Portuguese activity, focused on students in the ninth grade of elementary school, addresses demonstrative pronouns. Let's analyze them in the text that presents the film ice dreams? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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Casey Carlyle is a normal teenager, who is encouraged by Bast, her physics professor, who believes she has the potential to get a scholarship and be a student at Harvard. But she needs to present a personal work. Thus, between calculation books and ingenious theories, he directs his research towards figure skating, as he believes that there is an exact aerodynamic formula for those movements. Casey didn't imagine that she would be so fascinated by _________ sport, to the point of considering Physics less important. This provokes the despair of the mother, Joan Carlyle, an English literature professor who dreams of seeing her daughter at Harvard.
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Question 1 – Identify the segment that contains a demonstrative pronoun:
( ) “But she needs to present a personal work.”
( ) “Thus […] he directs his research towards figure skating […]”
( ) “[…] an exact aerodynamic formula for those movements.”
Question 2 – Fill in the space, indicated in the passage below, with “this” or “that”:
“Casey had no idea that she would be so fascinated by _________ sports that she would consider Physics less important.”
Question 3 – Name a demonstrative pronoun that could replace the pronoun used in the passage above:
Question 4 – In the section “This provokes the despair of the mother, Joan Carlyle, a professor of English literature who dreams of seeing her daughter at Harvard.”, the demonstrative pronoun has the function of:
( ) retrieve information.
( ) announce information.
( ) supplement information.
Question 5 – The demonstrative pronoun in the above sentence is:
( ) invariable.
( ) variable in number.
( ) Variable in gender and number.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
