Portuguese activity, aimed at eighth grade students, addresses the reflective voice verb. How about learning about this verbal voice? To do this, answer the text-based questions Oh, I broke the thermometer! In it, the author reveals what happens to mercury, a liquid present inside the thermometer, when this instrument breaks… Are you curious? So, be sure to read the text and, of course, study the reflective voice!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
If you've ever let a thermometer fall to the floor and break, you must have been surprised to see that mercury, that silvery liquid inside it, spreads out into little balls. If you put these balls together (only do this with a glove, as mercury is very toxic), they clump together to form an even larger ball.
What makes this happen is a phenomenon called surface tension, which is the force on the surface of all liquids at rest. The strength of this force varies according to the material and, in the case of mercury, it is quite strong.
Maria Ramos. Available in:. (Fragment).
Question 1 - The “if” indicates the reflective voice of a verb in the excerpt:
( ) “If you've ever let a thermometer fall to the ground and break […]”
( ) “If you put these balls together […]”
( ) “[…] they group together to form an even larger ball.”
Question 2 - In the excerpt marked in the previous question, the "if" is:
( ) a pronoun
( ) a conjunction
( ) a preposition
Question 3 - In the passage “[…] it spreads into little balls.”, the verb in the reflective voice has as subject:
( ) "a thermometer"
( ) "the mercury"
( ) "that liquid"
Question 4 – In the passage above, the verb in the reflective voice expresses:
( ) an action
( ) a state
( ) an attribute
Question 5 - In the reflective voice, the subject is:
( ) agent of the action expressed by the verb.
( ) patient of the action expressed by the verb.
( ) agent and patient of the action expressed by the verb.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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