Portuguese activity, aimed at eighth grade students, explores verbs in the imperative mood. How about analyzing this verb mode in the text How to make it – Chocolate cake? To do so, answer the proposed questions!
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Start by breaking the eggs and separating the whites and yolks into two bowls. Reserve the yolks and place the whites in the large bowl. Use the whisk to beat the egg whites until they are white and stiff like snow. _______________, then, the yolks and stir with the wooden spoon for a few seconds. Then add – in this order – the sugar, butter, wheat flour, chocolate, milk and yeast. Stir the dough a little as you add each ingredient. Now, just grease the mold with butter and wheat flour, pour the dough and put it in the medium oven until it rises.
Magazine “Science Today for Children”. Edition 229.
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Question 1 - Underline the following verbs:
“Reserve the yolks and place the whites in the large bowl.”
Question 2 – The italicized verbs above are in the imperative mood because:
( ) indicate certainties.
( ) express possibilities.
( ) instruct in the preparation of something.
Question 3 – In “Use the whisk to beat the egg whites until they are white and firm as snow.”, the verb in the imperative mood is:
( ) direct transitive.
( ) transitive indirect.
( ) transitive direct and indirect.
Question 4 – Complete the space with the verb “add” in the imperative mood:
“_______________, then, the yolks and stir with the wooden spoon for a few seconds.”
Question 5 - In the passage “Stir a little bit the dough by adding each ingredient.”, the underlined expression:
( ) explains the meaning of the verb in the imperative mood.
( ) intensifies the meaning of the verb in the imperative mood.
( ) complements the meaning of the verb in the imperative mood.
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Letters and specialist in distance education.
