Portuguese activity, aimed at 8th grade students, aims to study the subjunctive mode. The various questions that make up the activity are based on the text the frog and the scorpion.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Once, a scorpion approached a frog that was on the edge of a river.
The scorpion came to make a request:
"Sapinho, could you carry me to the other side of this wide river?"
The frog replied: “Only if I were a fool! You're going to sting me, I'm paralyzed and I'm going to sink.”
Said the scorpion: “This is ridiculous! If I stung him, we would both sink."
Trusting the scorpion's logic, the frog nodded and carried the scorpion on its back as it swam across the river.
In the middle of the river, the scorpion dug its stinger into the frog.
Struck by the poison, and already beginning to sink, the frog turned to the scorpion and asked, “Why? Because?"
And the scorpion replied, "Because I'm a scorpion and that's my nature." "And I can't change it."
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Question 1 - The text read is of the genre:
a) short story
b) news
c) chronic
d) fable
Question 2 - Predominates in the text:
a) the description of the characters.
b) the narration of a story.
c) description of the scenario where the episode takes place.
d) the exposition of a thought about nature.
Question 3 - In the part “And I can't change-there.”, the highlighted term resumes:
question 4 – The purpose of the text is:
a) make people reflect.
b) give information.
c) entertain readers.
d) make a criticism.
Question 5 - The subjunctive mode appears in the sentence:
a) "Once, a scorpion approached a frog that was on the edge of a river."
b) "Sapinho, could you carry me to the other side of this wide river?"
c) "Only if I were a fool!"
d) "And I can't change it."
Question 6 – Identify the other passage in the text in which the subjunctive mode is present:
Question 7 – The subjunctive mode expresses in the text:
a) an order
b) a certainty
c) a hypothesis
d) a suggestion
Question 8 – The subjunctive mode is used in:
a) 1st person singular
b) 2nd person singular
c) 3rd person singular
d) 1st person plural
Question 9 – The prayer is rewritten “[…] the scorpion stuck its stinger in the frog.” in subjunctive mode in:
a) […] the scorpion would sting its stinger into the frog.
b) […] if the scorpion stuck its stinger in the frog.
c) […] nail, scorpion, your stinger in the toad.
d) […] the scorpion stuck its stinger in the frog.
Question 10 – Justify the use of quotation marks in the text read:
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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