Portuguese Activity: Adverbial tense adjuncts

Portuguese activity, aimed at eighth grade students, about the adverbial time adjuncts. These are those expressions that indicate time in sentences! The proposed questions are based on the text mad cow disease. Are we going to know the origin of this disease?

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Adverbial time adjuncts

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mad cow disease

Mad cow disease came back to scare the world last week. But, this has nothing to do with cows going crazy around the farms of the planet, ok? Mad cow disease is a disease that affects not only cows, but oxen and sheep as well. In the 90s, the evil hit many animals in Europe. They may have got sick from the feed they ate. Farmers had to kill the animals and their meat could not be sold to prevent people from getting sick too. _____________ it was believed that people got sick from eating the meat of sick animals. But today it is known that evil can also pass from one person to another.

Mad cow's EVIL. "The globe". Rio de Janeiro, 2 Oct. 2004. Globe.

Questions 

Question 1 - The adverbial tense “In the 90s” points to a fact. Identify it:

( ) “Mad cow disease has frightened the world again […]”

( ) “[…] mad cow disease has affected many animals in Europe.”

( ) “[…] mad cow disease can also pass from one person to another.”

Question 2 - Look carefully at the first sentence of the text. Then rewrite it by passing the adjectival tense to the beginning of the sentence:

A.

Question 3 - Which adverbial tense fills the gap indicated in the text? Tick ​​it:

( ) "Yesterday"

( ) "Never"

( ) "Before"

Question 4 – The adverbial adjunct, mentioned in the previous question, modifies the meaning of the verb “believed”. The aforementioned verb expresses a fact:

( ) fully closed.

( ) continuous in the past.

( ) hypothetical in the past.

Question 5 - In the phrase "But today it is known that evil can also pass from one person to another.", the adverbial tense "today" modifies the meaning of the verb:

( ) "You know"

( ) "he can"

( ) "pass"

Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

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