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Aprenda tempos verbais com o último discurso do presidente Obama - Companhia de Idiomas

Aprenda tempos verbais com o último discurso do presidente Obama

Independentemente de suas posições políticas, vale a pena você assistir e ler o último discurso do presidente Obama, que deixa a Presidência dos EUA no dia 20.01.2017.

 

E se você precisa melhorar seu inglês, aproveite para testar seus conhecimentos de tempos verbais, com os trechos abaixo.

1. “Those conversations are what have____ (to keep) me honest, and ____ (to keep) me inspired, and ____ (to keep) me going.” 


2. “And it was a neighborhood not far from here where I ____  (to begin) _____ (to work) with church groups.”

3. “Whether we have _____ (to see) eye-to-eye or rarely ____ (to agree) at all.”

4. “And I was still ____ (to try) ______ (to figure) out who I _____ (to be), still ______ (to search)  for a purpose in my life.”

5. “It’s the conviction that we are all ______ (to create) equal, _____  (to endow) by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.”

6. “It’s what ____ (to lead) patriots ______ (to choose) republic over tyranny.” 

7. “Not that our nation has _____ (to be) flawless from the start, but that we have ____ (to show) the capacity to change.”

8. “If I had ____ (to tell) you eight years ago that America _____  _________ (will/ to reverse) a great recession (…), you _____ ____  _______ (might/ to have/ to say) our sights _____  ______ (to be / set ) a little too high.”

9. “Then workers of all shades are going  ____ ____ ________ (to be/to leave / to fight)  for scraps.”

10. “I’m ________ (to ask)  you _______ (to believe). Not in my ability ______ (to bring) about change — but in yours.”

Fonte:  whitehouse.gov

Answers: 
1. kept / kept / kept

2. began / working
3. seen / agreed
4. trying / to figure / was / searching
5. created / endowed
6. led / to choose
7. been /  shown 
8. told / would reverse / might have said / were set
9. to be left fighting
10. asking you to believe / to bring

Escrito por Rose Souza. Publicado em 08.01 na coluna semanal da Exame.com. Editado por Rose Souza para o blog da Companhia de Idiomas 

Rosangela Souza é fundadora e sócia-diretora da Companhia de Idiomas e ProfCerto. Graduada em Letras e Tradução/Interpretação pela Unibero, Business English na Philadelphia, USA. Especialista em Gestão Empresarial com MBA pela FGV e PÓSMBA pela FIA/FEA/USP.  Desenvolveu projetos acadêmicos sobre segmento de idiomas, planejamento estratégico e indicadores de desempenho para MPMEs. Colunista do portal da Catho Carreira & Sucesso, RH.com e Exame.com.   Professora de Técnicas de Comunicação, Gestão de Pessoas e Estratégia na pós graduação ADM da Fundação Getulio Vargas/FGV.


E se você quer se aprofundar neste assunto, fale com a gente. A Companhia de Idiomas tem professores que vão até a sua casa ou empresa. Fale com: roselicampos@companhiadeidiomas.com.br

 
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