Teste o seu domínio dos tempos verbais em inglês com a transcrição da fala de despedida de Obama
Vale a pena conferir o conteúdo — e também a forma — do último discurso de Barack Obama, que deixa a presidência dos EUA no dia 20 de janeiro de 2017.
Confira uma transcrição da fala a seguir e preencha as lacunas para testar seus conhecimentos de tempos verbais em inglês. A fonte é o site oficial da Casa Branca:
1. “Those conversations are what have____ (to keep) me honest, and ____ (to keep) me inspired, and ____ (to keep) me going.”
2. “And it was a neighborhood not far from here where I ____ (to begin) _____ (to work) with church groups.”
3. “Whether we have _____ (to see) eye-to-eye or rarely ____ (to agree) at all.”
4. “And I was still ____ (to try) ______ (to figure) out who I _____ (to be), still ______ (to search) for a purpose in my life.”
5. “It’s the conviction that we are all ______ (to create) equal, _____ (to endow) by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.”
6. “It’s what ____ (to lead) patriots ______ (to choose) republic over tyranny.”
7. “Not that our nation has _____ (to be) flawless from the start, but that we have ____ (to show) the capacity to change.”
8. “If I had ____ (to tell) you eight years ago that America _____ _________ (will/ to reverse) a great recession (…), you _____ ____ _______ (might/ to have/ to say) our sights _____ ______ (to be / set ) a little too high.”
9. “Then workers of all shades are going ____ ____ ________ (to be/to leave / to fight) for scraps.”
10. “I’m ________ (to ask) you _______ (to believe). Not in my ability ______ (to bring) about change — but in yours.”
Confira o discurso:
Respostas:
- kept / kept / kept
- began / working
- seen / agreed
- trying / to figure / was / searching
- created / endowed
- led / to choose
- been / shown
- told / would reverse / might have said / were set
- to be left fighting
- asking you to believe / to bring
