Eu era, nós era = I was, We was

Olá Pessoal!

Hoje meu post é direcionado para todos aqueles que encontram dificuldades para entender como é formado o tempo passado na gramática da língua do Tio Sam. Vou explicar de forma bem simples através de um texto "legendado", pois ao longo de todos esses anos ensinando Inglês, cheguei a conclusão que quanto mais tentamos explicar menos os alunos entendem esse tempo verbal ...rs...

A legenda mostra as diferenças nos verbo usados (regulares, irregulares e o "to be") e como eles são usados em suas formas (afirmativa, negativa e perguntas).

Vale lembrar que o método da "decoreba" se faz necessário, uma vez que não há outra forma de saber quando um verbo é regular ou irregular.

Depois é só praticar através de muita conversa a respeito de eventos passados. Se preferir escreva um redação, um poema ou algumas linhas sobre seu passado e mande para meu e-mail (rosanahelping@hotmail.com). Terei muito prazer em corrigí-los e assim contribuir um pouquinho para que você aprenda esse tempo verbal.

Bjk e bom feriado a todos!

Legenda:

Blue = verb to be

Green = regular verbs

Red = irregular verbs

Orange = auxiliar do tempo passado (*), usado nas perguntas sempre e nas respostas curtas (afirmativas e negativas) e nas respostas longas negativas.

(*)Exceto quando o verbo é o "to be"

Texto:

" I am going to talk about my grandmother.

She was a great woman. She was born in Italy. She lived in Genova. She went to school in the morning but she didn't like because she hated waking up early. She was a good student but she wasn't good at math and she talked a lot during the classes.

In Italy she didn't have many friends but when she was 9 years old her family moved to Brazil and here she had a lot of new friends.

She loved Brazil. When she was 18 years old she got married and had 3 children. She taught Italian in a language school and her students always asked her: - "DID you like living in Italy, teacher ? Were you happy there? How about your parents? Were they happy there too?"
And she always answered: "Yes, I did. I liked living in Italy! I was very happy and my parents were very happy too!"

My grandmother died 15 years ago but I still miss her a lot."