Portuguese Activity: Questions about Verbal Modes

Portuguese activity, aimed at 8th grade students, consists of questions about the verbal manners(indicative, subjunctive and imperative), through the fable the lion and the mouse.

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

the lion and the mouse

A mouse was walking on a sleeping lion. When he woke up, he caught the mouse. It was about to devour it when the mouse, in a gesture of despair, asked the lion to let it go:

'If you spare me,' said the mouse, 'I will be of use to you.

And the lion, finding it amusing, let him go. Later, the lion was trapped in a hunter's net. The rat heard his roar of rage, went over there, gnawed at the ropes and released him. And he said to the lion:

– That day, you made fun of me. He then learns that gratitude is also found among rats.

One good deed wins another.

Adapted from Aesop. fables. Translation: Antonio Carlos Vianna. Porto Alegre: L&PM, 2006.

Question 1 - The presence of the subjunctive mode is registered in the passage:

a) "A mouse went walking on a sleeping lion."

b) "I was about to devour it when the mouse […]"

c) “– If you spare me – said the mouse – I will be of use to you.”

d) "Learn then that even among rats you also find gratitude."

Question 2 - In the context of the passage identified in the question above, the subjunctive mode indicates:

a) an order given by the mouse.

b) a proposal made to the lion.

c) a request made by the mouse.

d) an advice addressed to the lion.

Question 3 – Identify the part of the fable in which the imperative mode was used:

Question 4 – Highlight the verbs that make up the following sentences:

a) “The rat heard your roars of rage […]”

b) “And he said to the lion:

c) “– On that day you mocked me.”

d) "One good deed wins another."

Question 5 - The underlined verbs are in the mode:

( ) indicative

( ) subjunctive

( ) imperative

By Denyse Lage Fonseca

Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

At answers are in the link above the header.

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