Portuguese activity, aimed at 8th grade students, consists of questions about the verb tenses, employed in the construction of the poems the moon in the cinema, by Paulo Leminski and Dream, by Roseana Murray.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
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Read the following poem to answer questions 1 to 4:
The moon went to the movies,
a funny movie was on,
the story of a star
who didn't have a boyfriend.
There wasn't because it was just
a very small star,
of those that, when erased,
no one will say, what a pity!
It was a star alone,
no one looked at her,
and all the light she had
it fit in a window.
the moon was so sad
with that love story,
that even today the moon insists:
– Dawn, please!
Paulo Leminski. Distracted we will win. São Paulo, Brasiliense, 1993.
Question 1 - In the passage “[…] a very small star, those that, when erase, […]”, the highlighted verb indicates a process that:
a) already happened.
b) will happen with certainty.
c) happened in the distant past.
d) is happening.
Question 2 - Remove from the poem the other verb that indicates the same process of "erase":
Question 3 - On the back “no one will say, what a pity!”, the underlined phrase presents the meaning corresponding to the verb:
a) would say
b) will say
c) said
d) said
Question 4 - Identify the tense in which the verb marked in the previous question is found:
Read this poem to answer question 5:
One day the men woke up
and everything was different:
of the atomic weapons there was no sign
and they all spoke the same language,
they spoke poetry.
Who saw the Earth from above
wouldn't even recognize,
were fields and fields of wheat
and hearts of pure honey.
And it was such a joy,
in the newspapers not a single crime,
that counting no one would believe.
Roseana M. Lessons from heaven. In Enchantment words: anthology of Brazilian poets. São Paulo: Modern, 2001.
Question 5 - In “Whoever saw the Earth from above would not even recognize […]”, the use of verbs in the future tense indicates facts:
a) hypothetical.
b) completed.
c) unfinished.
d) predictable.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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