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Activities: “How to use the different past tenses in Brazilian Portuguese?”

By: Fabiana Dametto Oliveira

Activity 1: Choose the right past tense

Choose the correct past tense to complete each of the sentences below.

  1. Por que você mudou de canal? Eu        o filme.
    Select your answer
  2. Quando eu        em casa, …
    Select your answer
    …as luzes        acesas.
    Select your answer
  3. O avião        às duas horas da tarde.
    Select your answer
  4. Antes ela        de geografia, mas agora prefere biologia.
    Select your answer
  5. Eles        a reunião há dez minutos.
    Select your answer
  6. Hugo        almoçar, mas já está com fome.
    Select your answer

Activity 2: Carla and Antônio travel the world

Carla and Antônio decided to leave work to travel the world. Read the interview that Ana did with them, and fill in the blanks using the verb in parentheses in the most appropriate past tense: