Portuguese activity, focused on eighth grade students, aims at learning the past tense. How about analyzing various verbs in this tense, in order to understand the role they play in the communicative context? To do this, answer the questions that refer to the text about Ziraldo! In it, the author of “O Menino Maluquinho” argues that child likes to be taken seriously!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
As a child, the son of Zizinha and Geraldo loved the stories of Gulliver, Alice in Wonderland and the stories of the brothers Grimm read by his mother. Until a Superman comic book fell into his hands, at a time when comics were considered enemies of reading. “There I understood my future”, says one of the greatest children's writers in the country.
Literature for children was almost a fluke, but he was prepared: he knows how to face the little ones as an equal. “To talk to them, you don't have to use a nickname or be jeep-ha-ha. Children like to be taken seriously”, he teaches. The theory worked.
Known for his foundation and engagement in Pasquim during the dictatorship, the Minas Gerais native from Caratinga changed the focus of his professional life after the success of O Menino Maluquinho, in 1980. At 80 years old, completed on October 24th (appropriately, children's month), he accumulates about 150 published works. He has sold approximately eight million books worldwide, 350,000 abroad alone. Not to mention his films, plays and series based on his stories. He even became a program presenter, with ABZ do Ziraldo, which airs on TV Brasil. The boy wonder Robin fan, owner of a collection of 300 vests, “once upon a time” and profound connoisseur of Zizinha's alphabetical code continues to think that a crazy child becomes an adult cool. And he continues to insist on the equation that guides him: the more the little ones like to read, the better the country will be.
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Question 1 - Identify with a dash the verb in the past tense that makes up this excerpt:
“When he was little, the son of Zizinha and Geraldo loved Gulliver's stories, Alice […]”
Question 2 - The verb, identified in the previous question, expresses:
( ) a common occurrence in Ziraldo's childhood.
( ) a doubtful fact in Ziraldo's childhood.
( ) a passing event in Ziraldo's childhood.
Question 3 - In the passage “Until a Superman comic book fell into his hands […]”, the verb in the past tense “fell” was used in the indicative way to express:
( ) a wish
( ) a certainty
( ) an assumption
Question 4 – The prayer with the verb in the past tense “I understood” was placed in quotation marks because:
( ) is a speech by someone else.
( ) is an excerpt written in informal language.
( ) is an opinion of whoever wrote the above text.
Question 5 - In the period “The theory worked.”, the term “right” modifies the meaning of the verb in the past tense “it worked”. Therefore, "right" is:
( ) an adjective
( ) a pronoun
( ) an adverb
Question 6 – In the sentence “[…] the miner from Caratinga changed the focus of his professional life […]”, the past tense verb “changed” indicates:
( ) an action by the miner from Caratinga.
( ) a mining state of Caratinga.
( ) an attribute of the miner from Caratinga.
Question 7 – In the segment “Sold approximately eight million books worldwide […]”, the subject of the verb in the past tense is:
( ) hidden
( ) simple
( ) undetermined
Question 8 – Note the verb in the past tense underlined below:
"Even a show host he turned […]”
The aforementioned verb in the past tense could be replaced by:
( ) adapted
( ) has became
( ) influenced
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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