Unit 2 – Blessings and

Misfortune
Prime Time 2 – 2021
Teacher Bruno
Vocabulary
• Arrangement (Arranjo) • Taste (Gosto, Sabor, Paladar, Experimentar,
• Carve (Fatiar) Saborear)
• Peel (Descascar, Pelar) • Luck (Sorte, Acaso)
• Sibling (Irmão) • Destiny (Destino, Fado, Sorte)
• Roast (Assar) • Fate (Fado, Destino, Sorte)
• Setup (Organização) • Curse (Maldição, Praga)
• Melting Pot (Caldeirão) • Good Will (Boa Vontade)
• Harvest (Colheita) • Grace (Graça)
• Meal (Refeição) • Tradition (Tradição)
• Recipe (Receita)
Useful Expressions
• To get along with (Dar-se bem com)

• That’s enough (Basta)

• Who’s going to take care of...? (Quem vai cuidar de...?)

• I can’t handle that (Eu não consido lidar com isso)

• Done deal! (Negócio feito!)

Past Continuous or Progressive
We use the past progressive or continuous to say that something was in progress (going on) around a
particular past time (Usamos o past progressive ou continuous para dizer que algo estava em andamento
(acontecendo) em um determinado período do passado).
Form:
Pronoun or Noun + was/were + main verb (-ing form)
Examples:
What were you doing at 8:00 o'clock yesterday evening? - I was watching TV. (NOT What did you do...? - I
watched TV)
When I got up this morning the sun was shining, the birds were singing... (NOT ... the sun shone, the
birds sang...)

*Negative: wasn’t / weren’t

 More examples:

When we got to the house yesterday morning, the baby was drinking a bottle.
He was waiting at home all day when she sent him the message.
Alan was cutting the grass the other day when the snake appeared.
I wasn’t sleeping when you got home late last night.
What were you doing when the alarm went off last night?
Were you calling me when I emailed you this afternoon?
What was she doing this time yesterday?
I was having a great conversation with him when his ex-girlfriend interrupted it.
I was having a terrifying dream when the alarm clock went off at six o'clock this morning.
While we were playing tennis, it started to rain.
Past Perfect
The basic meaning of the past perfect is ‘earlier past’. A common use is to ‘go back’ for a moment when we are
already talking about the past, to make it clear that something had already happened at the time we are talking about
(O significado básico do past perfect é "passado anterior". Um uso comum é para ‘voltar’ para um momento em que
já estamos falando sobre o passado, para deixar claro que uma alguma coisa já tinha acontecido no momento em que
estamos falando).
Form:
Pronoun or Noun + had + main verb (past participle)
Examples:
During our conversation, I realized that we had met before. (NOT I realized that we met before OR ... have met
before.)
When I arrived at the party, Lucy had already gone home. (NOT ... Lucy already went home. OR Lucy has already gone
home.)

*Negative: hadn’t.
 More examples:

She stayed up all night because she had received bad news.
They lost many of the games because they hadn’t practiced enough.
Anthony had met Ryan before you introduced him to us at the party.
You had studied Italian before you moved to Rome.
She had established her company before 2008.
He had never played football until last week.
The teacher asked if we had studied for the exam.
The usher asked if we had purchased our tickets.
She had just left the scene when the ambulance arrived.
He had just put the dog on the leash when we got there.
Past Perfect Continuous or Progressive
We use the past perfect progressive or continuous to talk about actions or situations which had
continued up to the past moment that we were thinking about, or shortly before it (Usamos o past
perfect progressive ou continuous para falar sobre ações ou situações que continuaram até o momento
passado em que estávamos pensando ou pouco antes dele).
Form:
Pronoun or Noun + had been + main verb (-ing form)
Examples:
At the time we had been living in the caravan for about six months.
when I found Mary, I could see that she had been crying.
I went to the doctor because they had been sleeping badly.

*Negative: hadn’t
 More examples:

They had been flying for eight hours before they finally reached New York.
We had been struggling for several years before the business finally took off.
He wasn't hungry because had been eating all day long.
He had been partying all night, so he fell asleep in class.
You had been sitting there for more than an hour before he arrived.
Janet had been working there for almost a year when they fired her.
We were thirsty because we had been working out outside in the heat.
Luke gained weight because he had been eating pizza three times a day.
Martha had been walking three miles a day before she broke her leg.
He had been drinking milk out the carton when Mom walked into the kitchen.