English class – November 15th

Student : Jayana

Teacher: Brunno

Grammar
O Present Continuous ou Present Progressive (em português,
presente contínuo ou progressivo) é um tempo verbal usado para
indicar ações que estão em progresso no presente; no
momento da fala.

Ele é empregado para falar sobre situações temporárias, ações

contínuas que estão acontecendo.

I am studying now.
I am not studying now.
Are you studying now?

Gerund como sujeito da oração

Driving too fast is dangerous.

Walking is good for you.

Gerund após preposição

She is good at painting.

Thank you for coming

He learns music by listening to the chords
Gerund após verbos específicos

I like cooking.[ I like to cook]

He enjoys walking.

They hate milking cows

Personal Possessive
pronoun adjective Possessive pronoun
(pronome (adjetivo (pronome possessivo)
pessoal) possessivo)
Mine [o meu/a minha;os
I My
meus/ as minhas]
You Your Yours
He His His
She Her Hers
It Its Its
We Our Ours
You Your Yours
They Their Theirs

Os adjetivos possessivos são aqueles que se assemelham aos

pronomes possessivos do português e à forma como usamos. Ou
seja, nas frases, eles precisam que um substantivo venha logo
depois. Confira no exemplo:

He is my father. (Ele é meu pai.)

Is this your house? (Essa é sua casa?)

Os pronomes possessivos têm a função de substituir a presença

do substantivo, tanto na fala quanto na escrita.
 Thisis my house. [That house is your house] That
is yours. (Esta é a minha casa. Aquela é a sua.)

Her father is tall. Mine is short. (Seu pai é alto. O meu é

baixo.)

His car is new. Ours is very old. (Seu carro é novo. O

nosso é muito velho.)

Comparativos em inglês

PASSAGE 4
How do modern innovations stack up with those of the past? Some
economists, such as Robert Gordon of Northwestern University, argue that
driverless cars, 3D printers and so on pale into insignificance compared with the
fruits of previous industrial revolutions, such as mass production. That, they
think, explains a prolonged productivity slowdown in America and other rich
economies that the financial crisis deepened. But what about everywhere else?
Developing countries are, by definition, some distance from the
technological frontier. One consolation of their position is the vast
backlog of past innovations that remain for them to exploit more fully .
Their growth depends more on imitation than innovation. A country where
most people still ride scooters does not have to worry if the next Tesla fails to
arrive on schedule.
Comparativo em inglês
Adjetivos curtos
Old
I am older than you.
Short
I am shorter than you.
Adjetivos longos
Intelligent [ My son is more intelligent than me.]
Beautiful

Superlativo
Adjetivos curtos
Tall
I am the tallest in my family.
The United States is the richest country in the world.
Adjetivos longos
My son is the most handsome boy in the school.

5. The word “backlog” in passage 4 means:

A) crisis.
B) waste.
C) danger.
D) reserve.
E) evidence.

A different kind of banker

Dr. Muhammad Yunus, a banker and economist, was born in
Bangladesh in 1940. He studied economics at Dhaka University in
Bangladesh. He taught for a few years and then went to the United States
to continue his studies. He returned home to Bangladesh in 1972 and
started teaching again.
One day in 1976, Yunus visited a poor village in his home country.
There he met some women who wanted to make furniture, but they
didn’t have enough money. He decided to help them and gave them $27
of his own money. They made and sold the furniture, made a profit and
then returned the money to Dr. Yunus. At that point, he saw how very
little money could help a lot. He decided to help poor people. A bank
loaned him the money.
 In 1983, Yunus started the Grameen Bank. This bank loans money to
poor people. Dr. Yunus and Grameen Bank received the 2006 Nobel Peace
Prize for their work with the poor.
In 2009, the bank had 7.95 million customers, and 97% of these
customers were women. The success of the bank inspired other people in
many different countries to start similar banks. Yunus once said,
“Conventional banks look for the rich. We look for the absolutely poor”.

Elephant Keepers
Bill: Wow! This is an interesting article.

Sue: Oh, baby elephants! Look at them! They’re so cute! Where are their mothers?

Bill: Hunters killed them.

Sue: That’s terrible!

Bill: Yeah, it is. These men are elephant keepers. They work at a place for orphan
elephants in Kenya. They feed the baby elephants, take care of them, and even play
soccer with them.

Sue: Hmmm. Elephant keeper. That’s an interesting job.

Bill: Yes, but it isn’t easy. The keepers need to feed the baby elephants every three
hours.

Sue: Really? What about at night?

Bill: They need to feed them at night, too. The keepers sleep in buildings with the baby
elephants. . . . Listen to this quote from the article. One of the keepers says, “Every
three hours you feel a trunk reach up and pull your blankets off. The elephants are our
alarms.”

Sue: That’s funny. Smart elephants! I want to read that article.