Question

REVIEW: PRESENT PERFECT OR PAST SIMPLE?

3. Releia os fragmentos abaixo e faça os exercícios A e B, na sequência.

I. ...public interest in race has skyrocketed.

II. The issue of race in Brazil has moved to the center of the social-policy agenda.

III. ...the whole Idea sounded preposterous and highly unlikely just a few years ago.

IV. ...social policies have begun to explicity promote social integration of blacks and mulattos.


A. Which fragments refer to finished actions that happened at an unspecified time in the past and

have consequences in the present?

a. Fragment I c. Fragment III

b. Fragment II d. Fragment IV

Are the fragments in the Present Perfect or in the Past Simple tense? _____________________

B. Which fragment refers to an action that happened at a specified time in the past? ___________

What is the time expression (adverb of time) used in the fragment? “____________________”

4. Complete the sentences below with the correct time of the verbs in parentheses. Use Present

Perfect or the Past Simple. (since significa desde e é muito usado nos tempos do Perfect

Tense)

a. During the colonial period, the colonists _____________________(bring) hundreds of

thousands of African slaves to work in the sugar plantations.

b. Rio de Janeiro State University (Uerj) __________________________(adopt) racial quota

policies since 2002.

c. The Supreme Court of Brazil ___________________________(approve) the adoption of

racial quota policies in higher education institutions across Brazil in 2012.

d. Cities like São Paulo ___________________________(develop) into multicultural and

multiethnic places as a result of centuries of international immigration.

e. Princess Isabel ___________________________(proclaim) the abolition of slavery in Brazil

on May 13, 1888.

f. Since Brazil ___________(abolish) slavery in 1888, its laws ________________(be) racially

neutral.

5. Leia o cartoon e escolha a letra correta que responde cada uma das perguntas abaixo.

I. In what historical period is the scene

depicted in the cartoon set?

a) The Age of Discovery (15th-17th

centuries), a period during which

Europeans explore Africa, the

Americas, Asia and Oceania.

b) The Age of Enlightenment

(17th-18th centuries), a cultural

movement of intellectuals,

first in Europe and later in

the Amercian colonies.


II. How does the colonizer address the native inhabitants?

a) Rudely b) Politely

III. What is the colonizer’s real intention?

a) He wants to assimilate the culture of the native inhabitants.

b) He wants to impose the culture of his country on the native inhabitants.


IV. What is the tone of the cartoon?

a) Sad b) Ironic


V. Which verb forms complete the following sentence about the topic of the cartoon?

During the European colonization of the Americas, explorers ___________ control of the

native inhabitants’ land and ____________their culture and ideologies on them.

a) took - imposed b) have taken - have imposed

Answer 1

Resposta:

a resposta da b e lentos da história