject.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
