Review: Present Perfect or Past Simple?

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O Present Perfect Tense é usado para indicar ações que ocorreram em um momento não especificado no passado. Nesses casos, o importante não é determinar quando as ações foram realizadas, mas destacar seus efeitos no presente.

Read the fragments below and do exercises 1, 2 and 3.

I. ... public interest in race has skyrocketed.
II. The issue of race in Brazil has moved to the center of the social-policy agenda.
III. ... the whole idea sounded preposterous and highly unlikely just a few years ago.
IV. ... social policies have begun to explicitly promote social integration of blacks and mulattos.

1. Which fragments refer to finished actions that happened at an unspecified time in the past and have consequences in the present? *

3 points

2. Which fragment refers to an action that happened at a specified time in the past? *

5 points

Fragment IV

Fragment II

Fragment III

Fragment I

3. What is the expression used in the fragment? *

5 points

Complete the sentences below with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses. Use the Present Perfect or the Past Simple.

4. During the colonial period, the colonists (bring) hundreds of thousands of African slaves to work in the sugar plantations. *

5 points

bringed

brought

has brought

have bringed

5. Rio de Janeiro State University - UERJ (adopt) racial quota policies since 2002. *

5 points

have adopted

adopted

adopt

has adopted

6. The Supreme Court of Brazil (approve) the adoption of racial quota policies in higher education institutions across Brazil i 2012. *

5 points

approved

approve

has approved

have approved

7. Cities like São Paulo (develop) into multicultural and multiethnic places as a result of centuries of international immigration. *

5 points

developed

develop

have developed

has developed

8. Princess Isabel (proclaim) the abolition of slavery in Brazil on May 13, 1888. *

5 points

has proclaimed

have proclaimed

proclaim

proclaimed

9. Since Brazil (abolish) slavery in 1888, its laws (be) racially neutral. *

5 points

abolished - have been

has abolished - were

abolished - were

has abolished - have been

10. Find the time expressions in the sentences from exercises 4, 5, 6, 8 and 9. *

5 points

Read the cartoon below and choose the correct item that answers the following questions.

11. In what historical period is the scene depicted in the cartoon set? *

5 points

The Age of Enlightment (17th - 18th centuries), a cultural movement of intellectuals, first in Europe and later in the American colonies.

The Age of Discovery (15th - 17th centuries), a period during which Europeans explored Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania.

12. How does the colonizer address the native inhabitants? *

5 points

Politely

Rudely

13. What is the colonizer´s real intention? *

5 points

He wants to assimilate the culture of the native inhabitants.

He wants to impose the culture of his country on the native inhabitants

14. What is the tone of the cartoon? *

5 points

Sad

Ironic

Which verb forms complete the following sentence about the topic of the cartoon?

15. During the European colonization of the Americas, explorers _______________ control of the native inhabitants´ land and _________________ their culture and ideologies on them. *

5 points

took - imposed

have taken - have imposed

Você sabe a diferença entre imigração (immigration) e emigração (emigration)? Imigração é o movimento de entrada de estrangeiros em um país de forma temporária ou permanente e emigração é a saída de indivíduos do país.

Read the statements and the graph below. Then do exercises 16-19.

I. A large proportion of immigrants in recent decades were originally Brazilian emigrants. The 2000 census revealed that two thirds of all immigrants between 1990 and 2000 were Brazilian citizens who had previously lived abroad. II. In addition to North America and Europe, at the beginning of the 1980s Japan became the third major migration destination for Brazilians. Of these main destinations for emigrants, only Japan had recruited Brazilian workers.

16. O gráfico acima ilustra o trecho I ou II? Como o gráfico e esse trecho se relacionam? *

5 points

17. When did each action happen? *

4 points

First action

Second action

The 2000 census reveals that two thirds of all immigrants between 1990 and 2000 are Brazilians.

Brazilian citizens leave the country to live abroad.

Japan becomes the third major migration destination for Brazilians.

Japan recruits Brazilian workers.

18. The Past Perfect Tense (had lived/had recruited) is used in the statements to refer to something that happened *

5 points

before another action in the past

after another action in the past

19. What is the structure of the Past Perfect Tense? *

5 points

auxiliary verb had + main verb in the Past Participle Form

auxiliary verb had + main verb in the Past Simple Form

20. Complete the text below with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses. Use the Past Simple or the Past Perfect Tense: "Public awareness of prejudice based on skin colour 1. __________ (be) slow to develop due to the social structures that 2. __________ (grow) over the centuries and deeply rooted paternalism. Until the 1980s the government 3. _________ (deny) responsibility for human rights violations such as racism or even the existence of racism. Only at the beginning of the 1990s was there open dialogue between the government and various civil society groups, which 4. __________ (lead), in 1995, to the elaboration of the "National Programme of Human Rights" (Programa Nacional de Direitos Humanos, PNDH)." *

8 points

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