Book 2 by Karlos Sousa

MÉTODO MUITO FÁCIL

BOOK two

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Authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Acknowledgments I would like to thank everybody who helped me develop this material. First of all God, second of all my family and third of all but not less important my students who allowed me to teach them using this material and helping me with the perfection of it.

Carlos Ney

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Lesson One Affir mative I was You were He was She was It was We were You were They were

Negative

I was not You wer e not He was not She was not It was not We wer e not You wer e not They wer e not

Translate the sentences below into English form.

Inter rogative Was I ? Were You ? Was He ? Was She ? Was It ? Were We ? Were You ? Were They ?

Shor t For m

I wasn’t wer en’t H e w asn’t Você era (estava) _____________________________________________________________________________________ She wasn’t It wasn’t Ele era (estava) ______________________________________________________________________________________ We wer en’t Ela era (estava) _______________________________________________________________________________________ You wer en’t T hey wer en’t Isto era (estava) ______________________________________________________________________________________ Eu era (estava) _______________________________________________________________________________________ You

Nos éramos (estávamos) ______________________________________________________________________________ Vocês eram (estavam) _________________________________________________________________________________ Eles ou Elas eram (estavam) _________________________________________________________________________

Put the sentences below into Affirmative form.

I wasn’t a good student in the past. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ You weren’t at home yesterday. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ He wasn’t happy at the party two days ago. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

She wasn’t happy with her grades at school. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The dog wasn’t barking the whole night. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We weren’t speaking in German in the meeting. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ You weren’t studying for the English test last Saturday. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ They weren’t welders, but they knew how to weld at the oil platforms. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Complete the sentences with the right verbs.

Mary and Rachel ____________________ good friends at college.

My dog ______________________ biting my neighbor’s butt. We _____________________ making pizzas at home on Sunday. It ___________________________ scratching the sofa. Michael _______________________ excited with his new car.

Correct the mistakes.

Was we good friends in the past? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ It were barking yesterday. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ They was speaking in English with Americans. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Robert and Paul was driving their cars. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ My computer weren`t good yesterday. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Put this small text below into simple past.

George is an engineer. He always studies hard. He is the student number one of his school. He is an easygoing person, smart, intelligent and he and his youngest brother are addicted in playing video game and soccer.

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Complete these sentences. Use the correct form of be with a suitable adjective from the list:

afraid

thirsty

hot

hungry

tired

cold

He has worked hard all day, so he _________________. They had eaten nothing all day, so they ________________. Ann was standing on the chair. She ___________________ of mice. I wanted a drink of water; I ____________________. It ______________. “Why didn’t you put a coat on?” It _____________ in here. “You’d better turn down the heating.”

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Lesson two

wish I could come back in time at least 20 years ago, I would do everything again. When I was 18 years old, I used to travel around the world. I knew all different kinds of culture, different kinds of food, kinds of accent, kinds of weather and so on. I can’t believe I was a professional top model, all the journalists used to chase me and I couldn’t forget to mention the paparazzis. I couldn’t even get a breath without a picture taken or even camera lens. I remember I was a prisoner of the success. Now I am an old fashion woman, my body isn’t good looking anymore, but despite the fact of the journalists and paparazzis I would like to come back in time for sure.

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Build 4 sentences using would. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________

Unscramble the sentences below.

could he 10 years back time in.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ buy a car you would you had if one million?

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Mark like would to around travel the world.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ they could wish they rich become.

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ buy could you a house new for me?

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ could I go to the mall wish with you.

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Complete the sentences below.

If I had an opportunity to be the president of Brazil for a month, I would... __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ If I had 2 billions bucks, I would... __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ If I could change the world, I would... __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ If I study English and do my homework, __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ If I pay all your bills, you will..

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Complete the sentences below.

Despite the crisis of Brazil it is... ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ They love each other, although... ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t study for the text despite... ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Despite my dog doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t eat too much, it is... ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Although he is very famous he is... ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ They are working at the same company for about 10 years despite...

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On the left are some common ways of starting sentences using would. Can you match them with the sentences endings in the right-hand columns?

(1) It’d be nice if…

(

) it started to rain.

(2) If you’d just like to…

(

) tea, actually.

(3) It wouldn’t surprise me if…

(

) piece of apple pie?

(

) follow me.

(4) She would say that, …

(5) You’d think…

(

) the sun comes out.

(6) Would you like some…

(

) wouldn’t she?

(7) I’d prefer…

(

) she owned the place.

(

) coffee?

(8) Would you like a…

Complete the sentences with the affirmative, negative or interrogative form of used to and the words in brackets. Use contractions where possible.

used to / didn’t use to /

Did they use to / used to / did you use to / didn’t use to / used to

David Beckham ______________________________________________ play for Manchester United. We _____________________________________________have a computer, but we do now. __________________________________________ (they) work together? That restaurant ________________________________be a clothes shop. She _______________________________ like him, but now they’re married. Where ___________________________________________ (you) go to school? There ____________________________________________be a police station here. I _________________________________________ like vegetables, but I do now.

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Lesson three

ary is very thin nowadays but 5 years ago she had 250 pounds. She used

to eat too much every day, so the doctor told her: ‘’ if she doesn’t stop eating this way, she will die with a heart attack ‘’. Mary started suddenly a hard diet. She only ate tomatoes, spring greens, lettuces, carrots, beetroots and light soup. After some weeks, she wasn’t in shape yet. She came back to the doctor and the doctor told her to go to the gym to work out and keep on a diet. She stayed at the gym working out for almost 7 months burning fat and she got to stay in shape. Mary told to everybody that if you really want to be

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healthier and in shape, you only need to have will of power and struggle hard.

Additional words: weight, sit up,

pull up, push up,

to stretch, chubby, whale, extra large, to be desperate, to gain weight, to lose weight.

Make a dialogue according to the text on lesson three.

Andrea: ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Mary: ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Andrea: ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Mary: ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Andrea: ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Mary: ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Andrea: ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Mary: ______________________________________________________________________________________________

Build 6 sentences with these words:

on a diet, shape,

push up, will of power, burn fat, gain weight.

1. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. _______________________________________________________________________________________________

6. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Imagine if you were overweight and your boyfriend or girlfriend says to you he or she will break up with you if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t burn fat and become in shape, what would you do? _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________

Pretend you are a personal trainer and your doctor tells you need to lose 100 pounds in 4 weeks. What kind of exercises would you do? What kind of food would you eat?

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________

Make a small composition about the theme above. (at least 5 lines)

Build a dialogue between an overweight person and a personal trainer!

Make a list of vegetables you’ll have to buy to prepare your salads while you are on a diet. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Match the two parts of the sentence and link them with but:

(1) It was a lovely day

(

) …not to Edinburgh.

(2) She was not waving

(

) …the weather improved.

(

) … someone sold us two tickets.

(

) … drowning.

(5) We had planned to take the train

(

) … I married a Glaswegian.

(6) It was cold at first

(

) …there weren’t any seats.

(7) The theater was full

(

) …only the green ones.

(8) I’ve not only been to Glasgow

(

) …windy.

(3) I’ve been to Glasgow (4) I like olives

but

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Lesson four

17 arol bought a brand new LCD TV high definition with 42 inches. It is

a fancy TV and she wanted to buy one since she watched an advertising

on a Talk show. Carol worked hard for 8 months and now her house is full of friends. They always meet themselves there to watch some interesting movies and some sitcoms. Carol is addicted in eating popcorn. They pop many packages of microwave popcorn every movie they watch. They usually go to the rental movie store to rent westerns, comedies, thriller, horror, science and drama movies. After watching the movies they debate about it, everybody goes back home and Carol has a messy house to clean. Additional words: where is the remote control, have you seen the remote control, where did you put the remote control, turn up the volume, turn down the volume, turn on the TV, turn off the TV, home theater, channel.

Continue this small crazy story... Once a girl worked a lot and saved money for 2 years to buy a brand new LCD TV. The technician had just installed it in her house and her cat jumped from the table onto the TV and the TV fell down on the floor and smashed...

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Make a small paragraph using these words: rental movie store, messy, remote, 42 inches, addict, western movie.

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Would you buy a brand new LCD TV if it was 50% off but with a small damage on screen?

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________

If your neighbor had bought a LCD TV 60 inches and starts showing it off and provoking you because yours was only 42, what would you do? _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________

What do you think about people who have portable TV on cellphones and watch it using loud volume only to brag off?

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________

What is your favorite kind of movie?

Put the respective word in parentheses below using these words:

show off, jealous, 60 inches, messy, addicted, advertising. Your LCD TV is very fancy and brand new but mine is bigger than yours. ( _________________________) Michael bought a new car so he only wants to talk about it and says it was very expensive. ( _________________________) Man, I was watching a commercial on TV and I felt like buying chocolates. ( _________________________) Robert should not go to the party with us, he saw his girlfriend talking with her ex boyfriend. ( _________________________) After finishing the party everybody went home and only my friend and I needed to clean the house. ( _________________________)

He canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see any advertising beer on TV because he is trying to stop drinking alcohol but

itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being very hard. ( _________________________)

Write a small composition about a day you or someone you know bought a brand new TV or car.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Give your opinion about show off people and addicted people.

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Answer the following questions. Give short answers:

Did you go to the cinema last week? Yes, ____________________________________________________________ Are you buying a new TV? No, ________________________________________________________________________ Have you sold your old house? Yes,

___________________________________________________________________

Is your new house near the coast? No,

______________________________________________________________

Does Ellen come to watch the films? Yes, ____________________________________________________________ Did you buy the popcorn? No, __________________________________________________________________________ Can you bring some soda? Yes, _________________________________________________________________________ Will you help me to clean this messy room? No,

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Lesson five

raig is a guy who worked a lot to

achieve his goals in the past. He studied too much. Now he is making a good money. He knows how to speak English and Spanish and he is thinking of learning French too. Ten years passed since he had these dreams. His two children grew up. They are studying at the University now. Craig has two beautiful girls and he is very jealous. When a boy hits on one of his daughters he becomes very angry!

Craig always remembers when he was struggling to achieve his goals. Sometimes he was thinking on giving up, but he got everything he had planned, bought a beautiful house, paid all his bills, bought a farm house and a big boat. He even traveled around the world last month. If you have dreams and goals to achieve,

Additional words: fought, achieved, made, knew, spoke, dreamed, became, thought, gave up, to bring up, champion, upset.

move on and fight like a warrior.

Answer these sentences below.

Where did you grow up? _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Did you achieve any goal you wish in your life? _________________________________________________________________ What kind of things make you upset?

____________________________________________________________________________

What would you do if a strong guy was hitting on your girl? _________________________________________________

Do you agree itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s normal to have a little jealous to maintain a relationship? ______________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Do you remember the last time you were very angry and why? _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Make a dialogue between Craig and one of his daughters. He saw her kissing a punk boy in front of her university!

Craig: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Daughter: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Craig: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Daughter: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Craig: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Daughter: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Craig: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Daughter: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Continue this story: Once Craig was studying very hard to get good grades at school and...

Make a composition about goals you have for the next 5 years and how you will get to accomplish them! (At least 7 lines)

Build a paragraph using these words: a lot, learn, champion, struggle and fought.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________

Choose a job from the list to complete each of the sentences below.

Soldier

lawyer

mechanic

waiter

doctor

taxi-driver

cook

teacher

architect

She designs buildings. She is an ______________________________________ Alex fixes cars. He’s a _________________________________________________ My brother works in a school. Is he a ______________________________? I have my own taxi. I am a

________________________________________?

Jessy is studying medicine. She’s going to be a ____________________ Elton works with a law firm. He’s a __________________________________ My uncle is in the army. How long has he been a _________________? Thomas works in a restaurant. Is he a ____________ or a ___________?

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Lesson six

nce upon a time there was a guy that was teaching English at an English course. He

had never hit on any students, but unfortunately one of his students fell in love with him and they started to chat on the internet and calling each other every day. The girl was eleven years younger than him. They started dating and were in love. But not always things went well and the girl’s parents disapproved the relationship. They said he was very old, wasn’t from the same city and lived alone. She tried to date the teacher but her parents were disturbing her and used to tell her he was a bad guy, that she would suffer too much. After some months they were smothering her, they even prohibited her to date him and started to blackmailing her saying: “ Darling, we love you, we are old and almost dying, he will return back to his homeland and abandon you.” The girl was tired of struggling

and gave up the date. Actually if she really loved the guy they could be happy forever.

Which was the main factor for the braking up of those two lovers? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What was the profession of the guy?

Additional words:

taught, _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Have you ever fall in love for any teacher?

called,

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ to deceive, What was the age difference between the girl and the teacher?

deceived,

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ touch. Have you ever hit on any teacher?

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Has any teacher or friend of yours hit on you? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Would you date anyone 11 years older than you? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Continue this crazy story! Once upon a time there was an ugly boy with a sweet heart who loved a spoiled girl who ignored him. Every time he approached to hit on her... ___________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________

Build a small paragraph using these words: struggling, gave up, blackmail, homeland.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________

Build a dialogue between a teacher and a fallen in love student.

Teacher:________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Student:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Teacher:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Student:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Teacher:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Student:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Teacher:________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Student:_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What would you do if your parents disapproved your relationship with a ten years younger person than you?

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

Make a small composition talking about someone you truly loved! (At least 4 lines)

_____________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________

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Put the word never into the correct place in the sentences below:

The baby cries at night. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The neighbors are at home. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ My parents have been oversea. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Take your things and come back here again! _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I really enjoyed summer camp.

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ho discovered the American

continent? Were they the Spanish? Were they the Portuguese? Or were

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Lesson seven

they the Vikings? According to the history it was Christopher Columbus, but when he arrived in the American continent it already had Indians living here. So where did they come from? place inhabited! There are interesting things about cities like Manchu Pitchu where the Aztecs lived. They knew the art of flying for example. They

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Actually it is not possible to discover a

already knew how to build with cement and bricks, they already knew about astrology and even knew about a savior. When Bizzarrus arrived in the American continent, the Indians bowed to him and worshiped all the settlers thinking they were God because they had a belief that one day a white and beard man would come back to save them. The Indians really did think they were that God, so how did the Indians know about him? The Mayas and the Aztecs had baptism fountains and were very intelligent, so in your opinion, who really discovered the American continent?

Additional words: flew, built, believed, saved, peoples.

In your opinion who discovered the American mainland? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Why do you think the Indians worshiped the settlers? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Do you think Jesus could visited that continent and taught his doctrine? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Why were the Aztecs so intelligent? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Do you believe Aztecs were cannibals? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Fill in the gaps with the words:

believe, beliefs, worship, inhabited, Savior, cement. 1- Most of American people are Christians and they ____________________________ in Jesus. 2- The most ____________________ country in the world is China. 3- The house broke down because the bricklayer forgot to use ________________________ 4- Before Christ coming to the earth, the planet didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any ________________________ 5- Some religious people _______________________ that the earth will finish on fire rocks. 6- Muslims ________________________ are different from Christians. Do you agree with terrorism as a way of proclaim a religion? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Why Jews didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe in the first coming of Jesus Christ? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Do you believe when a bomb man burst himself there is any reward waiting for him such as many virgins girls in heaven ? ___________________________________________________________________________________

Build a dialogue between a bomb man and a priest!

Bomb man: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Priest: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Bomb man:

________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Priest: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Bomb man: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Priest: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ bomb man: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Priest: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Bomb man: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Put the words in brackets in the correct place in the sentence.

( is) Who my teacher? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (is) Can you tell me who my teacher? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (was) Who that girl I saw you with yesterday night? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (is) Guess who coming to dinner! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ (are) I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care who you! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Notes

Additional words: police station,

gun, handcuffs, freedom.

ast month a clumsy boy had some arrangements in the morning. He had to pay

some bills, deposit and withdraw some money at the bank. All of sudden while he was in the line, a masked man with a machine gun shouted:

“- Hands up, it is a robbery! Nobody moves! I only want all the money inside this

backpack and nobody will be hurt.” The police arrived and started a deal with him, but he had a clumsy boy like hostage and threatened to shoot him if they don’t get him an armored car. After 4 hours of dealing, the robber decided to let the boy go

and got arrested. The boy was pale and scared so he went back home thinking how lucky he was not to be shot at and when he was crossing the street to get home, a

16 wheel truck came furiously towards his direction with no brake and ran over him leaving him mushed on the floor.

Why does it have too much crime in our city nowadays? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Do you think police are well trained to combat the organized crime? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Do you feel safe when you leave your home to work or to study? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Do you think militians are necessary to protect our neighborhood? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Lesson eight