Portuguese activity, aimed at ninth grade students, aims to study the verbal predication. Intransitive or transitive verb? Do you know what they mean? Do you know the role they play? Are you in doubt about that? So, be sure to answer the proposed questions based on a joke!
This Portuguese language activity is available for download in an editable Word template, ready to print in PDF and also the completed activity.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
The woman calls her husband:
– Honey, I have bad news and good news!
– Sorry, but I'm in the middle of a super tense meeting; just tell me the good one.
– Your car's airbag is working fine!
BUCHWEITZ, Donald (org.) "Jokes to make you laugh." Belo Horizonte: Reading, 2001.
Question 1 - In the introduction of the joke, the verb “telephone” is:
( ) intransitive because it has complete meaning.
( ) direct transitive because it asked for a complement without a preposition.
( ) indirect transitive because it asked for a complement with a preposition.
Question 2 - In the excerpt “- Dear, I have bad news and good news!”, the core of the direct object of the verb “I have” is:
( ) "news"
( ) "bad"
( ) "Good"
Question 3 – In the passage “- Sorry, but I'm in the middle of a super tense meeting […]”, the intransitive verb “I am” is accompanied by an adverbial adjunct that indicates:
( ) time
( ) place
( ) mode
Question 4 - Note this speech from the husband:
“[…] just tell me the good one.”
The verb “say” is bitransitive because it required two objects. Identify them:
a) Direct object of the verb “say”:
b) Indirect object of the verb “say”:
Question 5 - In his wife's reply “- Your car's airbag it is working fine!”, the highlighted verb is:
( ) intransitive
( ) binding
( ) direct transitive
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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