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SIMPLE PAST

Identificando o Simple Past:

a) sentença com verbo (terminação -ed)


John worked until midnight last week.
John has worked until 8 p.m. this week (Present Perfect)

b) sentença com did, didn’t.

c) quando o verbo for irregular, consultar se ele está na 2ª


coluna da lista de verbos.
An Englishman living near Sheffield recently had a most unlucky day’s
fishing. He was standing on a low bridge when he had the misfortune to
knock his tin of bait into the river. Leaning over the side of the bridge, he
tried to hook the tin and pull it out of the river. As he did so, his car keys fell
out of his pocket and disappeared in the water.
Feeling thoroughly annoyed with himself and his luck, the fisherman lent
over the bridge to try to see where his keys had gone. As he did so, the
bridge collapsed and he fell into the river. This was the last straw. The
fisherman crawled out of the river and went back to his car. There he
discovered that he had locked the doors and could not get in. His anti-thief
lock had immobilized his car. There was nothing left for him to do but walk
sadly home.
THE LION AND THE MOUSE
One day, a lion was sleeping in the forest. A shy Mouse accidentally came
upon the Lion. When she saw the Lion, the Mouse was so scared, she ran
across the Lion’s nose. The Lion woke up suddenly. Angrily, he put his
huge paw on the Mouse. The poor Mouse begged, “Please let me go.
Don’t kill me and some day I will repay your kindness!” The Lion laughed.
How could a Mouse ever help a Lion? But he let the Mouse go. Some days
later, the Lion got caught in a hunter’s net. His angry roars filled the forest.
The Mouse heard the Lion. She ran to the Lion and bit through the net with
her teeth. In this way, the Mouse set the Lion free. “Now you know: even a
tiny Mouse can help a Lion,” she said.
Flight 9525, an Airbus A320, took off at 10:01 a.m. on
March 24 from Barcelona, bound for Dusseldorf. The plane
had 144 passengers and six crew members on board.
According to French aviation accident investigators, the
plane began descending from its cruising altitude of 38,000
feet at 10:31 a.m. It lost contact with French radar at an
altitude of 6,175 feet at10:40 a.m., the investigators said.
Transponder data shows that the autopilot was
reprogrammed by someone inside the cockpit to change
the plane’s altitude from 38,000 feet to 100 feet, according
to Flightradar24, a website that tracks aviation data. The
aircraft crashed in a remote area near Digne-les-Bains in
the Alpes de Haute-Provence region.
The Grasshopper and the Ants
A grasshopper spent the summer singing and dancing in the sun. One day he
saw an ant hurrying by. She looked very tired and hot.
“Why are you working on such a lovely day?” asked the grasshopper.
“I’m collecting food for the winter,” said the ant, and went on her way. She
joined all the other ants carrying food to their store. The grasshopper sang
another song and carried on dancing.
When the winter (1) ______ and there was snow on the ground, the
grasshopper had nothing to eat. He was very hungry so, he went and asked the
ants to give him some food.
“We worked all summer to collect our food. What did you do?” said one of the
ants.
“I (2) _______,” replied the grasshopper.
“Well, if you sing all summer and do no work,” said the ant, “then you must
starve in the winter.”
Fill in the blanks with the suitable verb forms, respectively
a) is coming / sings
b) comes / is singing
c) was coming / sang
d) came / was singing
“…Angelina: I think it was mutual. I had never held a baby in my life. There
were about 14 kids in the orphanage, and he was the last child I saw. They put
him in my arms and he was still asleep. Then they gave him a bath, and he
stayed asleep. Then I sat with him and he opened his eyes and just stared at
me for the longest time. Then he smiled…”(Adapted from English2Go nº8)
Most of the sentences are in the past tense. It means that the actions are
a) habitual.
b) still happening.
c) completely finished.
d) in the past but have a link to the present.

The US space organization, NASA developed and built the first space shuttle.
The shuttle was the first rocket to fly into space, come back to earth and fly
again. The first shuttle to fly in space was Columbia. It took off on the 12th April
1981. In January 1986 the shuttle Challenger exploded at take-off. Everyone on
the shuttle died.
All verbs below are in the past, except
a) died
b) built
c) come
d) took off
According to this cartoon, we conclude that
a) she herself set the table.
b) the boy set the table by mistake.
c) the boy made a grammar mistake.
d) she could help him do the housework

A long time ago, people ______ a way to create a nice smell. They put nice-
smelling wood or leaves into a fire. A nice smell ________ through the smoke.
The correct verbs to fill in the blanks are, respectively
a) find / comes
b) found / came
c) has found / came
d) had found / comes
“Do not ride your bicycle around the corner”, the mother _____ her daughter
when she ______ seven.
Fill in the blanks with the suitable option.
a) had told / was
b) told / had being
c) was telling / is
d) has told / had been

Last summer I took a plane to Munich to Rome. From the airport we went to our
hotel by bus. We stopped at a small restaurant for a quick meal. The driver
parked the bus behind the restaurant. Nobody could find the bus and the driver,
so we waited outside the restaurant for an hour. The driver was walking through
the small park near the restaurant that we did not know. So we were very angry
with him. But my holidays were great.

The verbs, underlined in the text, are in the


a) simple past.
b) simple present.
c) present perfect.
d) past progressive.
The Horse and the Donkey
One day, a man went on a journey, and took with him his horse and his
donkey. He put a very heavy load on the donkey’s back, but nothing on
the horse’s back. After a while, the poor donkey _______ the horse to
help him. But the horse, who was very selfish, refused.
Further along the road, the donkey started to feel very tired, and again
_______ the horse to take some of the load. And again the horse
________________.
Finally, the donkey fell exhausted at the side of the road and died. So
the man took the whole of the heavy load and put it on the horse’s
back, together with the skin of the dead donkey, and they continued on
their journey.

The correct words to fill in the blank are, respectively


a) ordered / said / told
b) spoke / asked / replied
c) asked / asked / refused
d) said / begged / answered

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