Aula 5 - Terminação ING: Gerúndio e present participle

Gerúndio (verbo + ing)

• Ações que acontecem antes ou ao mesmo tempo que o verbo

principal,

I love dancing. (Eu amo dançar.)

• Ações concretas/reais, já concluídas ou que se referem a hábitos,

ou ainda que expressem gosto pessoal:

He misses skating at the park. (Ele sente falta de andar de

skate no parque.)

I’ll buy a new book only when I finish reading one. (Só vou comprar
um livro novo quando terminar de lerum.)

• Sujeito da frase:

Driving makes me nervous. ([O ato de] Dirigir me deixa nervoso.)

• Complemento do verbo “to be”:

What I hate the most is doing laundry. (O que eu mais odeio

é lavar roupa.)

• Após preposições:

She is good at convincing people. (Ela é boa em convencer as

pessoas.)

• Após phrasal verbs:

I ended up buying a new cell phone. (Acabei comprando um

celular novo.)
We look forward to attending the concert. (Estamos ansiosos
para ir ao concerto.)
Present participle (verbo + -ing)

Funcionam como adjetivo, indicam ação, movimento, percepção,

passagem de tempo, explicar uma razão. Usados para as
flexões continuous (Present continuous, Past continuous, Present
perfect continuous )

I am studying English and Korean. (Estou estudando inglês e

coreano.)

She has been working here for seven years. (Ela trabalha aqui há
sete anos.) → Uma ação que começou no passado e continua até o
tempo presente.

They went shopping yesterday. (Eles fizeram compras ontem.)

We heard someone singing. (Ouvimos alguém cantar.)

What an amazing movie! (Que filme maravilhoso!) → adjetivo

Don’t waste your time procrastinating! (Não perca seu

tempo procrastinando!)

Knowing it would rain soon, he brought an umbrella. (Sabendo que

choveria logo, ele trouxe um guarda-chuva.)

Em poucas palavras:

Gerúndio → função de substantivo

Present Participle → função de verbo ou adjetivo

Activities

Inglês – Vocabulary – Vocabulary – Fácil [20 Questões]

01 - (UNIFAE PR)
Learn the Art of Negotiation
Paul Wineman & Associates, Inc. offers one and 2-day customized
workshops on negotiating. Learn new techniques, tactics and
strategies to help effectively negotiate anything.
Purpose:
• To negotiate not just the price, but the "PACKAGE" that surrounds
that price.
• To learn the tactics used in effective negotiating.
• To recognize the value of these techniques for internal negotiating
within your own organization.
Benefits:
• Participants will become more effective buyers and sellers in their
work and personal lives.
• Participants will gain the skills necessary to deal with internal
negotiations at work: increases productivity.
One Day Workshop
Topics Covered:
• Introduction to negotiation
• The four keys to short term competitive negotiations
• Cost Breakdowns
• Internal VS External Negotiations
• Buyers / Sellers Tactics
Included:
• A leader who is an experienced in negotiate a contract.
• Role-play participation in customized negotiation cases.
• A simple planning check list to use in all negotiations
Adapted from:<www.trainingnegotiation.com> Access in Oct 25,
2004.
After you read the text “Learn the art of negotiation”. One of the
alternatives below contains nouns which are frequently used with
the verb to negotiate. What is it?

a) deal – direction – solid

b) plan – business – case

c) result – deal – money

d) result – direction – plan

e) contract – price – deal

TEXTO: 1 - Comum à questão: 2

WATER WORRIES
Overdosing of antibiotics can do more than damage your health. It
can damage the environment too.
Water samples recently taken from the Ohio River and two of its
tributaries contained trace amounts of commonly prescribed
antibiotics like penicillin, tetracycline, and vancomycin. The drugs
apparently came from farms and hospitals located upstream. The
drugs were also present in area tap water. Antibiotics leave the
bodies of animals and humans as waste, which is apparently how
they entered the water.
The low levels of antibiotics are not considered harmful to humans.
However, the findings raise concerns about so-called superbugs —
bacteria that are immune to antibiotics. Scientists believe
overexposure to antibiotics helps resistant bacteria become more
widespread. This is the first time it has been demonstrated that
antibiotics can leech into the water supply.
The science project was conducted by 17-year-old high school
senior Ashley Mulroy, who also showed that while typical
wastewater treatment plants don’t eliminate the drugs, activated
charcoal filtration does. Mulroy’s innovative research earned her a
water science prize from the engineering firm ITT Industries of White
Plains, New York.
(CURTIS, Ellis. Popular Science: water worries. May 2001, page 42)

VOCABULARY
amounts – quantidades
bugs – micróbios
leech – “penetrar”
tributaries – afluentes
waste – resíduos, lixo
widespread – muito espalhadas

02 - (CEFET PR)

“While typical wastewater treatment plants don’t eliminate the drugs,

activated charcoal filtration does.”

The best translation for the underlined word in the sentence above
is:
a) indústrias.
b) plantas.
c) projetos.
d) usinas.
e) mapeamentos.