Portuguese activity, proposed to students in the ninth year of elementary school, with questions that propose the study of conjunctions. Students are guided to identify the conjunctions and the relationships of meaning, established by them, in the construction of the reflective text within us, the joy, written by Ivan Martins.
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Does joy come from within or without us? The question occurs to me in the middle of a carnival block as I scream Roberto's immortal verses Carlos, sung in samba rhythm: “I want you to warm me up this winter, and everything else to go to hell".
I'm happy, of course. Around me is a group of friends and a noisy, colorful crowd. Still, the answer about joy eludes me. Does my heart smile in response to this party, or is it just an echo of your own unexpected contentment?
Although simple, the question is not trivial. If I am able to find joy in myself, life will be one. If it needs to be picked up permanently, it will be another, probably worse.
I think of love, a permanent source of joy and apprehension.
When it is taken away from us, an immeasurable and endless sadness is installed in us, which has the face of those who left us. It comes from outside, it is imposed on us by circumstances, but it becomes part of us. A mourning incarnate. A million carnivals would be unable to lighten the darkness of this night if there were not, within us, some own source of joy. We wouldn't even be on the street if it weren't for her. _________ we would be encouraged to see the crowd up close. We would stay at home, overwhelmed by our sadness, mulling over the details of what no longer exists. In the distance, we would hear the drumming, and it would seem remote and alien.
Our joy exists, however. That's why we are able to sing and dance when fate strikes us.
[…]
Whether joy comes from within or without? From the inside, of course. But its most beautiful symptom is throwing us out, against the music and dance of the world, against ourselves.
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Question 1 - Mark the passage in the text in which the conjunction was correctly identified in parentheses:
a) “Joy comes from within or from outside of us?” (alternative conjunction)
b) “[…] and that everything more go to hell". (adversative conjunction)
c) “[…] an immeasurable sadness settles in us and without end […]” (explanatory conjunction)
d) “Our joy exists, However.” (conclusive conjunction)
Question 2 - In the period "Even so, the answer about joy eludes me.”, the conjunction in evidence could be replaced by:
a) Despite this
b) Therefore
c) But also
d) Since
Question 3 - In the segment “_________ we would encourage ourselves to see the crowd up close.”, the author establishes the relation of adding ideas. Therefore, the marked space must be filled with the conjunction:
a) However
b) Therefore
c) Neither
d) Because
Question 4 – In the passage "That is why we are able to sing and dance when fate strikes us.”, the highlighted conjunction indicates:
a) a comparison
b) a conclusion
c) an explanation
d) a condition
Question 5 - In the excerpt “But its most beautiful symptom is throwing us out […]”, the word “more” works as:
a) additive conjunction
b) adversative conjunction
c) indefinite pronoun
d) intensity adverb
Question 6 – Point out the spelling of the "why" that completes the gap in the following sentence, working as an explanatory conjunction:
Singing and dancing ___________ was very happy!
why
b) why
c) why
d) why
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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