Portuguese Activity: Past Imperfect

Portuguese activity, aimed at eighth grade students, addresses the past tense imperfect. What does it indicate? An unfinished fact or a closed fact? How about learning? To do this, answer the questions based on a fragment of the text the saci, by Monteiro Lobato.

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Fragment of "O Saci"

Dona Benta's farm was in a very beautiful place. The house was old-fashioned, with spacious and fresh rooms. There was Dona Benta's room, the biggest of all, and next to Narizinho, who lived with his grandmother. There was also the “quarto do Pedrinho”, who spent his holidays there every year; and Aunt Nastácia's, the house cook and handyman. Emilia and the Viscount had no rooms; they lived in a corner of the office, where the girl's three bookcases and study table were located.

Monteiro Lobato. “The saci”. Blue Library, 2016.

Questions

Question 1 - In the passage “The house was an old one, with spacious and fresh rooms.”, the verb in the past tense “was” was used to:

( ) praise Dona Benta's house.

( ) criticize Dona Benta's house.

( ) characterize the house of Dona Benta.

Question 2 - In the sentence “[…] I spent the holidays there every year […]”, the verb in the past tense “passed” indicates an action:

( ) from Narizinho.

( ) of Pedrinho.

( ) of Aunt Anastasia.

Question 3 - In the excerpt “[…] they lived in a corner of the office […]”, the verb is in the past tense because:

( ) expresses an ephemeral fact in the life of Emilia and the Viscount.

( ) expresses a constant fact in the life of Emilia and the Viscount.

( ) expresses a sporadic fact in the life of Emilia and the Viscount.

Question 4 – In the text above, the subject of the verb “stayed” is:

( ) hidden

( ) simple

( ) compound

Question 5 - The verbs that make up the text were used in the past tense in an indicative way, as they express:

( ) certainties.

( ) hypotheses.

( ) possibilities.

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

At answers are in the link above the header.

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