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1) Activities Manual pgs 87-89 (4-8); p. 90 (4-12); p.91 (4-13; 4-14)

2) Ponto de Encontro website “practice exercises” lesson 4: AP4-1 A&B; AP 4-2 A&B; AP 4-4

Wednesday class will focus on the past tense pretérito perfeito verb forms and use.

Between Monday evening and Wednesday class, I’d like for you to do some exercises on the preterit tense (simple past, pretérito perfeito)

I will send a pdf by email to help introduce these verb conjugations.

For now,  here are the regular -ar, -er, and -ir verb conjugations in the preterit tense, as well as the conjugation for the verb ir (very irregular, but highest frequency verb in this tense)

Regular -ar verb in pretérito perfeito: falar

eu falei (pronounced fall-eh)

você/ele/ela/o senhor/a senhora falou (pronounced fall-oh)

nós falamos

(note that the nós form is THE SAME as present tense. In Portugal there is an accent on the second vowel)

eles / vocês / as senhoras  falaram

REGULAR -ER VERB in pretérito perfeito: BEBER

eu bebi

você / ele / ela / o senhor bebeu

nós bebemos

eles / vocês / os senhores beberem

REGULAR -IR VERB in pretérito perfeito: ASSISTIR

eu assisti

ela assistiu

nós assistimos

elas / eles / vocês / as senhoras / os senhores assistiram

Here are the exercises, to start with, that I’d like you to do to practice the preterit:

1) Activities Manual pp 92 – 93

2) Ponto online lesson 4 “practice exercises” AP 4-6 A & B