Portuguese activity, aimed at eighth grade students, explores the indicative mode. Would you be able to say what a verb in the indicative expresses? A certainty, a hypothesis, a wish or an order? Are you in doubt? Then, answer the various questions proposed based on the text about the Dorina Nowill! Discover the story of this admirable teacher!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
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The name may even be unknown, but this Brazilian's work is there to help a lot of people. When she was just 17 years old, Dorina became blind for reasons no doctor could discover. At that age, she was already a teacher, and decided not to let her blindness affect what she most enjoyed doing: teaching. He used the disability as an incentive to get other people who couldn't see to keep learning.
In 1946, with the help of some friends, Dorina created the Foundation for the Blind Book in Brazil, in São Paulo (which many years later was named Fundação Dorina Nowill Para Cegos). This foundation, together with the Benjamin Constant Institute, in Rio de Janeiro, ______ was the first in the country to produce books in Braille (a form of communication made by touch, which allows the blind to read and write) and to distribute these free of charge. books. In addition, Dorina was always concerned with developing more and more modern ways to facilitate the access of blind people to all kinds of knowledge.
Dorina lived long enough to make sure her name and her work are not forgotten. She left a beautiful example of life and a Foundation that will continue to work to improve the lives of blind people across the country.
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Question 1 - Carefully review the sentences. Then, mark the one in which the underlined verb was used in indicative mode:
a) “[…] do not let blindness affect what she most liked to do […] ”
b) “[…] other people who could not see continue”
c) “[…] Dorina created the Foundation for the Blind Book in Brazil […]"
d) “[…] to make your name and your work not be”
Question 2 - The verb in the indicative, present in the sentence above, expresses:
a) a certainty
b) a hypothesis
c) a wish
d) an order
Question 3 – In the segment "Used disability as an incentive to make other people […]”, the verb in the underlined indicative points to a fact:
a) unfinished
b) predictable
c) completed
d) in realization
Question 4 - The space, marked in the text, must be filled with the verb “to be” in the perfect past tense of the indicative mood. Therefore, the sentence is registered as correct:
a) “[…] it was the first in the country to produce books in Braille […]”
b) “[…] it was the first in the country to produce books in Braille […]”
c) “[…] she was the first in the country to produce books in Braille […]”
d) “[…] it would be the first in the country to produce books in Braille […]”
Question 5 - In “In addition, Dorina was always worried […]”, the verb in the indicative “was” is:
a) connection
b) intransitive
c) direct transitive
d) indirect transitive
Question 6 – The subject of the verb in the highlighted indicative appears hidden in the sentence:
a) “The name he can until being unknown […]"
b) "At this age, she already was teacher […]"
c) "Dorina lived enough time to do […]"
d) "Left a beautiful example of life […]"
Question 7 – The subject of the verb, which makes up the sentence above, can be identified by its ending and its context. Point it out:
A.
Question 8 – In the passage “[…] a Foundation that Will continue working […]”, the phrase in the highlighted indicative has the meaning corresponding to the verb:
a) continue
b) will continue
c) would continue
d) will continue
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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