Portuguese Activity: Passive Voice

Portuguese activity, suitable for students in the eighth year of elementary school, addresses the passive voice. When does this verbal voice occur? When the subject is a patient of the action expressed by the verb. How about analyzing the passive voice in the text about the book Eureka! 100 Great Scientific Discoveries of the 20th Century? To do so, answer the proposed questions!

You can download this Portuguese language activity in an editable Word template, ready to print in PDF and also the completed activity.

Download this Portuguese exercise at:

• Word: Portuguese activity: Passive voice – 8th grade – Editable template
• PDF: Portuguese Activity: Passive Voice – Grade 8 – Printable
• Template: Portuguese activity: Passive voice – 8th grade – With answers
• Image: Page 1 

SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

Eureka! 100 Great Scientific Discoveries of the 20th Century

With chapters dedicated to different fields of knowledge - such as medicine, physics, biology, earth sciences and cosmology – the work brings a selection of the main discoveries of the science of the 20th century. Written in plain language by zoologist Rupert Lee, from Queen's College, Oxford, England, the book is based on the articles in which such discoveries were originally described - and the author is careful to cite the sources, giving the reader a chance to consult them. In the pages of the book, for example, the research (by the English ornithologist David Lack) which, in 1947, proved the existence of natural selection by competition, proposed by Charles Darwin almost a century earlier (in the 1850s), and the way German physicist Albert Einstein formulated the famous equation E=mc

^2.

“Ciência Hoje” magazine, April 2007, p.75. Available in: .

Questions

Question 1 - Identify the passage that has a verb in the passive voice:

( ) “[…] a selection of the main discoveries of 20th century science.”

( ) “Written in plain language by zoologist Rupert Lee […]”

( ) “[…] the author is careful to cite the sources […]”

Question 2 - In the excerpt identified above, the verb in the passive voice indicates:

( ) an action.

( ) a state.

( ) a feature.

Question 3 - In the part “[…] where they were originally described such discoveries […]”, the highlighted term modifies the meaning of the verb in the passive voice. Therefore, he is:

( ) an adjective.

( ) an adverb.

( ) a noun.

Question 4 – Underline the liability agent in this text segment:

“[…] the existence of natural selection by competition, proposed by Charles Darwin almost a century earlier […]”

Question 5 - “[…] the German physicist Albert Einstein formulated the famous equation E=mc^2.”. Rewrite this prayer in passive voice:

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

At answers are in the link above the header.

report this ad