Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, aims to study the past tense verbs. Past perfect, imperfect or more-than-perfect? Do you know the difference? Let's learn? The proposed questions are based on the reflective text strange is people's heads, written by Ignacio de Loyola Brandão.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Once, in São Paulo, I lived on a street that was dominated by an amazing tree. At the time of flowering, it filled the sidewalk with color. To use a common place, a real carpet of flowers was on the sidewalk, we forgot the gray that surrounded us and came from asphalt, concrete, cement, the characteristic elements of this City. I noticed one day that the tree was starting to die. It dried slowly, until it dawned inert, without a leaf. It's a cycle, it will be reborn, we commented in the bar or in the bakery. It didn't come back. I asked the Botanical Institute to analyze the tree, and the technician concluded: it had been poisoned. Surprised, we street dwellers, who had a true symbol on the tree, began to remember a middle-aged neighbor who every morning was at the foot of the tree with a watering can. Full of suspicion, we went to her, asked, and she replied calmly, her eyes shining, aggressive and irritated:
– I really killed that damn tree.
- Because?
– Because at the time of the flower it littered my sidewalk, I was always sweeping those damn flowers.
A shock, amazement.
Ignacio de Loyola Brandão. “Green Manifesto”. São Paulo, Global.
Question 1 - “Once, in São Paulo, I lived on a street that was dominated by an incredible tree”. The verb in the past tense “morei” composes a said sentence:
a) by the middle-aged neighbor.
b) by the technician of the Botanical Institute.
c) by the narrator-character of the text.
d) by a neighbor of the narrator-character.
Question 2 - The verb in the underlined past tense takes up the “incredible tree” in:
The) "[…] filled the sidewalk of colors."
B) "[…] stayed a real carpet of flowers on the walk […]”
c) “[…] we forgot the gray that involved […]”
in came of asphalt, concrete, cement […]"
Question 3 - “I noticed one day that the tree was starting to die”. Point the verb in the past tense that precisely replaces the verb that introduces this period of the text:
a) I saw
b) I noticed
c) I understand
d) I deducted
Question 4 – In the excerpt "dried up slowly, until it dawned inert, without a leaf”, the evidenced verb indicates, in relation to the moment of speech, a fact:
a) predictable
b) completed
c) hypothetical
d) continuous
Question 5 - Carefully read the sentences and then underline the verbs in the past tense that make them up:
a) “I asked the Botanical Institute that […]”
b) “Full of suspicion, we went to her […]”
c) “[…] and she replied calmly, her eyes shining […]”
d) “– I really killed that damn tree.”
Question 6 – The verbs, underlined in the clauses above, were inflected in the past tense:
a) imperfect
b) perfect
c) more-than-perfect
d) future of past tense
Question 7 – Identify the passage in the text in which the use of a verb in the past tense is recorded. Then brand it:
A:
Question 8 – There is a predominance in the text of sequences of the type:
a) expository
b) argumentative
c) descriptive
d) narrative
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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