Portuguese Activity: Past Imperfect

Portuguese activity, aimed at 8th grade students, aims to study the past tense imperfect, through the text that asks Who invented the calculator?

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Who invented the calculator?

The first calculating machine was the abacus, which appeared in Mesopotamia (region of present-day Iraq) around the year 3,500 BC. This instrument still exists today: it is a frame with sticks in the vertical direction; the bats have tokens or accounts used to calculate. The first abacuses were drawn on the floor, but later they were built with wood or stone. The first mechanical calculator was created in 1623, by the German Wilhelm Schickard. She performed addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division operations with six-digit numbers, indicating the result by means of a ringing bell. And the first electronic calculator, similar to the ones we use today, was produced by the Casio company in 1957.

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Questions

Question 1 - It can be said that the abacus:

a) performed the four operations with numbers from their digits.

b) still exists today, despite the evolution of the calculator.

c) is similar to the calculator we use today.

d) was created by the German Wilhelm Schickard.

Question 2 - The information enclosed in parentheses consists of:

a) comparison

b) illustration

c) citation

d) explanation

Question 3 - In the excerpt “She did sum operations […]”, the use of the verb in the past tense indicates an action:

a) continuous in the past.

b) completed in the recent past.

c) initiated in the past and permanent in the present.

d) situated in a very distant past.

Question 4 - In the passage “The first abacuses were drawn on the ground, but, then, they started to be built with wood or stone.”, the highlighted term establishes the reaction of:

a) addition

b) conclusion

c) grant

d) opposition

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

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