1. Unit 7
Past form of verbs

2. We didn’t know you liked this band.
Há várias formas de expressar situações passadas. Revise algumas delas:
Simple Past
Past Perfect
Past Continuous
Used to
Would
We didn’t know you liked this band.

3. She hadn’t arrived when the class started.
Há várias formas de expressar situações passadas. Revise algumas delas:
Simple Past
Past Perfect
Past Continuous
Used to
Would
She hadn’t arrived when the class started.

4. I was waiting for the bus when the rain started.
Há várias formas de expressar situações passadas. Revise algumas delas:
Simple Past
Past Perfect
Past Continuous
Used to
Would
I was waiting for the bus when the rain started.

5. My parents used to live in Manaus when they were younger.
Há várias formas de expressar situações passadas. Revise algumas delas:
My parents used to live in Manaus when they were younger.
Simple Past
Past Perfect
Past Continuous
Used to
Would

6. Simple Past Past Perfect Past Continuous Used to Would
Há várias formas de expressar situações passadas. Revise algumas delas:
The teachers would always call my parents when I did something bad at school.
Simple Past
Past Perfect
Past Continuous
Used to
Would

7. She had become a teacher.
Revise o past perfect:
Affirmative:
subject + had + past participle
She had become a teacher.
Negative:
subject + hadn’t + past participle
She hadn’t become a teacher.
Interrogative:
had + subject + past participle
Had she become a teacher?

8. O simple present também pode ser usado para descrever o passado em narrativas:
Little Red Riding Hood asks her mother if she can visit her grandmother. "That's a good idea," her mother says.

9. O present perfect pode expressar a idéia de que algo aconteceu no passado sem mencionar quando.
I’ve spent all my money.

10. Unit 7
Direct and indirect speech

11. My mother said that I wasn’t going to play video games for a month.
O indirect speech serve para contar algo que já havia sido dito anteriormente.
You are not going to play video games for a month, young lady!
My mother said that I wasn’t going
to play video games for a month.

12. My mother said that I wasn’t going to play video games for a month.
Note que o tempo verbal do indirect speech é diferente do usado no direct speech:
You are not going to play video games for a month, young lady!
My mother said that I wasn’t going
to play video games for a month.

13. Para saber qual tempo verbal usar no indirect speech, siga esta tabela:
Simple Present
Simple Past
Past Continuous
Present Perfect
Present Perfect Continuous
Past Perfect
Past Perfect Continuous
Can/will/may
Could/might/would/
should/must
Imperative
Simple Present/Simple Past
Simple Past/Past Perfect
Past Perfect Continuous
Past Perfect
Could/would/might
Could/might/would/
should/must
Infinitive

14. “I don’t know if she has a boyfriend”, Marcos said.
Veja alguns exemplos:
DIRECT SPEECH
INDIRECT SPEECH
“I don’t know if she has a boyfriend”, Marcos said.
Marcos said he didn’t know if she had a boyfriend.

15. “Lilly has bought a new computer”, Jon said.
Veja alguns exemplos:
DIRECT SPEECH
INDIRECT SPEECH
“Lilly has bought a new computer”, Jon said.
Jon said Lilly had bought a new computer.

16. “I can’t dance”, she said.
Veja alguns exemplos:
DIRECT SPEECH
INDIRECT SPEECH
“I can’t dance”, she said.
She said she couldn’t dance.

17. “The girls came here yesterday and met us”, Ginger said.
Atenção ao uso de pronomes e palavras que determinam tempo e lugar:
DIRECT SPEECH
INDIRECT SPEECH
“The girls came here yesterday and met us”, Ginger said.
Ginger said the girls had gone there and met them.