Portuguese activity, aimed at 9th grade students, aims to study the passive voice, through the text “Here comes the postman".
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Read the following text to answer questions 1 to 4:
The first communications known to the world were delivered by messengers who memorized the text of the letter and ran on foot for miles to recite it to the recipient.
In Brazil, the first letter-delivery received the name of tropeiro. Then came the courier, the mail carrier, the postal service inspector, and the postman.
Messenger Paulo Bregaro is considered the first Brazilian postman. It was he who delivered, on September 7, 1822, on the banks of the Ipiranga stream, the correspondence of the Empress Leopoldina to Dom Pedro I.
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question 1 – The subject of the text is:
a) the first communications that the world is aware of.
b) Empress Leopoldina's correspondence to Dom Pedro I.
c) the origin of the postman's profession.
d) the life of the messenger Paulo Bregaro.
Question 2 - Register the use of passive voice in the sentence:
a) "The first communications known to the world were delivered by messengers [...]"
b) "In Brazil, the first deliveryman of letters received the name of tropeiro."
c) “Then came the courier, the mail carrier, the postal service inspector […]”
d) “The messenger Paulo Bregaro is considered the first Brazilian postman.”
Question 3 - Move the sentence marked in the previous question to active voice:
Question 4 – “[…] messengers who memorized the text of the letter […]”. Pass this prayer into the passive voice:
Question 5 - Rewrite the following sentences, changing from active to passive voice:
a) The residents invaded the place.
b) Teachers scolded the students.
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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