ACTIVITY IDEAS ABOUT IMPERFECT PRETERITE

The Portuguese language is essential in the formation of all students. So, we selected the best past tense activities that can be applied in the classroom as well as homework. Enjoy!

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 aims 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, it was just sad."

b) “Whoever passed by the Sítio da Purunga Sonora […]”

c) "What good is this beautiful place with a lake if I'm swimming in tears?"

d) “[…] without warning anyone, I decided to 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.