Portuguese activity, recommended for eighth grade students, explores the verb modes. Did you know that depending on the way the verb is inflected, it can express different ideas? It can express a certainty, a desire, an order, a hypothesis… How about you analyze the verbal modes that make up the text What are teeth made of? For this study, answer the various questions proposed!
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I bet you've heard the names of some components of teeth: calcium, sodium and potassium. Who has never heard your mother, father, grandmother or grandfather say “You have to drink milk to have beautiful teeth”? Because milk is very rich in these elements.
Now get this: the tooth isn't just that part you can see. In addition to having several different layers inside it, the tooth is much bigger inside your gums. Look at your teeth in front of the mirror. That white part you see is called the crown. It is made up of three different layers. The outermost layer, which is what you're looking at, is the enamel, which is made up of, among other things, calcium, sodium, potassium, water, and some proteins.
But if you make a hole in your tooth (please don't!), after enamel you will find dentin. It also has inorganic salts and is very hard, only slightly less than enamel. More inside, there's the pulp. It has blood vessels and nerve endings. I don't know if you know, but your tooth has living cells too and the food for them comes through the blood vessels.
Oh, and what do these nerve endings do? They are what give the tooth sensitivity. Have you ever noticed that when you drink a very hot soup or a super cold ice cream you feel that annoying little pain? It's because there in the pulp, the nerve endings send this pain message to your brain.
And inside the gum? Well, your tooth needs to be secured somehow, doesn't it? And just as a tree attaches itself to the ground through a root, its tooth also has a root to attach itself to the bone. What's more, this root attaches to the bone through cementum, which is the softest part of the tooth structure.
Phew, I think it's already __________...
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Question 1 - In the passage “[…] milk is very rich in these elements.”, the verb “to be” was used in the indicative mode to express:
a) a wish
b) a certainty
c) a hypothesis
d) a recommendation
Question 2 - Point out the passage where the highlighted verb is in imperative mode:
The) "Look your teeth in front of the mirror."
b) “I don't know if you You know, but there are live cells in your tooth too […]"
c) "Oh, and what do these nerve endings?”
d) “[…] this root if arrest to the bone through cementum […]"
Question 3 - The imperative verb, which composes the excerpt mentioned above, indicates:
a) an order of who wrote the text.
b) a suggestion of who wrote the text.
c) an orientation of who wrote the text.
d) an affirmation of who wrote the text.
Question 4 – In “She also has inorganic salts […]”, the subject of the verb in the indicative resumes:
a) "your gum"
b) "crown"
c) "The outermost layer"
d) "the dentin"
Question 5 - In the phrase "They are the ones who give the tooth sensitivity.", the verb in the indicative "give" is:
a) intransitive
b) direct transitive
c) indirect transitive
d) direct and indirect transitive
Question 6 – Identify the verb modes, numbering according to the orientation:
(1) Indicative mode
(2) Subjunctive mode
(3) imperative mode
( ) “But if you make a hole in your tooth”.
( ) "(Please, do not do that!)".
( ) “after the enamel you will find the dentin”.
Question 7 – The period that ends the text must be filled with the verb “to speak”, in the perfect past tense of the indicative mood. Check the alternative where the filling was done correctly:
a) "Whew, I think I already say too much..."
b) "Whew, I think I would say too much..."
c) "Whew, I think I've already said too much..."
d) “Whew, I think I already said too much…”
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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