Portuguese Activity: Past Imperfect

Portuguese activity, aimed at eighth grade students, aims to study the past tense imperfect. The questions presented are based on the text “Saudade”, a fragment from the book “The ticket that the wind took”, written by Elza Césari Sallouti.

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

Longing

Filisbino Matoso walked that it was just sad. I didn't want anything to do with life nor did I accept anyone's comfort. Anyone passing through the Sítio da Purunga Sonora would hear the young man's laments.

There! How I suffer! Without my dear Florisbelta I cannot live. What good is this beautiful place with a lake if I'm swimming in tears?

Everyone who lived in Purunga Sonora and its surroundings knew about Florisbelta's history. It was the great love of Filisbino Matoso. The weeping had started at sunrise, when this Florisbelta, without telling anyone, decided to take the road to the city.

SALLOUTI, Elza Césari. “The ticket that the wind took”. São Paulo: Salesiana Dom Bosco, 1991.

Questions

Question 1 - The text read is intended to:

a) give a news.

b) publicize a place.

c) tell a story.

d) teach something.

Question 2 - The highlighted verb was inflected in the past tense imperfect in:

a) “Filisbino Matoso walked which was just sad.”

b) "Who pass around the Sítio da Purunga Sonora […]"

c) "From what OK this beautiful place with a lake, if I'm swimming in tears?”

d) “[…] without notifying anyone, will solve take the road to the city.”

Question 3 - Point out the verbs in the past tense that make up the second sentence of the text:

A:

Question 4 – Highlight the verbs in the past tense present in the following sentences:

a) “Everyone who lived in Purunga Sonora and its surroundings […]”

b) “[…] they knew about Florisbelta's history.”

c) "It was the great love of Filisbino Matoso."

Question 5 - The imperfect past tense expresses facts:

a) in continuity in the past.

b) likely to happen.

c) situated in a remote past.

d) fully completed.

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

At answers are in the link above the header.

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