Portuguese activity, focused on students of the first year of high school, about definite articles. Let's analyze them in the text Happy Birthday to You…? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
The long-awaited date is celebrated only once a year. And birthday is just that! The word comes from Latin birthday and means “what comes back every year”. The first records of birthday celebrations similar to those of today are from Roman civilization, back in antiquity.
The Romans celebrated the christmas days, that is, the day of birth. The celebration began among the nobles, but little by little it became a habit among the people as well.
Interestingly, the day of birth was not celebrated exactly on the day of the birth of the birthday, but in the so-called kalendas, which was equivalent to the first day of the month, the most important for the Romans.
Magazine “Science Today for Children”. Edition 229.
Available in:. (Fragment).
Question 1 - Underline the following definite article:
“The long-awaited date is celebrated only once a year.”
Question 2 – Regarding the passage “what comes back every year”, it can be said that:
( ) “the” is the definite article.
( ) “os” is a definite article.
( ) “the” and “os” are definite articles.
Question 3 – In the passage “The commemoration began among the nobles […]”, the definite articles:
( ) indicate the same genus.
( ) indicate different gender and number.
( ) indicate the same gender and the same number.
Question 4 – In the part “[…] but, little by little, it became a habit of the people […]”, “a” is:
( ) preposition.
( ) definite article.
( ) personal pronoun.
Question 5 - In “[…] it was equivalent to the first day of the month, the most important day for the Romans.”, there is a word that is the combination of a preposition with a definite article. Tick it:
( ) "to the".
( ) "of".
( ) "for".
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
