Portuguese activity, aimed at 8th grade students, proposes the study of impersonal verb, used in the text that composes the Calendar (2017) of the NGO “Médicos Sem Fronteiras”.
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Read this text written by a refugee from Syria:
We fled the war in our country and spent some time in Lebanon. We want to go to Germany because we have family there. We took a small boat from Turkey to Greece. The crossing was very dangerous: the boat was full and there were waves; we were very scared. We've been on the road for days, and Wail is crying most of the time. I'm so tired! He is sick, does not eat and coughs. I want a doctor to examine him, so I came to the clinic of the NGO “Doctors Without Borders” (MSF) while we wait to cross the border into Croatia.
Hala. “Doctors Without Borders” Calendar – 2017.
Question 1 - "I want a doctor to examine him, so I came to the MSF clinic."
a) Does the pronoun “o” refer to whom?
b) Why does the person referred to in the text need to be examined?
c) The term "for this reason" establishes a relationship of:
Question 2 - In "[…] why we have family there.”, the underlined word could be replaced by:
a) therefore
b) since
c) because
d) however
Question 3 - In the excerpt “[…] While we wait to cross the border into Croatia.”, the highlighted term indicates the idea of:
a) mode
b) place
c) condition
d) time
Question 4 – “[…] the boat was full and there were waves; we were very scared.”. Why was the verb “had” used in the singular?
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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