Past Continuous exercícios (com gabarito comentado)
O Toda Matéria selecionou 5 exercícios sobre Past Continuous (Passado Contínuo) para ajudar você a dominar esse tempo verbal do inglês.
O Passado Contínuo é usado para indicar ações contínuas que ocorreram no passado.
A sua estrutura é formada pelo verbo auxiliar to be conjugado no Simple Past (was/were) + verbo principal conjugado no gerúndio (-ing).
Agora que você já recapitulou, que tal praticar?
Mãos à obra!
1. (UECE)
In terms of tense, the sentences "Katherine Rowe’s blue-haired avatar was flying across a grassy landscape", "Some students had already gathered online." and "On a square coffee table sat a short stack of original issues of the magazine…" are respectively in the
a) present continuous, present perfect, simple past.
b) past perfect continuous, past perfect, past perfect.
c) past continuous, past perfect, simple past.
d) past continuous, simple past, simple present.
2. (IESES) Read the sentences below:
I. John study engineering at my university.
II. Helen is going to live in London last year.
III. Pedro wishes he can read more this month.
IV. When I grew up, I want to be a jazz singer.
Choose the best alternative to replace the words underlined in the sentences above:
a) Is studying – went to – cannot – grow up.
b) Studied – will – could – grow up.
c) Studies – was going to – could – grow up.
d) Studies – goes – could – grown up.
e) Studied – was going to – cannot – grown up.
Para complementar os seus estudos, não deixe de ler os conteúdos indicados abaixo.
3. (Idecan)
A man stepped onto the overnight train and told the conductor, “I need you to wake me up in Philadelphia. I'm a deep sleeper and can be angry when I get up, but no matter what, I want you to help me make that stop. Here's $100 to make sure".
The conductor agreed. The man fell asleep, and when he awoke he heard the announcement that the train was approaching New York, which meant they had passed Philadelphia a long time ago. Furious, he ran to the conductor. “I gave you $100 to make sure I got off in Philadelphia, you idiot!" “Wow," another passenger said to his traveling companion. “Is that guy mad!" “Yeah," his companion replied. “But not half as mad as that guy they forced off the train in Philadelphia."
(English2Go, No 7,The Reader's Digest Association, 2005. P. 80.)
In “ ...the train was approaching New York" a gerund is used as a/an
a) verb.
b) noun.
c) article.
d) adjective.
e) quantifier.
Antes de avançar para o próximo exercício, veja também:
- Verbos regulares e irregulares em Inglês: listas completas com tradução
- Substantivos em inglês: tipos, formas de plural, exemplos e exercícios
- Artigos definidos e indefinidos em inglês: quando usar, exemplos e exercícios
- Adjetivos em inglês: classificação, posição na frase e exercícios
4) (FUNCAB)
Read the text below and answer the questions that follow:
Teaching English as a foreign language teacher: job description
Teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) involves teaching adults and children whose first or main language is not English. This can be done in the UK or abroad and the students may be learning English for either business or leisure reasons.
Teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) is also a widely used term and often means the same thing as TEFL. It’s sometimes specifically used to refer to teaching English to people who are living in the UK but who do not speak English as a first language. These students are most commonly refugees and immigrants and need to learn the language in order to help them settle into the UK society.Their courses are often government funded.
Teaching English as a second language (TESL) or teaching English as an additional language (TEAL) may also be terms that are used but they generally all refer to the same thing - teaching English to someone whose native language is not English.
Teachers of English as a foreign language can work in a variety of settingswith different age ranges. This can include commercial language schools, schools and institutions of further and higher education throughout the UK and overseas. Some may also teach in industry, while others are self-employed. Classes are usually taught in English, evenwith beginners. Teaching English as a foreign language teacher: job description
Adapted from: < www.prospects.ac.uk/case-studies-working- abroad>
Read these sentences:
1. I studied English five years ago.
2. I was studying English when the telephone rang.
3. Have you ever studied French?
4. I am going to study Spanish next year.
Choose the correct alternative.
a) All the sentences are correct.
b) All the sentences are incorrect
c) There is only one correct sentence.
d) There is only one incorrect sentence.
e) There are two correct sentences.
Quer saber mais sobre os verbos em inglês? Não deixe de consultar os textos abaixo!
- Simple Past: quando usar, conjugação e exercícios
- Past Continuous: uso, formação e resumo em vídeo
- Present Perfect: formação, exemplos de conjugação e exercícios
- Going to: regras, exemplos e exercícios
5. (EEAAR)
Investigators trying to find out what happened to a Malaysia Airlines jet that disappeared en route to Beijing on Saturday morning were examining the causes of plane crashes: mechanical failure, pilot error, bad weather. But the discovery that two of the passengers were carrying stolen passports also raised the possibility of criminal violence.
(Adapted from “Passport Theft adds mystery of missing Malaysia Airlines Jet”)
GLOSSARY
raised – aumentou, ampliou
The underlined verbs in the text are in the
a) present progressive.
b) past progressive.
c) simple present.
d) future.
Ficou interessado em aprimorar os seus conhecimentos sobre a língua inglesa? Não perca os conteúdos abaixo!
- Simple Present: regras e exercícios resolvidos
- Simple Future: modelos de conjugação, exemplos traduzidos e exercícios
- Diferença entre futuro com will e going to
- Present Continuous: regras e exercícios
- Past Perfect: formação, resumo em vídeo e exercícios
- Past Perfect Continuous: uso, formação e exercícios
- Os verbos modais mais usados em inglês