Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth year of elementary school, on demonstrative pronouns. How about analyzing them in the text Ice Age: The First Mass Extinction? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
The planet's temperature has greatly decreased. Many glaciers formed on land and in the seas, causing what scientists call glaciation. unbearable cold, brrrr! Part of the oceans also froze, altering the sea currents and causing its water level to decrease by about 100 meters. All this may have been caused by the movement of part of the continents towards the south pole of the Earth.
All life forms on the planet inhabited the seas and oceans during this period, being greatly affected by the changes that took place. It is estimated that eight out of ten species went extinct during the ____________ great ice age.
Magazine “Science Today for Children”. Edition 237.
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Question 1 - Watch:
“[…] causing what scientists call glaciation.”
In this passage, the word “o” works as a demonstrative pronoun. Because?
Question 2 – Underline the following demonstrative pronoun:
“All this could have been caused by the movement of part of the continents […]”
Question 3 – The underlined demonstrative pronoun above is:
( ) invariable.
( ) variable in number.
( ) variable in gender and number.
Question 4 – The term, underlined in the segment “[…] inhabited the seas and oceans in that period […]”, is the contraction of a preposition with the demonstrative pronoun “esse”. What preposition?
Question 5 - In the passage “[…] eight out of ten species became extinct during ____________ great ice age.”, the space must be filled with the demonstrative pronoun:
( ) "it is".
( ) "That".
( ) "that one".
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
