Portuguese activity, aimed at seventh-year students, aims to study the adjectives. How about identifying them and understanding the role they play in the book review Everything has a beginning and an end, written by Marina Colasanti? So, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
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Read:
Everything has a beginning and an end
In this delicate book, the author demonstrates a poetic look at everyday life, even in its simplest activities and facts. In a unique way, always seeking beauty and the unusual, even in the most unpretentious moments, Marina Colasanti shows that poetry is in the eyes of the beholder and that everything has its lyrical side. We are invited to renew our perceptions about the objects and situations that surround us and to see them with a new enchantment. Thus, in the brevity of each moment, poetry is present in everyone's life.
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Question 1 - Look carefully at the first sentence of the text. Then, underline the adjectives that comprise it:
"In this delicate book, the author demonstrates a poetic look at everyday life, even in her simplest activities and facts."
Question 2 - The adjectives underlined in the question above:
( ) evaluate the book “Everything has a beginning and an end”.
( ) describe the book “Everything has a beginning and an end”.
( ) correct the book “Everything has a beginning and an end”.
Question 3 - In the excerpt “In a singular way, always seeking beauty and the unusual […]”, the adjective “singular” forms a phrase that indicates:
( ) time
( ) cause
( ) mode
Question 4 – In the phrase “[…] even in the most unpretentious moments […]”, the term “more”:
( ) complements the meaning of the adjective “unpretentious”.
( ) intensifies the meaning of the adjective “unpretentious”.
( ) explains the meaning of the adjective “unpretentious”.
Question 5 - The adjective "new" features in the review:
( ) “enchantment”.
( ) “every moment”.
( ) “present in each one's life”.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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