Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, with questions that propose the study of past tense imperfect. Can you identify the inflected verb in this tense? And do you know the role it plays in the communicative context? Let's learn? The questions are based on the tale a superior man, written by Machado de Assis.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
After a sleepless night, Clemente Soares left the house he lived in, on Rua da Misericórdia, and began to walk aimlessly through the streets of the city.
It was four o'clock in the morning.
The gas men were beginning to extinguish the lamps, and the streets, not yet well lit by the dawn, which was just pointing, had a gloomy aspect. Clement walked slowly and thoughtfully. From time to time a greengrocer who went to the market squares with a basket or tray on her head would run into him, accompanied by a black man who carried another basket and the stall. Clement seemed to wake up from his reveries, but he quickly relapsed into them until another interruption.
As the sky cleared, the doors of the taverns opened to compete with the street coffee vendors who had roamed the city since midnight in every direction. At the same time, the workers from the arsenals began to pass, thundering the streets with their thick clogs. Not a few entered the taverns and warmed their stomachs.
Newspaper couriers completed their task with that precision of memory that I had always envied these press officers. Taverns opened their doors and decorated the portals with samples of use. After a while it was fully daylight; the city was already beginning to rise up; numerous people walked the street; stores of all kinds opened their doors… It was daytime.
Clemente Soares did not give faith to all this gradual change; he continued to walk aimlessly, until, tired, he went to Praia de Santa Luzia, and there he stood looking out to sea.
[…]
ASSIS, Ax de. “Complete work in four volumes: Volume 2”. Nova Aguilar, 2008.
Question 1 - The text above ends:
a) literary
b) religious
c) journalistic
d) scientific
Question 2 - In the segment “[…] roamed the city in all senses….”, the verb in the past tense “traveled” has as subject:
a) “the gas men”.
b) “the itinerant coffee sellers”.
c) “the arsenal workers”.
d) “the newspaper deliverers”.
Question 3 - "The taverns opened their doors and decorated the portals with samples of use." Indicate verbs that could take the place of "ornavam" in this part of the text:
A:
Question 4 – In the excerpt “Clemente walked slow and thoughtful.”, the verb in the past tense introduces a sequence with function:
a) pronominal
b) adjective
c) adverbial
d) noun
Question 5 - Taking into account the use of the past tense, the prayer “[…] the doors of the bars were opened […]” for the active voice in:
a) “[…] the doors of the taverns were opened […]”
b) “[…] the doors of the taverns would be opened […]”
c) “[…] the doors of the taverns were opened […]”
d) “[…] the doors of the taverns are opened […]”
Question 6 – Underline the verbs in the past tense that make up the following sentences:
a) "From time to time a greengrocer who went to the squares would collide with him [...]"
b) "Clement seemed to wake up from his reveries, but he quickly relapsed into them until another interruption."
c) “After a while it was completely day; already the whole city was starting to rise […]"
d) “[…] numerous people walked the street […]”
Question 7 – It can be concluded that the use of the past tense, throughout the text, points to facts:
a) unlikely.
b) completed.
c) predictable.
d) unfinished.
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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