Questão PET - Read the following excerpts:

1 – Read the following excerpts: 

I. “As a child, Flávio showed his talent for drawing and painting […].” 

II. “[…] in 1976, he published his album of drawings.” 

III. “I studied Visual Communication at university […] and included more models in my work.”

a) Which of these statements is the correct one?  

The words in bold tell us that the actions, states and events happened...

A  … at a continuous period of time in the past.  

B  … at a specific time in the past.  

C  … in an undefined time at the past.

We use the Simple Past to talk about actions, states, and events that happened and finished at a specific time in the past. Although the time is not necessarily mentioned, it can be imagined by the speaker. When we want to mention the time, we use expressions such as “last week”, “yesterday”, “in + year”, among others.

b) Are the words in bold regular verbs or irregular verbs? How do you know?

c) Are the verbs in sentence III formed the same way as the ones in the other examples? 

In the Simple Past, regular verbs always end in -ed, did, not, didn’t. 

To make negatives, use did + not + base form of the verb. In oral language, we usually use the contracted form didn’t. 

Flávio Melo didn’t finish the course of Sociology.

d) Write the correct combination of numbers-letters and try to infer the rules: 

I. showed/published 

II. studied III. Included 

A. When the verb ends in consonant + -y, we rub out -y and add -ied. 

B. When the verb ends in -e, we just add -d. 

C. When the verb ends in a consonant sound, we add -ed.

RESPOSTA: 

a) The words in bold tell us that the actions, states and events happened in a specific time in the past.

b) Regular. They end in -ed.

c) No.

d) I-C; II-A; III-B.