Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Modal Verbs

Review of Modal Verbs



Em inglês, verbos auxiliares modais são verbos que só ocorrem na presença de outro verbo, são defectivos na conjugação e não têm passado nem futuro (com exceção do can que tem passado e condicional).



Veja aqui uma lista dos principais:


  • Can - Could

- significado de ability: I can speak English

- significado de permission: Can I smoke here?

- significado de possibility: It can happen to anyone. (Esta ocorrência é mais rara e o significado de possibilidade aqui se confunde com o de capacidade. Para possibilidade é sempre melhor usar may e might.)


Could funciona como passado e como futuro do pretérito de can:

- passado: I couldn't speak English before Going To England. / I couldn't go. / You couldn't smoke in the presence of your parents at that time. –

- futuro do pretérito: You could have called me. Could you do me a favor?




  • May

- significado de permission: May smoke here?

- significado de possibility: It may rain today.

- para expressar um desejo (to express a wish): May all your dreams come true. (Esta última ocorrência é mais rara, restrita a uma linguagem mais formal.)



  • Might

- significado de remote possibility: It might rain this weekend.


  • Should
- significado de advice: You should study more.



  • Shall
- significado de suggestion (predominante no dialeto britânico): Shall we go to the movies?



  • Must

- significado de obligation: You must stop smoking.

- significado de prohibition: You mustn't get out of bed

- significado de inference, logical deduction: He must be very rich.



Há quem classifique o will, o would e o used to como verbos modais. Nós preferimos deixar o will e o would como auxiliares do future e do conditional, e o used to como habitual, equivalente ao pretérito imperfeito do português. Leia aqui sobre o used to.


Veja essa concept map sobre Modal Verbs:





Exercises

http://www.englishpage.com/modals/interactivemodal1.htm


http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-modals.php


http://usefulenglish.ru/grammar/modal-verbs-exercise-eight


http://www.esl-classroom.com/grammar/modals2.html




Monday, 3 September 2012

PRESENT PEFERCT SIMPLE x CONTINUOUS x PAST SIMPLE






  • PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE and PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS
  • PAST SIMPLE and PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE


Click on the links below and do all the exercises in your notebook. 






Monday, 9 July 2012

RELATIVE CLAUSES & PRONOUNS

Relative Clause and Pronouns 
                                                                 


 http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/relative-clauses 


http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/anglais/exercises/relpron2.htm 

http://englishisfun07.blogspot.com.br/2008/03/unit-6-relative-clauses.html


http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/pronouns/relative_pronouns2.htm

Friday, 10 February 2012

USEFUL SITES FOR EVERYBODY




http://www.ctpim.org.br/englishroom/index.html

Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Friday, 9 December 2011

USEFUL DICTIONARIES ONLINE

USEFUL ONLINE DICTIONARY



ENGLISH-ENGLISH DICTIONARY

http://dictionary.reference.com/

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

http://www.ldoceonline.com/

http://www.merriam-webster.com/

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/


BILINGUAL DICTIONARY

http://michaelis.uol.com.br/


SLANG AND STREET ENGLISH


http://www.urbandictionary.com/

http://onlineslangdictionary.com/

Sunday, 2 October 2011

Newspapers on the net

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