Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, about the verbs in past tense. Let's analyze the role they play in the communicative context? To do so, answer the questions that explore this tense in the text about Toni Morrison! Did you know that she “was the first black woman to win a Nobel Prize for literature”? Discover the story of this great American writer!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Toni Morrison was the first black woman to win a Nobel Prize for literature. The American writer wrote about themes such as racism in the United States and the condition of the black community, especially about women. Despite her family's financial difficulties, Morrison was a great reader as a child. Some of her favorite authors were Jane Austen and Leo Tolstoy. At home, her father used to tell popular stories from the black community – and this way of telling stories would influence the way he wrote his books.
The first of them was “The Bluest Eye” (1970), which tells the story of a black girl who dreamed of having blue eyes. The book addresses difficult issues, such as dissatisfaction with one's own image, school dropout and teenage pregnancy. Toni Morrison used to say that she wrote “The Bluest Eye” because the book she wanted to read didn't exist yet. The writer got up at dawn, before her two young children woke up, to write.
Years later, one of her children, painter, musician and author Slade Morrison, signed her two children's books with Toni Morrison: "What do you say, Louise?" and “Who wins?”.
Toni Morrison wrote 11 novels, in addition to essays and children's texts. She died on August 5, 2019, aged 88.
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Question 1 - The highlighted verb is in the past tense imperfect in the excerpt:
( ) “The American writer wrote on topics such as racism […]"
( ) “Some of your favorite authors they were Jane Austen and Leo Tolstoy.”
( ) “[…] and this way of telling stories would influence the way of writing her books.
Question 2 - In the excerpt mentioned above, the highlighted verb was used in the past tense imperfect to indicate a fact:
( ) continuous in the past.
( ) hypothetical in the past.
( ) closed in the past.
Question 3 - Reread this period of the text:
"The first one was 'The Bluest Eye' (1970), which tells the story of a black girl who dreamed of having blue eyes."
In this period of the text, there is a verb in the past tense imperfect. Point it out:
( ) "was".
( ) "account".
( ) “dreamed”.
Question 4 – Underline the subject of the verb in the past tense “wanted”:
“[…] the book she wanted to read […]”
The underlined subject above:
( ) resumes Toni Morrison.
( ) features Toni Morrison.
( ) features Toni Morrison.
Question 5 - In the sentence “[…] before the two small children woke up […]”, the verb in the past tense is in the mood:
( ) indicative.
( ) subjunctive.
( ) imperative.
Question 6 – In the segment “The writer got up at dawn […]”, the verb in the past tense is in the voice:
( ) active.
( ) passive.
( ) reflective.
Question 7 – In "Years later, one of his sons, the painter, musician and author Slade Morrison, signed […] ”, the underlined expression modifies the meaning of the verb in the past tense, expressing:
( ) place.
( ) mode.
( ) time.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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