Sair da aula
Nesta lição, vamos aprender sobre o past simple e o past perfect, além de treinar o listenning com uma gravação de entrevista de emprego!
1 . Quantas horas você trabalha ou estuda por dia? Você sente que tem controle suficiente sobre seu trabalho ou estudo? Você já pensou em trabalhar em casa?
2 . Você ouvirá a entrevista de rádio em que Melissa conta como foi sua preparação para ser contadora. Preste atenção nas palavras do quadro abaixo e consulte o significado no Word Bank, se necessário.
accountant | factory | partner | position | trainee
3 . Diga se as frases abaixo são verdadeiras ou falsas.
1 Melissa didn’t want to go to university.
2 She hadn’t been bored at school.
3 Her first job was as a receptionist for a firm of solicitors.
4 After six months in her first job she was bored.
5 After she had taken a test she started training as an accountant.
Grammar: Past simple and past perfect
O past simple indica uma ação concluída.
I worked as a receptionist for three years.
O past perfect é usado para descrever algo que aconteceu antes dos eventos descritos no past simple. O past perfect é formado pelo sujeito + had + particípio passado do verbo.
I realised I had been bored at school.
4 . Observe o resto da entrevista com Melissa. Escolha o tempo verbal
apropriado das opções em itálico.
Do you know?
Geralmente usamos marcadores temporais como when, already, by the time e after com tempos verbais no passado para descrever a ordem dos acontecimentos:
When I got to the airport, my flight had already left.
By the time I arrived at the cinema, the film had already started.
After I had been there for a year, I asked for a promotion.
20 minutes+
Observe uma página da agenda de Melissa. Complete as frases usando o past simple ou o past perfect.
Tuesday May 18
9.00 Phone Max Ball to tell him about yesterday’s visit to the factory. Phone client in Paris.
10.00 Finish report for Max.
11.00 Take cat to vet.
12.00 Alex Goode here for a meeting.
1.30 Meet Bob for lunch.
2.30 Collect cat from vet.
3.00 Phone computer supplier.
1 At 9 a.m. Melissa ……………… (phone) Max to tell him she ……………… (visit) the factory the day before.
2 Melissa ……………… (finish) the report for Max after she ……………………
(phone) a client in Paris.
3 By the time Melissa ………………. (have) lunch, she ……………… already
……………… (take) the cat to the vet.
4 Melissa ……………… (meet) Bob for lunch at 1.30.
5 When Melissa ……………… (look) at the clock at 4 p.m., she realised she
……………… (forget) to telephone the computer supplier.
Word Bank
accountant (substantivo) = contador
factory (substantivo) = fábrica
firm (substantivo) = firma, empresa
logical (adjetivo) = lógico
partner (substantivo) = sócio
position (substantivo) = cargo
qualify (verbo) = qualificar-se
solicitor (RU) / lawyer (EUA) (substantivo) = advogado
supplier (substantivo) = fornecedor
trainee (substantivo) = estagiário
Respostas:
Exercício 3
1 True
2 False
3 False
4 True
5 True
Exercício 4
1 took
2 had worked
3 finished
4 had
5 had been
6 wanted
7 wanted
8 was
9 had been
20 minutes+
1 phoned / had visited
2 finished / had phoned
3 had / had taken 4 met
5 looked / had forgotten