Portuguese Activity: Past Imperfect

Portuguese activity, aimed at 9th grade students, proposes the study of past tense imperfect, through text, which tells us curiosities related to the history of Geometry. The activity consists of multiple choice questions.

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PROF: CLASS:

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Imperfect past tense

Read:

Around 500 BC a., the first universities were founded in Greece. Thales and his disciple Pythagoras collected all the knowledge of Egypt, Etruria, Babylon, and even India, to develop and apply them to mathematics, navigation and religion. Curiosity grew and books on geometry were much sought after. A compass soon replaced the string and stake for tracing circles, and the new instrument was incorporated into the geometers' arsenal. Knowledge of the Universe increased rapidly and the Pythagorean school even claimed that the Earth was spherical rather than flat. New geometric constructions appeared, and their areas and perimeters were now easy to calculate. […]

encyclopedic dictionary to meet. São Paulo: Abril Cultural, 2003.

Questions

Question 1 - In the excerpt "Around 500 BC Ç., the first universities were founded in Greece.”, the underlined part works syntactically as:

a) adverbial adjunct

b) nominal complement

c) prepositional phrase

d) adnominal deputy

Question 2 - In “Thales and his disciple Pythagoras collected all the knowledge of Egypt, Etruria, Babylon […]”, the highlighted term could be replaced by:

a) questioned

b) produced

c) reviewed

d) gathered

Question 3 - In the part “A bar soon replaced the string and the stake to draw circles […]”, the underlined conjunction establishes a relationship of:

a) opposition

b) conclusion

c) continuity

d) explanation

Question 4 – In the part “The knowledge of the Universe increased with speed and the Pythagorean school […]”, the verb in the past tense indicates an action:

a) completed in the recent past.

b) habitual in the past.

c) occurred in a remote past.

d) already completed.

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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