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FILME BIRDMAN

VERB TO BE (SER / ESTAR) 

O verbo “to be” pode expressar dois significados: ‘ser’ ou ‘estar’. Logo, tanto para dizer que eu sou um professor (I am a teacher), quanto para dizer que eu estou na escola (I am at school), deve-se utilizar o verbo “to be”.


O verbo “to be” no presente se conjuga em ‘am’, ‘is’ e ‘are’.

No passado ‘was’ e ‘were’.


Segue tabela:

 

  Present simple

I

am

 

 

You/We/They

 

He/She/It

 

are

 

is

 

 

 

 

         PAST SIMPLE

 

I

 

was

 

 

You/We/They

 

He/She/It

 

were

 

was

 

 

 

Birdman or (The unexpected virtue of ignorance)


Assista a um trecho do filme 'The Birdman' e completa com a forma correta do verbo ‘To be’ (is, are, was or were).

Lesley: And he ______ yelling, I love you, I love you bitch! What do you do with a love like that?

Ralph: That ___ not love and you know it. Why do you insist on calling it love?

Lesley: You can say what you want, but I know what it ________.

Ralph: What about you Nick? Does that sound like love ?

Nick: Look, I ____ the wrong person to ask. I only heard the man´s name mentioned in passing. I would know. You´d have to know the particulars. I think you ____ saying love _____ absolute.

Ralph: Yeah, the kind of love I ______ talking about ______ …You don´t try and kill people.

Lesley: It ______ love, Mel. To Ed it ______.   I don´t care what anyone says. He ___________ ready to die for it.

Ralph: Ask her what he did after she left him?

Lesley: He shot himself in the mouth, but he screwed that up, too. Poor Ed!

Ralph: Poor Ed, my ass! The guy _______ dangerous.

Laura: How did he screw up shooting himself in the mouth?

Ralph: He used to carry this . 22 . We lived like fugitives then.

Nick: Fugitives ____ scared, you know? Fugitives ____ on the run. Can you give more of that? You know, fear?

Ralph: Great Idea! We lived like fugitives then. I never knew if he ______ going to come out from behind a bush, or a car and just start shooting. The man was crazy! He ______ capable of anything!

Laura: Christ, what a nightmare.

Ralph: He used to call at the hospital and say: “Son of a bitch, your days ______ numbered”.


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 AGENDE UMA AULA EXPERIMENTAL GRATUITA DE INGLÊS OU ESPANHOL.

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