Portuguese activity, aimed at 8th grade students, proposes the study of adverbial phrase, through text fragment The capital.
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[…] At 2, 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning, children aged 9 and 10 are pulled out of filthy beds and forced to work until 10, 11 or 12 at night, in order to earn what is indispensable for mere subsistence. With this, his limbs wither, his stature atrophies, his cheeks turn livid, his being sinks into a stony torpor, horrifying to behold […]
Factories and men: the Industrial Revolution and the daily lives of workers. São Paulo: Current, 1999, p.39-40.
Question 1 - With the help of a dictionary, identify the meanings that the following words have in the context above:
a) atrophy:
b) livid:
c) torpor:
d) stone:
Question 2 - In the excerpt "Thereby, their limbs wither, their stature atrophies, their faces become livid […]”, the highlighted term establishes a relationship of:
a) opposition
b) cause
c) consequence
d) condition
Question 3 - The adverbial phrase "At 2, 3 and 4 am" indicates:
in time
b) place
c) mode
d) doubt
Question 4 – “[…] what is indispensable to the mere subsistence.”, the prefix “sub” indicates a position:
a) superior
b) lower
c) beside
d) interior
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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