Portuguese Activity: Verbs in the past perfect tense

Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, addresses the past perfect verbs. What do they indicate in the communicative context? Possible actions in the past, actions completed in the past or actions in progress in the past? How about learning? To do this, answer the questions that refer to the text about the book the paper picker.

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

NAME:

Read:

the paper picker

"It was Christmas Eve, it was getting dark and it didn't stop raining." Sheltered under an overpass, a group of four boys hoped to spend another night of hunger and cold. But they took in, with what little they had, another poor boy. Cardboard, as he was called for being a paper picker, enchanted his new friends with the reading of Jesus' parables. Two years later, under the same viaduct, Papelão approached another group of boys who suffered not only from hunger, but also from neglect, indifference and prejudice. He also told them his parables and won them over with a deep show of solidarity. The strong presence of Cardboard made the boys question: after all, was Cardboard Jesus disguised as a paper picker?

Author of the book: Fernando Carraro. Available in: .

Questions

Question 1 - Identify the passage that contains a verb in the past perfect tense:

( ) “[…] a group of four boys expected to spend another night of hunger and cold.”

() “Cardboard, as he was called for being a paper picker, enchanted his new friends […]”

( ) “[…] after all, would Cardboard be Jesus disguised as a paper picker?”

Question 2 - Emphasize the verb in the perfect past tense in this period of the text:

"But they took in, with what little they had, another poor boy."

Question 3 - In the prayer “Cardboard approached another group of boys […]”, the past tense perfect verb is in the voice:

( ) active.

( ) passive.

( ) reflective.

Question 4 - In “[…] he won them over with a profound demonstration of solidarity.”, the complement of the verb in the past tense resumes:

Question 5 - It can be concluded that the verbs in the past perfect tense express:

( ) possible actions in the past.

( ) actions completed in the past.

( ) actions in progress in the past.

By Denyse Lage Fonseca

Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

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