Portuguese Activity: Verbs in the past tense

Portuguese activity, suitable for seventh-year students, explores the past tense verbs. The questions are based on the curious text A woman from the interior of São Paulo created the “Happy Birthday”! Are we going to know the origin of this song so present in our lives? So, read the text and, in addition, study the past tense!

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

A woman from the interior of São Paulo created the “Happy Birthday”

In 1942, the Tupi radio station in Rio de Janeiro organized a contest to choose the lyrics in Portuguese for the melody of Happy Birthday to You, created in 1875 by the North Americans Mildred and Patricia Hill. The champion version, selected by the Brazilian Academy of Letters, was composed by a pharmacist from the interior of São Paulo.

Bertha Celeste Homem de Melo used to participate in contests using pseudonyms. She alone, among five thousand competitors, wrote four different verses, without repetition: Happy Birthday to You / In this especial date / a lot of happiness / Many years of life. It only took her five minutes to create the song.

Bruno Hoffmann. Available in:. (Fragment).

Questions

Question 1 - Underline the verb in the past tense that composes the title:

A woman from the interior of São Paulo created the “Happy Birthday”

Question 2 - The past tense verb, underlined above, indicates:

( ) an action fully completed by the “woman from the interior of São Paulo”.

( ) an action partially completed by the “woman from the interior of São Paulo”.

( ) an action possibly completed by the “woman from the interior of São Paulo”.

Question 3 - In the segment “[…] was composed by a pharmacist from the interior of São Paulo.”, the phrase in the highlighted past tense was used:

( ) in active voice

( ) in passive voice

( ) in reflective voice

Question 4 - In the excerpt “Only she, among five thousand competitors, wrote four different verses […]”, the past tense verb “wrote” expresses:

( ) an action

( ) a state

( ) a way of being

Question 5 - In the passage “It took only five minutes to create the song.”, the subject of the verb in the past tense is:

( ) a noun

( ) an indefinite pronoun

( ) a personal pronoun

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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