Portuguese activity, aimed at ninth grade students, explores the past tense verbs. Are we going to identify them and understand the role they play? So, answer the challenging text-based questions the master chef, written by Zelia Gattai!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Dona Angelina had pulled my ears, soaped me when we said goodbye:
– See, that's all? With the stubbornness of not wanting to speak Italian at home, now how are you going to manage when you arrive in Italy? He doesn't know how to speak Italian, he'll look like a beast… what a beautiful figure!
My parents at home, among them, spoke Italian, but we children always answered in Portuguese, avoiding using their language, although we understood it as well as ours.
If Dona Angelina saw me now, in long chats in Italian with Pipo, the ship's old chef – that she didn't know a single word of Portuguese – she certainly wouldn't believe her ears, if would amaze. In time of need, I found no difficulty in expressing myself in the familiar language. […] It was the doctor who introduced me to Pipo, recommending me to the master chef. I __________ in his graces and he opened the kitchen doors for me, forbidden to people outside the service. When I arrived in search of fresh fruit juices or soup for my son, I found everything ready and waiting for me. In the ship's enormous kitchen, Chef Pipo, in an impeccable white jacket, checkered pants, dominated a sea of stoves and pans and a whole legion of underlings, who attended to him on time. The Chef had got his profession right, he liked to eat, he was proud of his culinary knowledge, he gave me recipes and he was happy with the praise I paid to his delicacies.
GATTAI, Zelia. The master chef. In: Lady owner of the ball. 3. ed. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 1984. P. 16-17. (Fragment).
Question 1 - Identify the passage in which the highlighted verb or phrase is in the past tense:
a) “Mrs. Angelina pullmy ears […]"
B) "- it is seeing, only?”
c) "No You know Speak Italian […]"
d) “[…] will stay looking like a beast…”
Question 2 - "My parents at home, among them, spoke Italian, but we, the children, we answered always in Portuguese […]”. Regarding the verbs in the past tense underlined in this segment, it is stated that:
I. Both indicate actions that were common in the narrator's family home.
II. The first is in indicative mode and the second is in subjunctive mode.
III. Both were inflected in the past tense imperfect.
What is stated in:
there
b) I and II
c) I and III
d) II and III
Question 3 - In the sentence “If Dona Angelina saw me now, in long conversations in Italian with Pipo […]”, the verb in the past tense “visse” was used in the subjunctive mode because it expresses:
a) a certainty
b) an advice
c) an assumption
d) an order
Question 4 – The space indicated in the sentence “I _______ in your graces […]” must be filled with the perfect past tense of the verb “to fall”. Point it out:
a) "would fall"
b) "I fell"
c) "fall"
d) "fall"
Question 5 - Underline the verbs that make up the sentences. Then identify the time in the past tense in which they were inflected, numbering as indicated:
(1) Past perfect tense
(2) Past tense imperfect
(3) Past tense more-than-perfect
( ) “[…] the doctor who introduced me to Pipo […]”
( ) “[…] dominated a sea of stoves and pans and a whole legion of underlings […]”
( ) “The Chief had got the profession right […]
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
At answers are in the link above the header.
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