Portuguese activity, suitable for seventh-year students, addresses the verbs in the present tense. How about studying the verbs in this tense? To do this, answer the various questions based on the text that tells us about the book trochoscope, illustrated by Bernardo Carvalho! Trocoscope is a fabulous machine to reinvent the world, to shuffle the pieces and rearrange them, showing everything with new and unexpected arrangements. Want to know more about this curious book? So, read the text and then be sure to study the verbs in the present tense!
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There are books that don't need words to be really cool. They also don't need to have easy-to-recognize illustrations to be very interesting. trochoscope and so. Illustrated by Bernardo Carvalho, he proposes a simple idea: a drawing made with 142 colored pieces, between triangles, circles, rectangles, squares… On each page, a piece is removed and placed in the white space, to side. Little by little, what had nothing starts to form something. And what had everything changes its face, transforming itself into other forms until it completely dissolves. And tell a new story.
You have to look hard to make sense of it all. Early on, if you look at it, you'll see that the illustration had factories, carts, chimneys, smoke, fire, and even the sign of radioactivity. Then, each element goes out and combines in another way. It's nice to spend time looking where he was and where he ended up. Until, when turning pages, an alligator and some flowers appear beside it. Then a horse and a purple dragonfly appear. Then an elephant and a rhinoceros. If you look closely, you will see birds, insects. It's the miracle of imagination running through this brilliant idea by Bernardo. As the book itself says: “Trocoscope is a fabulous machine to reinvent the world, to shuffle the pieces and rearrange them, showing everything with new and unexpected arrangements”.
And you know whats is most cool? That Bernardo ends up giving us an amazing idea: just take colored paper, cut out various shapes on them and, after everything is ready, start creating illustrations with them. Afterwards, take the pieces out little by little and create others. You can even play guessing games with a friend: for each piece, a guess! Isn't that cool?
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Question 1 - In the excerpt “They also don't need to have easy-to-recognize illustrations to be very interesting.”, the verb in the present tense “need” refers to:
( ) to books.
( ) the words.
( ) to the illustrations.
Question 2 - The verb in the present tense “need” makes up a part of the text, in which the author:
( ) makes an alert.
( ) exposes an opinion.
( ) presents a quote.
Question 3 - There is a present tense verb in the segment:
( ) “[…] looking at where he was and where he ended up.”
( ) “Until, when turning pages, an alligator appears beside […]”
( ) "Looking closely, you will see birds, insects."
Question 4 – In “[…] he proposes a simple idea […]”, the present tense “proposes” expresses:
( ) an action of the trochoscope.
( ) an action by Bernardo Carvalho.
( ) an action of a drawing.
Question 5 - In the period "On each page, a piece is removed and placed in the white space, beside.", the present tense verb "is" forms a phrase with:
( ) an infinitive
( ) a gerund
( ) a participle
Question 6 – In the passage “Afterwards, an elephant and a rhinoceros.”, a verb in the present tense is hidden. Point it out:
( ) "go"
( ) "pops up"
( ) "comes up"
Question 7 – In the phrase “You can even play guessing with a friend: for each piece, a guess!”, using the present tense verb “may”, the author of the text:
( ) invites the reader.
( ) gives an instruction to the reader.
( ) expresses a wish to the reader.
Question 8 – The verbs in the present tense, analyzed along the previous questions, comprise:
( ) a tale about the Trochoscope.
( ) a book review Trochoscope.
( ) an article about the book Trochoscope.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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