Portuguese Activity: Inflections of the verb to be

Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, proposes the study of inflections of the verb "to be". Let's learn? The questions are based on the text a day at the airport.

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

Read:

a day at the airport

When I was a child, I was crazy to visit an airport. Television was still a novelty and the planes I had seen for the first time were on TV screens. At that time, I kept thinking like this: are these images real? Could it be that it's not a lie, someone's invention, a trick, I don't know...

One day, out of the blue, my family decided to pay a visit. It was just a joy, I couldn't wait to get there and see if all that was true. At that time, we could get close to the runway, as there was a kind of "observation post" that was close to the runway […]

Wants to know? It was nice to find out that the planes on the screen were real…

Deborah of Angelo; Eliane Aguiar. “Circuit Magazine”, no. 154, Oct. 2012.

Questions

Question 1 - Underline the inflections of the verb “to be” that make up these passages of the text:

a) "When I was a child, I was crazy to visit an airport."

b) “[…] the planes I had seen for the first time were on TV screens.”

c) “[…] are these images real?”

d) “Is it not a lie, someone's invention […]”

Question 2 - Relate the underlined verbs above to the tenses in which they were inflected:

( ) gift

( ) future of the present

( ) past tense

( ) past tense

Question 3 - In the excerpt “[…] were real…”, the verb “were” has as subject:

A:

Question 4 – In the passage “[…] I couldn't wait to arrive and see if all that was truth.”, the highlighted verb introduces:

a) an adverbial adjunct

b) a predicative of the subject

c) an adjunct

d) a bet

Question 5 - Rewrite the prayer “It was a joy only […]”, inflecting the verb “to be” in the past tense more-than-perfect:

A:

By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

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