Portuguese activity, aimed at 8th grade students, aims to study the past tense imperfect, through text that has as its theme the immigration.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Our family had a quiet routine in Venezuela, in the city of Güigüe. I, an IT technician, had a company that provided digital assistance for people who needed to update their documentation. My husband, an engineer, made budgets in the construction industry. But in 2005, he began receiving threats from companies he worked for. They made undue charges, and when he refused to pay, they began to persecute our family. The situation turned out to be too dangerous. Until, in 2015, we decided to move with our two children to Rio de Janeiro. In the beginning, we got lost and didn't know how to start our lives over. As I am the daughter of Lebanese, we bet on Arab cuisine. And it worked! We take orders and cook for events: I prepare the dishes and my husband takes care of the administrative part. […]
Maria Eliás El Warrak. “Everyone” magazine, Dec/Jan. 2017, p.16.
Question 1 - There is a predominance in the text of sequences:
a) descriptive
b) narratives
c) argumentative
d) expository
Why is there a predominance of identified sequences?
Question 2 - In the passage “Our family had a quiet routine in Venezuela, in the city of Güigüe.”, the use of the verb in the past tense indicates an action:
a) which has already been completed.
b) started in the past and remains in the present.
c) continuous in the past.
d) occurred in the very distant past.
Question 3 - Check the alternative whose highlighted part works as a bet:
a) “I, IT technician, he had a company that provided […] ”
b) “But, in 2005, he started getting threats from companies he worked for.”
ç) "At the beginning, we got lost and didn't know how to start our lives over.”
d) "As I am the daughter of Lebanese, we bet on Arab cuisine.”
Question 4 – Justify the use of the colon in the last sentence of the text:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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