Aula 7 -

1. Past Continuos Tense

2. Partes do corpo e discussão do vídeo sobre autoestima.

 O Past Continuous Tense é formado da seguinte maneira:

« passado do verbo be + verbo principal com ing »

Exemplos:

 I wasn’t watching TV when the phone rang. (Eu não estava

assistindo TV quando o telefone tocou)
 What were you guys doing when she arrived? (O que vocês
estavam fazendo quando ela chegou?)
 What were you talking about? (O que você estava falando?)
 She fell down awkwardly while she was running. (Ela caiu
de mau jeito enquanto corria.)

Lembre-se que o passado do verbo be pode ser was ou were, vai

depender do pronome/pessoa.
Exemplos:
 We were studying when dad and mom got home. (A gente
estava estudando quando papai e mamãe chegaram em casa.)
 When I got up this morning, my dog was barking. (Quando eu
acordei hoje pela manhã, meu cachorro estava latindo.)
 What were you doing at 8 o’clock yesterday? (O que você
estava fazendo às 8 horas de ontem?)
 In 2001, they were living in New York. (Em 2001, eles estavam
morando em Nova Iorque.)
 They weren’t studying for the test. (Eles não estavam
estudando para a prova.)
 While I was doing the dishes, my sister was doing the laundry.
(Enquanto eu estava lavando a louça, minha irmã estava
lavando a roupa.)

Usos:

» Use o Past Continuous para descrever uma ação que esteja em

progresso (esteja acontencedo) no passado.

 Last night, at 8 we were watching TV. (Ontem à noite às 08,

estávamos assistindo TV.)
  At that time, she was living in France. (Naquela época, ela
estava morando na França.)

» Use o Past Continuous para descrever uma ação que estava

acontecendo quando uma outra ação aconteceu.

 While I was going to work, it started to rain. (Enquanto eu

estava indo para o trabalho, começou a chover.)
 My cell phone rang when I was taking a shower. (Meu celular
tocou quando eu estava tomando.)

» Use o Past Continuous para descrever duas ações ou mais que

aconteceram ao mesmo tempo no passado.

 While we were watching TV, dad was reading a book.

(Enquanto assistíamos à TV, papai lia um livro.)
 They were washing the car while I was cooking. (Eles lavavam
o carro enquanto eu cozinhava.)

» Use o Past Continuous com a palavra always para descrever

uma ação que acontecia repetidas vezes no passado.

 He was always making mistakes. (Ele estava sempre

cometendo erros.)
 They were always sleeping. (Eles estavam sempre dormindo.)

Activity
1. Complete the spaces with the correct option in the past
continuous.

My brother and sister __________ video games until 1 a.m.

yesterday.
a) was 1playing
b) are playing
c) were playing
The telephone rang while we __________ TV.
a) were watching
b) was watching
c) is watching
Daniela __________ language for five hours.
a) is teaching
b) was teaching
c) were teaching
When I was in hospital three nurses __________ after me all the
time.
a) was looking
b) were looking
c) had looked.
 Partes do corpo
Link dos vídeos:
Dove Real Beauty Sketches | You’re more beautiful than you
think (6mins)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=litXW91UauE (Legenda
Inglês)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf2w4HPPTGo (Legenda
Português)
Partes do corpo em inglês – Vocabulário
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z53H-Uhs-EE

– The Body / O Corpo:

 Head – Cabeça
 Hair – Cabelo
 Neck – Pescoço
 Arm – Braço
 Torso – Tronco
 Leg – Perna
 Chest – Peito

– The face / O rosto

 Eye – Olhos
 Nose – Nariz
 Mouth – Boca
 Tongue – Língua
  Ear- Ouvido
 Cheek – Bochecha
 Chin - Queixo
 Eyebrow – Sobrancelha
 Eyelid – Pálpebra
 Eyelash – Cílio
 Lips – Lábios

– The Arm and the Hand / O braço e a mão

 Finger – Dedo
 Palm – Palma
 Wrist – Pulso
 Forearm – Antebraço
 Elbow – Cotovelo
 Upper Arm – Braço superior
 Shoulder – Ombro

– Parts of the hand / Partes da mão

 Thumb – Dedo Polegar
 Index finger – Dedo Indicador
 Middle finger – Dedo Médio
 Ring finger – Dedo Anelar
 Little finger – Dedo Mínimo
 Nail – Unha

– The leg and Foot/ A perna e o pé

 Knee – Joelho
 Calf – Panturrilha
 Ankle – Tornozelo
 Foot – Pé
 Toe – Dedo do pé
3.After you finish watching the vídeo about self esteem, please, write
your feelings about your body, in english. Write what you like and also
what you don’t like about it, describe using the names that you’ve
learned.
4.What do you think about the vídeo? Why do you think those people
were describing themselves as a different way of what they really are?