Professora Liana

ATIVIDADE EXTRA - 2º SERIE
1.Complete as frases com as formas de comparativo dos adjetivos entre parênteses.
Oriente-se pelas indicações de igualdade, superioridade, inferioridade em cada
caso.
a) Popcorn is _____________________________ chocola te. ( = delicious)
b) I think Jennifer lopes is ______________________ ___ Julia Roberts. (= pretty)
c) Sylvester Stallone is _________________________ Sean Connery. (+ young)
d) Rambo is ________________________ James bond. (- popular)
e) Whoopi Goldberg is ______________________ Bette Midler. (+ funny)
f) AI was _______________________ than other Spielberg`s movies. (+ interesting)
The Mighty Amazon
The Amazon is the largest river in the world. Measuring about 6,400 kilometers
from source to mouth, it is second in length only to the Nile.
The Nile flows 6,695 kilometers in Africa and is the longest, but it does not compare
with the South America river in other respects. With its numerous tributaries (more
than 1,100 in total), the Amazon drains a territory of more than 7 million square
kilometers (40% of South America) the largest river basin in the world. The Amazon
has by far the greatest volume of any river, carrying more water than Nile,
Mississippi and Yangtzwrivers combined. In a single second it discharges about
180,000 cubic meters of water into the Atlantic, pushing back the waters of the
ocean for enormous distances. It is so powerful that you can take and drink fresh
water from the ocean 150 kilometers away from the river mouth.
The exact source of the Amazon, the precise location where the great river begins,
had for a long time been the subject of argument and speculation, but in 2001, in an
expedition sponsored by the National Geographic Society, an international team of
explorers managed to find the true source.
Using the most modern GPS (Global Positioning System) navigational equipment,
the explorers identified the place where the Amazon begins as a small stream on a
mountain called Nevado Mismi in the Peruvian Andes, roughly 60 kilometers away
from Lima and the Pacific Ocean. It is just a trickle of water but it is the true origin
of the mightiest, the most powerful river in the world.
Vocabulary:
mighty: poderoso; measuring: medindo; source: nascente, origem: mouth:foz;
length: comprimento, extensão; to flow: corre, flui
; tributaries: afluentes; to drain: drenar, regar;
square: quadrado; basin: bacia; to discharge: desca
rregar; sponsored: patrocinado; to manage: conduzir, tartar, administrar; stream:
córrego; Peruvian: Peruano; trickle of water: fio de água.
2.O texto destaca a supeerioridade do rio Amazonas em
relação a outros rios do mundo
em vários aspectos. Dos adjetivos abaixo, identifiq
ue o único que não se refere ao rio Amazonas.
a) the largest
b) the mightiest
c) the greatest
d) the most powerful
e) the longest
3.Identifique as afirmações verdadeiras (T) e as falsas (F). Em seguida, corrija as
falsas.
a) The Nile is the largest river in the world.
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b) The Nile is longer than the Amazon but it does n
ot compare with the Amazon in other respects.
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c) The volume of water carried by the Amazon is much larger than that of any other
river.
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d) The Amazon carries more water than all the other rivers in the world combined.
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e) In 2001 explorers discovered the source of the Amazon is in the Peruvian Andes,
near the Atlantic Ocean.
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f) The Amazon begins as a large river on a mountain in the Andes.
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4. Complete as frases com o superlativo dos adjetivos entre parênteses:
a) The Amazon is not the __________________ river in the world, because the Nile
is longer than the Amazon. (long – superlative de superioridade)
b) Amazon is the _______________________ river in the world. (powerful –
superlative de superioridade)
c) The recent discovery of the true source of the Amazon is one of the
_____________________ in geographical terms. (important – superlativo de sup
erioridade)
d) The Amazon is the _______________ river in the world. (large – superlativo de
superioridade)
e) Today was the __________________ day of the month. (cold - superlativo de
inferioridade).
GOOD LUCK! TEACHER LIANA.