REVIEW: VERB TENSES
Read the fragments from the text on page 24 and do exercises 1-3. Write the answers in
your notebook.
1. "In the past, when groups of people lived in relative
isolation, cultures varied widely from place to place."
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II. "Today, as a result of high-speed communication,
trade, and travel, cultures all around the world are
encountering and adopting new ideas."
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1. Copy the table below in your notebook and, in pairs, complete
it. Choose the correct item (Aor) in each case and replace
the icon with the correct answer.
Fragment !
Fragment II
Verb tense
A Past Simple
Past Continuous
A Present Simple
Present Continuous
Use
A to talk about completed actions
and states in the past.
to talk about actions in progress
in the past.
A to talk about facts
and generalizations.
to express changes happening
around now (current tendencies).
Time expression
In the past

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Respostas

respondido por: CremildaBR

⇒⇒ Simple past

⇒⇒ Present continuous

I. "In the past, when groups of people lived in relative isolation, cultures varied widely from place to place."

II. "Today, as a result of high-speed communication, trade, and travel, cultures all around the world are encountering and adopting new ideas."

Fragment I

Simple past >>> lived - varied

To talk about completed actions and states in the past.

Fragment II

Present continuous >>> are encountering - adopting

To express changes happening around now (current tendencies).

Time expression

Fragment I >>> in the past

Fragment II >>> today

⇒⇒ Present continuous >>> tempo verbal que expressa algo que está acontecendo no momento em que se fala. Normalmente, é usado ''now'' - agora, ''at the moment'' ou ''at this moment'' - no momento, no final da frase.

→ Estrutura present continuous - afirmativa

sujeito + verbo to be + verbo -ing + complemento

I am doing my homework now.

They are playing soccer now.

David is studying English.

I am preparing lunch now.

→ Para fazer a negativa >>> acrescenta ''not'' após o verbo ''to be''

I am not doing my homework now.

→ Para fazer a interrogativa >>> coloca o verbo ''to be'' no início da frase

Are they playing soccer now?

Is Susan working now?

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