Portuguese activity, recommended to students in the eighth year of elementary school, about the verbs in the present tense. Let's analyze them in the text “Greg – The boy who used to live on a train” addresses life after the parents' separation? So, answer the questions proposed below!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
With illustrations by Odilon Moraes, the book “Greg – The boy who lived on a train” (Editora Tigrito), by writer and psychologist Ana Luiza Badaró, talks about the new family configurations and how children react to their parents' new relationships after the separation.
The reader will follow the story of a boy who lives on a train with his parents. One day, they decide not to live in the same car anymore and the train enters a long, dark tunnel. Some time later, new people arrive on the train and go to live in other cars. Greg likes them and gets used to them, but eventually they also get off the train and the tunnel beyond ______ even longer and darker.
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Question 1 - In the first paragraph of the text, the verb in the present tense "speech" refers to the subject:
( ) “Odilon Moraes”.
( ) “the book ‘Greg – The boy who lived on a train”.
( ) “the writer and psychologist Ana Luiza Badaró”.
Question 2 - In the passage "One day, they decide not to live anymore [...]”, the underlined expression modifies the meaning of the verb in the present tense “resolve”, indicating:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Question 3 - In “Some time later, new people arrive on the train […]”, the present tense verb demanded a complement with a preposition. Therefore, he is:
( ) intransitive.
( ) direct transitive.
( ) indirect transitive.
Question 4 – Highlight the present tense verbs in this text fragment:
“Greg likes and gets used to them, but eventually they also get off the train […]”
Question 5 - In the passage “[…] the tunnel to follow ______ is even longer and darker.”, the space must be filled with the verb “to be” in the present tense. Point it out:
( ) “é”.
( ) "they are".
( ) "be".
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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