Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, addresses paroxytone words. How about analyzing these words in the text Salar de Uyuni? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt flat in the world, concentrating around 10 billion tons of salt. Have you ever imagined a place like this?! With so much salt, people take the opportunity to make bricks with the material and, thus, build houses and hotels. This true salt desert occupies more than 10 thousand square kilometers, something comparable to twice the city of Brasília, in the Federal District.
The Salar's soil is formed by several layers of different types of salt, which reach more than 120 meters deep! The surface is a crust of sodium chloride, the salt we use in the kitchen, with a thickness that, depending on the place, can be from a few centimeters to meters. Below it are brines of sodium, lithium and magnesium chlorides, interspersed with layers of clay.
Magazine “Science Today for Children”. Edition 277.
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Question 1 - The word “plain” is emphasized because it is:
( ) proparoxytone.
( ) oxytone ending in “e”.
( ) paroxytone ending in a diphthong.
Question 2 – In the first paragraph of the text, there is another word accentuated by the rule indicated in the previous question. Point this word:
( ) “hotels”.
( ) “kilometers”.
( ) “Brasilia”.
Question 3 – Identify the passage in which the underlined word is paroxytone:
( ) “Already Had I ever imagined a place like this?!”
( ) “[…] something comparable twice the city of Brasília […]”
( ) “[…] may have some centimeters up to meters.”
Question 4 – Inform the reason for the accentuation of the highlighted word in the passage identified above:
Question 5 – The accented words, “sodium”, “lithium” and “magnesium”, are:
( ) oxytones.
( ) paroxysmal.
( ) proparoxytones.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
