Portuguese Activity: Subjunctive Mode

Portuguese activity, focused on students in the eighth grade of elementary school, explores subjunctive mode. Let's analyze this verb mode in the text little colorful elephant? For this, answer the proposed questions!

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

little colorful elephant

The game starts with choosing a leader and, so that everyone has the same chance, the ideal is to make a draw among the participants. Ready? The leader shouts: “Little colored elephant!”, and the others respond: “What color?”. The leader thinks of a color and shouts, for example, “blue!”, and the children run to touch something blue. But right after giving the order, the leader runs to try to reach a participant, before he touches the chosen color. Whoever is captured leaves the game. The last to be caught wins. Why is this game called colored elephant? Hmmm… Good question!

“Ciência Hoje das Crianças” magazine. Edition 231.
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Questions

Question 1 – In the excerpt below, there is a verb in the subjunctive mood. Underline it:

“The game starts with choosing a leader and, so that everyone has the same chance, the ideal is to draw a lottery among the participants.”

Question 2 – The verb in the subjunctive mood, underlined in the previous question, is in tense:

( ) past tense imperfect.

( ) gift.

( ) future.

Question 3 – In “[…] the leader runs to try to reach a participant, before he touches the chosen color.”, the verb in the subjunctive mood composes a sentence that indicates:

( ) time.

( ) condition.

( ) goal.

Question 4 – In the passage "He who is captured leaves the game.", the verb "to be" was inflected in the subjunctive mode to express:

( ) a certainty.

( ) a possibility.

( ) a recommendation.

Question 5 - In the above passage, the verb in the subjunctive mode refers to:

( ) to the 1st person.

( ) to the 2nd person.

( ) to the 3rd person singular.

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

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