Portuguese activity, aimed at 9th grade students, suggests the study of more-than-perfect past tense, taking as a reference text written by Monteiro Lobato.
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Read this fragment written by Monteiro Lobato:
She lay on her back for a while, arms outstretched, not thinking about anything. Rest first; then the rest. She looked up at the keys on the wall. She didn't see any key on the wall. “What is this story? Did the keys evaporate?” Steadying her eyes, she checked that it wasn't. The keys were there, but at a much higher point. The wall had grown tremendously. There seemed to be no end. Everything had increased in a prodigious way. And on the ground she saw something new, which didn't exist before; a yellow paper-carpeted pedestal.
the size key. São Paulo: Círculo do Livro, 1989.
Question 1 - Justify the use of quotation marks in the fragment:
Question 2 - In the passage “The keys were there, but at a much higher point.”, the underlined conjunction establishes a relationship between the clauses:
the condition
b) place
c) opposition
d) conclusion
Question 3 - The use of the more-than-perfect past tense is registered in the following excerpt:
a) “she lay on her back for some time […]”
b) "He looked up at the keys on the wall."
c) “Everything will increase in a prodigious way.”
d) “[…] that did not exist before […]”
Question 4 – "The wall will grow tremendously.”. The term underlined could be replaced by:
a) extremely
b) sporadically
c) recklessly
d) gently
Question 5 - In “And on the ground he saw a new thing that didn't exist before; a pedestal carpeted in yellow paper.”, the semicolon introduces:
a) an enumeration
b) a revelation
c) an observation
d) a hypothesis
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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