Portuguese Activity: Past Perfect and Imperfect

Portuguese activity, suitable for 9th grade students, proposes the study of past tense perfect and past tense imperfect, taking as a reference, a fragment of the novel mine orange lime, written by José Mauro de Vasconcelos.

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read this excerpt from the novel My orange tree file:

She spoke in a tired, tired voice. And I was so sorry for her. Mom was born working. From the age of six, when they built the Factory, they put it to work. Mom was sitting right on top of a table and she had to keep cleaning and drying irons. She was so small that she used to wet herself on the table because she couldn't go down alone… That's why she never went to school, nor did she learn to read. When I heard this story of hers, I was so sad that I promised that, when I was a poet and a wise man, I would read my poems to her...

José Mauro de Vasconcelos. mine orange lime. São Paulo: Improvements, 2004.

Question 1 - In the "Is it over there she spoke in a tired, tired voice. And I was very sorry her.”, the underlined pronouns refer to who?

Question 2 - In “[…] and she had to stay cleaning […]”, the highlighted verb phrase indicates:

a) desire

b) hypothesis

c) obligation

d) promise

Question 3 - In the passage “She spoke with a tired, tired voice.”, the verb in the past tense signals an action:

a) occurred in the remote past.

b) already completed.

c) completed in the recent past.

d) habitual in the past.

Question 4 – The use of the perfect past tense is registered in the following excerpt:

a) “Since the age of six, when they made the Factory […]”

b) “Mom was sitting right on top of a table […]”

c) “[…] it was wet on the table […]”

d) “[…] I was going to read my poems to her…”

Question 5 - “[…] she never went to school, nor learned to read.", the term underlined expresses:

a) addition

b) opposition

c) conclusion

d) condition

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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