Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth grade of elementary school, explores the verbs in past tense. What do these verbs express in the communicative context? Let's learn? To do so, answer the questions that refer to the text on the origin of the bath.
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Europeans, in the middle of the 19th century, fled from water as if it were a plague. Literally. Because hot water dilates the pores, European doctors believed that bathing facilitated the entry of germs. In other words, escaping from the bathtubs was recommended as a hygiene measure. Another belief was that water softened the organism and impeded growth. Thus, children were often prevented from entering the bath until a certain age. But it's no use using these excuses to evade your mother's screams by sending you into the shower. Today, we know that these beliefs have no logic. In fact, the equation works the other way around: bathing helps prevent illness.
Barbara Soalheiro. “As we would do without…”. São Paulo: Panda Books, 2006. p.100-101. (Fragment).
Question 1 - Identify the passage that contains a verb in the past tense:
( ) "In other words, running away from the bathtubs was recommended as a hygiene measure."
( ) “But it's no use using these excuses to evade your mother's screams […]”
( ) "In fact, the equation works in reverse: baths help to prevent diseases."
Question 2 - In “The Europeans, in the middle of the 19th century, fled from the water as if it were a pest.”, the underlined expression modifies the meaning of a verb in the past tense, indicating:
( ) place.
( ) cause.
( ) time.
Question 3 - In the passage “[…] European doctors believed that bathing facilitated the entry of germs.”, the verbs in the past tense were inflected:
( ) in the 1st person plural.
( ) in the 2nd person plural.
( ) in the 3rd person plural.
Question 4 – Underline verbs in the past tense in this segment of the text:
"Another belief was that water softened the organism and impeded growth."
Question 5 - It can be concluded that the verbs in the past tense express:
( ) continuous facts in the past.
( ) sporadic facts in the past.
( ) facts fully concluded in the past.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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