Student’s name : __________________.

Class : __________

VERBOS NO PASSADO
A . Put in am/is/are/was/were. Some sentences are present and some are past.

1. Last year she was 22, so she is 23 now.

2. Today the weather ______ nice, but yesterday it ______ cold.
3. I ________ hungry. Can I have something to eat ?
4. I _________ hungry last night, so I had something to eat.
5. Where _________ you at 11 o’clock last Friday morning ?
6. Why __________ you so angry yesterday?
7. ‘Where _________ the children?’ ‘I don’t know. They ______ in the garden ten minutes ago.”

Dica : Para que você consiga identificar no exercício A qual o verbo to be que deverá ser usado corretamente na frase,
faça uma associação com as palavras chaves, ou seja, com os advérbios presentes em cada oração. Na frase número 1,
por exemplo, temos “last year”(ano passado) usado em frases no passado e “now”(agora) usado em frases no presente.

B. Put in was / wasn’t / were / weren’t.

1. We didn’t like our hotel room. It was very small and it wasn’t very clean.
2. Kate got married when she __________ 24 years old.
3. I phoned you yesterday evening but you ____________ at home. Where ___________ you ?
4. “ ________you at home at 9.30?’ ”No, I ________ . I __________ at work.

C. Write questions.

2. _________________________ ( friendly ? )
3. __________________________ (difficult ?)
4. __________________________ (expensive ?)
5. __________________________ (interesting ?)

Dica : No exercício C , para que você consiga elaborar a frase corretamente, é importante compreender a
informação dada nas frases escritas com verbos no passado. A partir daí será importante raciocinar como usar as
palavras (que estão dentro dos parenteses) na frase interrogativa criada , a fim de que haja nexo com a resposta dada
nas frases com verbos no passado. O objetivo deste exercício é elaborar frases interrogativas com o verbo to be .

D. Complete these sentences. Use one of these verbs in the Past Simple : die / enjoy / finish / happen / live /
open / play / start / stay / watch

1) Yesterday evening I watched television.

2) The concert last night ______________at 7.30 and ________________ at 10 O clock.
3) The accident ___________________ last Sunday afternoon.
4) Mozart _________________ from 1756 to 1791.
5) We _________________ our holiday last year. We ________________ at a very good hotel.
6) It was hot in the room, so I __________________ the window.
7) The weather was good yesterday afternoon, so we _________________ tennis.
8) William Shakespeare ________________________ in 1616.

Dica : O objetivo do exercício D é encaixar os verbos die / enjoy / finish / happen / live / open / play / start / stay /
watch nas frases , de forma a estabelecer coerência entre o significado do verbo e o sentido da frase. O princípio de tudo é
saber o significado dos verbos listados acima para que se possa raciocinar qual a frase mais adequada onde o verbo poderá
se encaixar.
 E. Write Sentences about Present and the Past (Yesterday / Last Week etc) .

1) He always goes to work by car. Yesterday he went to work by car.

2) Bill often ____________ (lose) his keys. He ___________ his keys last Saturday.
3) I ____________ (write) a letter to Jane every week. Last week I _____________ a letter to Jane.
4) She _____________ (meet) her friends every evening. She _________________her friends yesterday evening.
5) I usually _______________ (read) two newspapers every day. I ________________ two newspapers yesterday.
6) They ________________ (come) to my house every Friday. Last Friday they ________________to my house.
7) She usually ______________(go) to the cinema on Sunday. She ________________ to the cinema last Sunday.
8) Tom always _____________ (have) a shower in the morning. Tom _________________a shower this morning.
9) He usually ______________ (do) his shopping on Monday. He __________________his shopping last Monday.
10) Ann often _______________ ( take) photographs. Last weekend Ann _______________photographs.

No exercício E Observe que o verbo GO (infinitivo) usado na primeira frase He always goes to work by car
” é o mesmo verbo usado na segunda frase Yesterday he went to work by car. A diferença é que o verbo GO na primeira
frase está no tempo presente conjugado na 3ª pessoa do singular, enquanto na segunda frase, ele foi escrito no
passado . Observe neste exemplo de que se trata de verbo irregular . Por essa razão, a escrita WENT é totalmente
diferente da escrita GOES .

F. You are asking somebody questions. Write questions with did…?

1) I watched TV last night. And you ? Did you watch TV last night ?
2) I enjoyed the party. And you ? ______________________________.
3) I had a good holiday. And you ? ______________________________.
4) I got up early this morning. And you ? ______________________________.
5) I slept well last night. And you ? ______________________________.

Observe (no exercício F) que na forma afirmativa o verbo principal sofre alteração na sua escrita. Porém ,
ao escrever a frase na forma interrogativa, o verbo principal não sofre alteração na sua escrita, ou seja, ele é escrito
conforme sua forma básica devido o mesmo ser acompanhado pelo verbo auxiliar DID.

G. Write questions with who/ what/how/why…?

1) I met somebody. Who did you meet ?

2) Harry arrived. What time __________________________?
3) I saw somebody. ____________________________ ?
4) They wanted something.
5) The meeting finished. Pat went home early.
6) We had dinner. What time _______________ ?/ What did ___________________?
7) It cost a lot of money. ___________________________ ?

Observe que a diferença entre o exercício G e o exercício F está exatamente na presença do pronome
interrogativo. Quando elaboramos uma frase interrogativa que contenha um pronome interrogativo, é importante saber
que este virá escrito no início da frase , ou seja, antes do verbo auxiliar.

H. Put the verb in the correct form of the past ( positive, negative or question).

1) I played (play) tennis yesterday but I didn’t win (not /win ) .

2) We ______________ (wait) a long time for the bus it ________________ . ( not / come ).
3) That’s a nice shirt. _________________________? (you/buy)
4) She __________(see) me but she ___________________ (not/ speak) to me.
5) “ ____________________ ( it/ rain) yesterday?’ “No, it was a nice day.’
6) That was a stupid thing to do. ____________________( you/do) it ?

Observe que na forma negativa , a frase deve conter o auxiliar did seguido de not, que pode vir abreviado
ou não. Veja : did not ou didn’t. Observe também que o verbo principal, o que acompanha o verbo auxiliar deve estar
escrito na sua forma original , ou seja, no infinitivo. Lembre-se de que o verbo principal só irá mudar sua escrita no
passado na frase afirmativa, já que o mesmo não virá acompanhado de verbo auxiliar. =