Portuguese activity, aimed at 8th grade students, aims to study verbs in the past time, through the text the donkey and the salt load.
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A salt-laden ass was crossing a river. One misstep and here he is in the water. The salt then melted and the ass rose lighter. He was all happy. A little later, being loaded with sponge on the banks of the same river, he thought that if he fell again he would be lighter and he fell on purpose in the waters. What happened? The sponges were soaked and, unable to rise, the ass drowned.
Some people are victims of their own tricks.
Aesop. Fables. Porto Alegre: L&M Pocket, 1997, p. 139-140.
Question 1 - In the excerpt “A donkey loaded with salt crossed a river.”, the highlighted verb indicates a fact:
a) that could happen.
b) in past performance.
c) fully completed.
d) what is happening.
Question 2 - In “[…] he thought that if he fell again would stay lighter and fell on purpose in the waters.”, is the underlined verb in tense?
a) future of past tense
b) past tense
c) more-than-perfect past tense
d) past tense
Question 3 – In all alternatives, the underlined verb is in the past tense, except in:
a) “The salt then melted and the ass got up lighter."
B) "Stayed all happy.”
c) “[…] and it fell on purpose in the waters.”
d) “Some people they are victims of their own wiles.”
Question 4 - Identify, among the past tense verbs in the previous question, the one that indicates a state of the ass:
Question 5 - “[…] the ass drowned.”. Rewrite this sentence, passing the verb into the more-than-perfect past tense:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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