Portuguese activity, suitable for ninth grade students, explores reflective voice verbs. Let's analyze this voice in the text that presents us with the film Spy by chance? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Boy is involved in a mysterious crime from forty years ago
Tim, a ten-year-old boy, moves with his family to an old hotel located in the coastal region of the country. He struggles to adapt to his new home, until he meets Simon, a peculiar young man newly awakened from a deep sleep that has kept him imprisoned, out of touch with society, since 1974.
With Simon adjusting to today's world and Tim adjusting to his new home, the pair begin a great friendship. In addition to friendship, the two live an adventure of espionage, as Simon was a secret service agent and needs to solve a mysterious crime from forty years ago.
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Question 1 – In “Tim, a ten-year-old boy, moves with his family to an old hotel located on the coast of the country.”, there is a verb in the reflective voice. Identify it:
Question 2 – The verb identified above is in the reflective voice to indicate that:
( ) the subject is an agent.
( ) the subject is patient.
( ) the subject is agent and patient.
Question 3 – In the part “He suffers to adapt to the new home […]”, the “if” indicates:
( ) the reflective voice of the verb “adapt”.
( ) the pronominal passive voice of the verb “adaptar”.
( ) the indeterminacy of the subject of the verb “adapt”.
Question 4 – Underline the verbs in the reflective voice below:
"With Simon adjusting to today's world and Tim adjusting to his new home, the pair begin a great friendship."
Question 5 - The verbs in the reflective voice underlined above make up clauses:
( ) that add up.
( ) that alternate.
( ) that contrast.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
