Portuguese Activity: Past Imperfect

Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, addresses past tense imperfect. What does this tense indicate in the communicative context? Let's learn? To do this, answer the questions referring to the text about the game Cat's bed.

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

the cat bed

The games played by indigenous children at the beginning of the colonization of Brazil __________ marked by joy and proximity to nature. Even before the arrival of the Portuguese, the small indigenous people were already playing with animals and dolls made of baked clay, pestle seeds, small bows and arrows and much more. A common game was to form figures out of string – what we know today as a cat's bed. A curious fact is that, originally, only boys participated in this game. Over time, the girls also started to participate.

“Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 209.
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Questions

Question 1 – Fill in the space with the verb "to be" in the past tense:

“The games played by indigenous children at the beginning of the colonization of Brazil __________ marked by joy and proximity to nature.”

Question 2 – In the passage “[…] the little indigenous people were already playing with animals and dolls made of baked clay […]”, the adverb adds to the verb in the past tense a circumstance of:

Question 3 – In “[…] only the boys participated in this game.”, the verb in the past tense refers to a plural person. Identify it:

Question 4 – Underline the verb in the past tense below:

“Over time, the girls also started to participate.”

Question 5 - In the text about the cat's bed, were the verbs in the past tense used in the indicative mood or in the subjunctive mood? Explain:

Question 6 – Verbs in the past tense express in the text:

( ) continuous facts in the past.

( ) facts concluded in the past.

( ) sporadic facts in the past.

By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

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