Portuguese activity, recommended to eighth grade students, aims to study the indicative mode. The various questions explore this verbal mode, through the interesting text Feathers, what do I want you for?
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He was funny and cheeky. To any insult, he responded in kind. If he got angry, he wouldn't think twice and attack the aggressor. However, all it took was a pat on the head and it would soon melt. That was Loro, my grandmother Dedé's green parrot. It was enough for him to see us that he would soon call us by name – and look, there were not few of us who circulated around the house!
Loro was both capable of repeating words and phrases, and was also able to carry on small conversations: “OaOaoa….This is Looorooo. Looooorooo gives the foot. Cuddle!” he would say, to everyone's amazement. However, her biggest relationship was with grandma Dedé, whom he always called her: "Come Dedé, come here Dedé!"
The parrot had green feathers, with yellowish and reddish plumes. When their feathers fell, they were the object of everyone's desire, as they made incredible bookmarks.
In fact, not only in Loro, but in all birds, feathers are the feature that most attracts our attention. Long or short, stiff or feathery, they are always of varied and vibrant colors, with many purposes. Depending on the shape of the feathers, they can be used to fly, to protect against the cold or even to attract a partner at the time of mating.
But you, who know that this column is about prehistory, must be wondering: can feathers be preserved as fossils?
Yea! Although it is difficult to find a complete fossil bird, the feathers are found preserved in rocks that are sometimes millions of years old. Some of the most famous come from the Northeast of Brazil, precisely from the state of Ceará.
In rocks from the Araripe sedimentary basin, which are 100 million years old, there are both bird fossils and isolated feathers. The preservation of these fossils allows, in some cases, to see even the old color patterns, which is a real rarity.
Now beware: not every single feather fossil came from birds! Many dinosaurs also had their bodies covered with plumage. These were dinobirds, neither dinosaur nor birds, but a fossil group that was quite abundant in the Mesozoic era (approximately between 250 and 65 million years ago).
I like to think that Loro would love to meet them – unfortunately, he ran away before I became a scientist, flying after a charming parrot that appeared on top of a mango tree.
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Question 1 - In the part “He was funny and cheeky.”, the verb in the indicative “was” points to:
a) characteristics that were permanent in Loro.
b) features that were apparent in Loro.
c) characteristics that were transitory in Loro.
d) features that were mutative in Loro.
Question 2 - In the segment "Any insult, I responded in kind.", the verb in the indicative mode expresses a fact:
a) under execution
b) hypothetical
c) habitual in the past
d) completed
Question 3 - In all passages, the presence of the indicative mode is registered, except in:
a) “Loro was able to repeat words and phrases so much […]”
b) “[…] “Come Dedé, come here Dedé!”
c) "Some of the most famous come from the Northeast of Brazil, precisely from the state of Ceará."
d) “[…] that appeared on top of a mango tree.”
Question 4 – In the excerpt “OaOaoa….Here is Looorooo. Looooorooo gives the foot. Faz cafuné!”, the verb “to do” was inflected in the indicative mode. However, it plays an imperative role. Thus, it can be concluded that the verb "do" was used in language:
a) formal
b) regional
c) technique
d) informal
Question 5 - In “[…] unfortunately, he ran away before I became a scientist […]”, the verb in the underlined indicative expresses the notion of:
a) desire
b) order
c) hypothesis
d) certainty
Question 6 – “Now beware: not every single feather fossil came from birds!”. Identify the verb in the indicative that makes up this part of the text and the tense in which it was used:
A:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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