Portuguese activity, focused on first year high school students, explores prepositions. How about analyzing them in the text From discoveries of the past to technologies of the future? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
According to the International Council of Museums, a museum is a non-profit place, in the service of society, open to the public. Its function is to collect, conserve, research and display objects produced by man and nature – and _______ fun. In simpler terms: the function of museums is to enchant, to arouse questions, to teach us interesting things about the world and to make us leave there even more knowledgeable than when we entered.
Magazine “Science Today for Children”. Edition 211.
Available in:. (Fragment).
Question 1 - The term “a” is a preposition in the segment:
( ) “[…] a museum is a non-profit place, at the service of society […]”
( ) “In simpler terms: the function of museums is to enchant […]”
( ) “[…] make us leave there even more knowledgeable than when we came in.”
Question 2 – In the "Second the International Council of Museums […]”, the underlined word is:
( ) a noun.
( ) a preposition.
( ) an ordinal number.
Question 3 – The word, highlighted in the passage […] open to the public.” is:
( ) the contraction of a preposition with a definite article.
( ) the combination of a preposition with a definite article.
( ) the contraction of a preposition with a demonstrative pronoun.
Question 4 – The space in the text must be filled with the preposition:
( ) "in".
( ) "with".
( ) "for".
Question 5 - Watch:
“[…] teach us interesting things about the world […]”
In this passage, the preposition establishes the relationship of:
( ) cause.
( ) subject matter.
( ) top position.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
