Lesson:Essentials/40

Grammar

Hoje veremos os seguintes verbos irregulares:

base form	simple past	past participle
dream	dreamt / dreamed	dreamt / dreamed
drink	drank	drunk
drive	drove	driven
eat	ate	eaten
fall	fell	fallen

Vejamos agora alguns exemplos:

• I dreamt about you last night.
  • Sonhei com você na noite passada.
• She drank a lot of water after the game.
  • Ela bebeu bastante água após o jogo.
• They drove for 5 hours.
  • Eles dirigiram por 5 horas.
• We ate the most delicious cake at her birthday party.
  • Comemos um bolo super delicioso na festa de aniversário dela.
• He fell and broke his leg.
  • Ele caiu e quebrou a sua perna.

Note! O verbo dream geralmente vem com a preposição about. Isso é porque quem sonha, frequentemente, sonha com algo. Às vezes, em vez de about, usamos a preposição of. A rigor, tanto faz usar uma preposição ou a outra, porém, alguns nativos fazem a distinção de usar dream of quando se está sonhando acordado, pensando em ou desejando algo, e dream about quando se sonha enquanto dorme.

Challenge Na frase "We ate the most delicious cake at her birthday party." escolhemos traduzir the most delicious cake por um bolo super delicioso. Traduzindo literalmente ficaria "o bolo mais delicioso", porém, isto não funciona muito bem em português.

Explique na parte de comentários no final da lição a razão de traduzir a expressão da primeira forma. Aqui vai uma dica, tem algo a ver com a palavra hyperbole.

EXERCISES

1. Fill the blanks with the correct form of the verbs in parenthesis:

1. She always _______ (dream) of being rich when she was a kid.
2. The guests ________ (drink) all the soda last night.
3. My father _______ (drive) his new car yesterday.
4. My sister _______ (eat) all my chocolate!
5. The kid _______ (fall) when he was trying to climb the sofa.
6. I wasn't looking at you when you _______ (fall) off the seat.
7. I was hungry, so I _______ (eat) everything.

2. Give the past tense of the verbs below:

• listen
• water
• dream
• drink
• fall
• burn
• clean
• watch
• bring
• build
• buy
• choose

Pronunciation

Examples
lot	odd
wash	knot
god	mob
watch	pot
clock	top

Vocabulary

• To watch - watched
• To see - saw
• To listen - listened
• To work - worked
• Television
• Radio
• Stereo
• Monitor
• Keyboard
• Mouse
• Computer
• Control
• Video-game
• Energy
• Shelf
• Cellphone
• Plugs
• Cables
• Devices
• Player
• Nowadays
• Modern
• Old
• Years

- What is on Tv?
- It's on the news.
- It is working correctly.
- It is broken.
- Electronic devices
- DVD player
- Many years ago
 

1) Look at the photos and answer the questions, the teacher may ask you to write down your answers or to answer orally:

1. What are the people on this photo doing?
2. What kind of games are they playing?
3. What electronic devices are there in the picture?

1. What do you think is happening in the picture?
2. Do you think that nowadays we still watch TV in the same way that they are doing in the picture?
3. Describe the picture and the objects in it.

Review

1. Make sentences with the given uncountable words making them countable.Follow the example.

( water ) - I bought four bottles of water.

1. chocolate
2. sand
3. butter
4. sugar
5. bread

3. Make questions and answer them using the following verbs in the past tense:

dream, drink, drive, eat, fall

4. Change the sentences from affirmative to negative:

1. She drove him to school last night.
2. John drank a lot of water yesterday.
3. Mike bought a lot of electronic devices yesterday.
4. There was a good movie on tv yesterday.
5. They ate a lot at my house yesterday.
6. The baby fell down.
7. My mom watched a play.
8. She saw you.

5. Describe the following picture.^help

Conversation

1. Do you like to use electronic devices? Which ones?
2. What's the best electronic invention in your point of view? Why?
3. Do you think people are lazier because of these new inventions? Why?
4. Give 5 examples of electronic devices that you have at home.
5. Which electronic devices do you use the most? What for?
6. Is it possible to live without these electronic devices nowadays? Why (not)?
7. Will we become more or less dependent on these devices in the future? Why?
8. What is a good age for a person to own his/her first cell phone? Why?
9. What kind of toys will the children in the future use?
10. Are you picky about the kind of computer, cell phone, video games you buy?

Extra Vocab

Electronics

• Television, TV, TV set
• Antenna
• Remote control
• Controls
• Button
• Record
• Stop
• Pause
• Play
• Rewind
• Fast forward
• Plug
• Cord
• Prong
• Outlet
• Extension cord
• Stereo
• Dial
• Speaker
• Radio
• Headphones
• Power cord
• Battery
• Microphone, mike
• Circuit braker
• Fuse
• Record player, phonograph
• CD
• Record
• Cassette, audio cassette

Electronics

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