Past Review Part I

VERB TO BE - PAST FORM

  

I	WAS
YOU	WERE
HE	WAS
SHE	WAS
IT	WAS
WE	WERE
YOU	WERE
THEY	WERE

IMPORTANTE!!!

·         O verbo to be significa ser/estar em inglês.

·         Não se usa o auxiliar DID para formar a negativa e a interrogativa, pois o próprio verbo to be funciona como auxiliar.

·         Para formar a interrogativa, o verbo to be vai para o início da frase.

·         Para formar a negativa, usa-se a forma negativa do verbo to be:

·         Wasn’t ( ou was not) / weren’t ( ou were not)

Afirmativa	Interrogativa	Negativa
I was a student in 99.	Was I a student in 99?	I wasn’t a student in 99.
They were friends at school.	Were they friends at school?	They weren’t friends at school.
He was my teacher last year.	Was he my teacher last year?	He wasn’t my teacher last year.

SIMPLE PAST TENSE:  REGULAR VERBS

They watch television every evening – present Simple

They watched television yesterday evening – Past simple

I, you, he, she , it, we, you, they

watched

Os verbos regulares formam o passado acrescentando ED ao infinitivo.

Work – worked Stay – stayed

Clean – cleaned Arrive – arrived

Start – started Dance – danced

· This morning I cleaned my teeth.

· Terry worked in a bank from 1980 to 1990

· Yesterday it rained all morning. It stopped at lunchtime.

Regras para a formação do passado nos verbos regulares

·         regra geral: Para se formar o passado dos verbos regulares acrescenta-se –ed ao verbo:     talk – talked                       like - liked                         want - wanted

·         Se o verbo terminar com a letra –e, acrescenta-se apenas o –d:

Love – loved                            Change- changed                            Decide – decided

·         Se o verbo terminar em y, você deve observar qual a letra que o antecede:

-          Se for uma vogal, mantém-se o y e apenas acrescenta-se o –ed

Play – played            Destroy – destroyed

-          se for uma consoante, troca-se o -y por –ied:

carry – carried         study – studied               hurry - hurried

·         Verbos terminados em Consoante+vogal+consonate (CVC):

-          monossílabos (apenas uma sílaba) dobram a última consoante antes de receber –ed:

stop – stopped                        rob: robbed                      drop: dropped

Exercises:

 1.A) Complete the text filling in the spaces with WAS or WERE.

Elvir Aron Presley ______ the full name of the “King of Rock”. His beginnings __________ very modest. His parents _________ Vernon and Gadlys Presley, simple people from Mississippi. They ________ very poor. Their home _______ a small, modest house in Tupelo, Mississippi. When Elvis was eighteen, the Presleys _______ living in Memphis, Tenesse. Young Elvis _______ a truck driver at 35 dollars a week. But the boy´s parents and friends _________ certain of his musical talent, and they _______ right. In 1954 “That´s all right, Mama”, Elvis´s first record ________ a great success and the poor boy from Tupelo _______ world famous.

B) Answer the questions according to the text:

a)      What was the “King of Rock’s” full name?

b)     Were Elvis´s beginnings modest?

c)      Was Elvis´s family from Mississippi or from Texas.

d)     Where were the Presleys living when Elvis was eighteen?

e)      What was Elvis’s first record?

f)       When was Elvis world famous?

Write the past simple of these verbs.

a)      work	b)     study	c)      play	d)     happen
e)      talk	f)       like	g)      destroy	h)     omit
i)       admit	j)       want	k)     rob	l)       hurry
m)   drop	n)     stop	o)     change	p)     study

3. Supply the following verb forms, in the past simple.

Want – querer	Pass – passar	Cook – cozinhar	Clean - limpar	Help - ajudar
Offer - oferecer	Discover - descobrir	Correct - corrigir	Turn off-  desligar	Play- brincar, tocar, jogar

1.       I ______turned________ off the TV because it was very late.

2.       He always _________________ his examinations when he was young.

3.       I _________________ my room before going to school.

4.       They _______________________ the piano very well years ago.

5.       The teacher _________________ our tests last night.

6.       Columbus _____________________ America in 1492.

7.       Tom _____________________ to go to the movies alone.

8.       Susan ______________ me a piece of chocolate cake.

9.       We _____________________ him with his exercises.

10.   Mother _______________________ black beans yesterday.

4. Complete the sentences. Use one of these verbs in the past simple.

Clean – limpar	Die – morrer	Enjoy – divertir	Finish – terminar	Happen – acontecer
Open - abrir	Rain – chover	Start – começar	Stay – ficar	Want - querer

a)      I ___cleaned___ my teeth three times yesterday.

b)     It was hot in the room, so I _____________________ the window.

c)      The concert ______________ at 7.30 and __________________ at 10 o’clock.

d)     When I was a child, I _____________________ to be a doctor.

e)      The accident ___________________ last Sunday afternoon.

f)       It’s a nice day today but yesterday it ___________________ all day.

g)      We ______________ our holiday last year. We ______________ at a very nice place.

h)     Ann’s grandfather ___________________ when he was 90 years old.