Portuguese activity, recommended for 9th grade students, proposes the study of gerund, through a parable. The activity consists of multiple choice questions.
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Buddha expressed this parable in a sutra:
A man who was going to cross a field came across a tiger. He fled, with the tiger always chasing him. Arriving at a precipice, he grabbed the root of a wild vine and, passing the edge of the precipice, he hung on to it. Above him, the tiger smelled him. Trembling, the man looked down to where, deep inside, another tiger waited for him to fall to devour him. Only the vine sustained him.
Two rats, one white and one black, began, fiber by fiber, to gnaw at the root of the vine. The man saw an appetizing strawberry next to him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted!
Nycogen Senzaki and Paul Reps. 101 Zen Stories. Lisbon: Editorial Presence, 1987.
Question 1 - There is a predominance in the text of sequences:
a) descriptive
b) narratives
c) argumentative
d) expository
Question 2 - In all alternatives, the highlighted pronoun takes up "a man", except in:
a) “Above him, the tiger smelled-O.”
b) “[…] another tiger expected that he fell to devour it."
c) "The man saw an appetizing strawberry nearby from him.”
d) "How sweet the your flavor!"
Question 3 - In “Tremendous, the man looked down where […]”, the comma indicates:
a) an inversion in the order of ending of the sentence.
b) an omission of a clause.
c) an explanation insert.
d) an enumeration of elements.
Question 4 – In all segments, the use of form in the gerund is registered, except in:
a) “Arriving at a precipice […]”
b) “[…] and, passing the edge of the precipice, […]”
c) "Two rats, one white and one black, started fiber by fiber […]"
d) "Grasping the vine with one hand […]"
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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