Accidents in the past – Simple Past and Past Continuous; Polysemic words – Atividade 6 - 07/04/2021
Simple Past and Past Continuous
Usos do Simple Past
Nós utilizamos o Simple Past para falar sobre:
- Algo que aconteceu uma vez no passado:
I met my husband in 1983.
We went to London for our holidays.
- Algo que aconteceu várias vezes no passado:
When I was a child I walked a mile to school every day.
We ate a lot while we were on holiday.
Algo que aconteceu por algum tempo, no passado:
I lived abroad for five years.
She played a lot of soccer when she was younger.
Uso do Past Continuous
O Past Continuous é um tempo verbal utilizado para indicar ações que estavam ocorrendo em um momento determinado do passado de uma forma progressiva, por isso também é muito utilizado quando estão sendo executadas duas ou mais ações no passado com a palavra auxiliar while.
- What were you doing at 8 o’clock last night? I was watching television.
- In 1994 he was working in a small town in Spain.
- When I woke up this morning it was raining and my mother was singing in the kitchen.
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Polysemic words (Palavras polissêmicas)
Polysemy refers to the quality of some words to have several related meanings. A word which has several related meanings is thus a polyseme. These can be compared to homonyms, which are words that have several completely different meanings.
Examples:
Police officers do not carry a lot of arms in UK.
A tidal wave of mud
BRUMADINHO, BRAZIL — Luiz de Castro was installing lamps at a mining complex in Brazil late last month when a loud blast split the air. He figured it was just a truck tire popping, but a friend knew better.
“No, it’s not that!” the friend said. “Run!”
Dashing up a staircase, caked in mud and pelted by flying rocks, Mr. Castro clambered to safety. But as he watched, a wall of mud unleashed by the collapse of a mining dam swallowed his co-workers, he said. Tiago, George, Icaro — they and at least 154 othe
Dashing up a staircase, caked in mud and pelted by flying rocks, Mr. Castro clambered to safety. But as he watched, a wall of mud unleashed by the collapse of a mining dam swallowed his co-workers, he said. Tiago, George, Icaro — they and at least 154 others, all buried alive.
1.Answer these questions in English.
a) What was Luis de Castro doing when a loud blast split the air?
b) How many people were buried alive?
2. Retire do texto:
a) Uma oração em que o verbo esteja no Past Continuous Tense.
b) Três orações em que o verbo regular esteja no Simple Past Tense.
c) Duas orações em que o verbo irregular esteja no Simple Past Tense.
Traffic accident fatalities in September 2020: hardly any change compared with September 2019
Number of persons injured up 0.6% on the same month a year earlier
WIESBADEN – In September 2020, 271 people died in road traffic accidents in Germany. Based on provisional results, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was a decline of 4 people compared with September 2019. The number of people injured was up by 0.6% to roughly 36 200 in September 2020 compared with the same month a year earlier.
*Wiesbaden – Cidade na Alemanha
3. Mark an X TRUE or FALSE according to the text. (Marque um X no verdadeiro ou falso de acordo com o texto.)
The Scientist – Coldplay
Come up to meet you, tell you I’m sorry
You don’t know how lovely you are
I had to find you, tell you I need you
Tell you I set you apart
Tell me your secrets and ask me your questions
Oh, let’s go back to the start
Running in circles, coming up tails
Heads on a science apart
Nobody said it was easy
It’s such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh, take me back to the start
I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling the puzzles apart
Questions of science, science and progress
4. Match the words in column A with their meanings in column B.
Column A Column B
(a) Easy ( ) an area of study that uses scientific methods.
(b) Sorry ( ) the ability to feel guilty.
(c) Shame ( ) not difficult to do.
(d) Science ( ) embarrassed or unhappy about something that you did
5. A música “The Scientist”, da banda britânica Coldplay, fala sobre o arrependimento e o perdão. Retire do texto versos em que o eu-lírico
a) descreve uma pessoa;
b) expressa seu desejo em voltar ao passado.
6. Identifique o significado da palavra HARD nas seguintes orações.
a) No one ever said it would be this hard
b) Diamonds are hard.
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