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TO BE, THERE TO BE, 
PRESENT CONTINUOUS
VERB TO BE
O verbo to be equivale aos verbos ser e/ou estar em português. 
A conjugação do verbo to be no presente simples (simple present) é:
AFFIRMATIVE-AFIRMATIVA
I am I’m Eu sou/estou 
You are You’re Você é/está 
He is He’s Ele é/está 
She is She’s Ela é/está 
It is It’s Ele/Ela é/está
We are We’re Nós somos/estamos
You are You’re Vocês são/estão 
They are They’re Eles são/estão
NEGATIVE-NEGATIVA
I am not I’m not ---x--- 
Eu não sou / 
estou
You are not You’re not You aren’t Você não é / está 
He is not He’s not He isn’t Ele não é / está 
She is not She’s not She isn’t Ela não é / está 
It is not It’s not It isn’t
Ele/Ela não é / 
está 
We are not We’re not We aren’t
Nós não somos / 
estamos
You are not You’re not You aren’t
Vocês não são / 
estão 
They are not They’re not They aren’t
Eles não são / 
estão 
INTERROGATIVE-INTERROGATIVA
am I? Eu sou / estou?
are you? Você é / está? 
is he? Ele é / está?
is she? Ela é / está?
is it? Ele/Ela é / está? 
are we? Nós somos / estamos?
are you? Vocês são/ estão?
are they? Eles são / estão?
Forma afirmativa: You are a student.
Verbo depois do sujeito.
Forma negativa: You are not (aren’t) a student. 
Verbo depois do sujeito com “not”.
Forma interrogativa: Are you a student?
Verbo antes do sujeito.
Exemplos: 
I’m Brazilian. 
She’s a very intelligent girl. 
They are engineers at Petrobras. 
You are on the 10th � oor. 
I’m not in São Paulo now. I’m in Rio. 
He isn’t a good soccer player. 
We are not doctors, we are engineers. 
Are you a scientist at Instituto Vital Brasil? 
Are they near the beach?
Is it a good Hospital?
VERBOS THERE IS, THERE ARE
Os verbos  There is, There are estão no tempo presente e 
equivalem ao verbo haver no sentido de existir em português. There 
is é usado antes de coisas ou pessoas no singular, e there are é usado 
antes de coisas ou pessoas no plural.
As formas dos verbos there is e there are são: 
AFFIRMATIVE-AFIRMATIVA
There is There’s há/existe- Usado no singular 
There are --x-- há/existem- Usado no plural
NEGATIVE-NEGATIVA
There is not There isn’t
There are not There aren’t
INTERROGATIVE-INTERROGATIVA
Is there?
Are there?
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Exemplos:
There is much information on TV.
There are many students in that school. 
There isn’t any car in the garage. 
There aren’t many people in the stadium. 
Is there much sugar in the pot?
Are there three rooms in that house?
VERBOS NO PRESENT CONTINUOUS/
PROGRESSIVE
O Present Continuous ou Progressive indica uma ação que está 
em progresso no momento da fala. Também pode indicar ações 
temporárias no presente, ações futuras e acontecimentos que parecem 
in� ndáveis no presente (hábitos irritantes). 
A conjugação do “present continuous” é:
AFIRMATIVA NEGATIVA INTERROGATIVA
I am studying (Eu 
estou estudando)
I’m not studying Am I studying?
You are drinking 
(Você está 
bebendo)
You’re not 
drinking (you 
aren’t)
Are you drinking?
He is singing (Ele 
está cantando)
He’s not singing 
(He isn’t)
Is he singing?
She is working 
(Ela está 
trabalhando)
She’s not working 
(She isn’t)
Is she working?
It is raining (está 
chovendo) 
It’s not raining (It 
isn’t)
Is it raining?
We are painting 
(Nós estamos 
pintando)
We’re not 
painting (We 
aren’t)
Are we painting?
You are reading 
(Vocês estão 
lendo)
You’re not 
reading (You 
aren’t)
Are you reading?
They are walking 
(Eles estão 
andando)
They’re not 
walking (They 
aren’t)
Are they walking?
FORMAÇÃO DO PRESENT 
CONTINUOUS OU PROGRESSIVE
We are studying English
Sujeito
Verbo
Auxiliar
Verbo
Prncipal
+
ING
Objeto
Ação ocorre no momento em que se fala.
Exemplo:
What are you doing now? I’m � xing my father’s car.
Listen! Somebody is knocking at the door.
What is that music you’re playing?
Ação temporária que ocorre num período de tempo no 
presente, mas não necessariamente no momento em que se fala.
Exemplos:
Paul is reading a book of Jorge Amado.
The U-2 is performing at Maracanã.
People are eating less meat nowadays.
Indicar uma ação futura.
Exemplo:
Hurry up! The plane is leaving soon.
She is visiting her mother in Niterói tomorrow.
I’m on vacation at the moment, but I’m starting a new course 
next week.
Descreve e enfatiza uma série de acontecimentos in� ndáveis. 
Nesse tipo de ação geralmente usamos advérbios como “always, 
forever or constantly” e outros advérbios de frequência. 
Exemplo:
She’s always trying to show that she knows more than everyone 
else.
I’m constantly having to remind you to tidy up your things.
Formação do su� xo “ing” com alguns verbos:
• Verbos de uma só sílaba, terminados por consoante precedida 
de uma única vogal, dobram essa consoante para o acréscimo 
de –ing:
beg begging
hit hitting
stop stopping
• Verbos teminados em –e perdem o –e para o acréscimo de –ing: 
bake baking
love loving
rise rising
• Verbos terminados em –ee conservam essa terminação para 
o acréscimo de –ing:
agree agreeing
� ee � eeing
see seeing
• Verbos terminados em –ie perdem essa terminação e recebem 
–y antes da colocação de –ing: 
die dying
lie lying
tie tying
• Qualquer verbo terminado em –y é simplesmente acrescido 
de –ing:
obey obeying
study studying
play playing
cry crying
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• Verbos terminados em –l precedido de uma única vogal 
dobram essa consoante para o acréscimo de –ing (regra 
válida para o inglês britânico); quando o –l for precedido 
de duas vogais, a duplicação não é efetuada: 
label labelling
steal stealing
feel feeling
• Verbos com mais de uma sílaba, terminados por consoante 
precedida de apenas uma vogal, dobram essa consoante, 
se o acento tônico recair na segunda sílaba; se não, apenas 
recebem –ing:
begin beginning
permit permitting
master mastering
open opening
EXERCÍCIOS DE
FIXAÇÃO
01. (UFRRJ) Complete the sentence with the correct verb.
“_________biological agents in that tube”. 
a) There is
b) There are
c) Is
d) There is not
e) Is there
02. (EEAR) Choose the best alternative to answer the question below:
“Are you a pilot?”.
a) No, we are.
b) Yes, you are. 
c) No, I am not. 
d) Yes, I weren’t.
03. (EEAR) “An umbrella __________ a very ordinary object.”
Choose the best alternative to complete the blank in the Paragraph:
a) is 
b) were
c) weren’t
d) are
04. “Don’t worry, you’ll get there in time. _____ another train at 11 
a.m.”
a) There
b) It’s
c) There are
d) There is
05. (FAAP) Complete: “_________ many people living in China”.
a) Is there
b) Are
c) There is
d) There are
e) Is
06. (UNIOESTE 2012) Leia.
MICROSOFT IS BUYING SKYPE
One is the giant business, whose software powers more than 
90% of the world’s computers. The other is the � rm, which has 
revolutionised the way many communicate. Now Skype is being 
swallowed up by Microsoft.
It’s just eight years since Skype started helping people to make 
calls over the internet for nothing, and this is the third time it’s been 
bought and sold.
Microsoft has been struggling to prove it can compete with the 
likes of Google and Apple. Now as it tries to make an impact on the 
mobile-phone world, it wants Skype to help it become a bigger force.
Skype is now used by 170 million people around the world (each 
month), not just on their computers, but on the move – on their 
mobile phones and even on their tablet devices.
Microsoft wants to tap in to this connected community, but it’s 
paying a huge price for a business that isn’t even pro� table.
(Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC News. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
language/wordsinthenews/2011/05/110511witn_skype_page.shtml)
Ao se ler “Microsoft is buying Skype”, é correto a� rmar que
a) a Microsoft está vendendo o Skype.
b) o Skype está sendo vendido pela Microsoft.
c) a Microsoft está comprando o Skype.
d) o Skype está se despedindoda Microsoft.
e) a Microsoft está perdendo o Skype.
07. (MACKENZIE 2000) Em inglês, “Você está esperando alguma 
carta?” seria:
a) “Have you been waiting for a chart?”.
b) “Are you expecting a letter?”.
c) “Are you attending any lecture?”.
d) “Are you staying for the lecture?”.
e) “Have you been hoping for a lecture?”.
08. (FAAP 1997) Assinale a alternativa que completa corretamente a 
frase: “The whole world __________ against drugs now”.
a) is � ghting
b) fought
c) had been � ghting
d) has fought
e) � ght
09. (G1 1996) Check the correct answer.
– What ___________ you ___________ now?
– I ________________ my car.
a) do/do - am wash
b) are/do - washing
c) are/doing - am washing
d) do/doing - washing
10. (UNESP 1988) Assinale a alternativa correta.
“Many countries ______ with nuclear reactors.”
a) is experimenting
b) experiments
c) experimenting
d) would experiment
e) are experimenting
EXERCÍCIOS DE
TREINAMENTO
01. (FAAP-1997) Assinale a alternativa que preenche corretamente 
a lacuna da frase a seguir: “In my school ________________ many 
foreign students”.
a) has
b) there are
c) there is
d) have
e) there have
02. (ESFCEX) “We ______ for our English test at the moment”.
a) are studying
b) are study
c) study
d) are studyng
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03. (UEL) “The point __________ exactly where you ________ now”.
As lacunas da frase são corretamente preenchidas pela alternativa:
a) are - is
b) is - is
c) is – are 
d) are – are
e) there is – there are
04. (FGV) Assinale a alternativa correta:
a) “There are a soldier in the hospital.”
b) “There are some soldiers in the hospital.”
c) “There is a lot of soldiers in the hospital.”
d) “There is little soldiers at the hospital.”
e) “There are much soldiers in the hospital.”
05. (FUVEST) Assinale a alternativa que preenche corretamente a 
lacuna:
“__________ little sugar in my juice. I would like more”.
a) Are there
b) Is there
c) There is 
d) There are
e) There aren’t
06. (ITA 2015) Leia.
STICKERNOMICS
Football albums
Got, got, got, got, got, need
THE World Cup is still two weeks away, but for children worldwide 
(plus 6disturbing numbers of adults) the race to complete the Brazil 
2014 sticker book started long ago. 1Panini, an Italian � rm, has 
produced sticker albums for World Cups since Mexico 1970; this year’s 
version has 640 stickers to collect. 7Collecting them is no idle pursuit, 
however. Getting every slot � lled delivers an early lesson in probability, 
the value of statistical tests and the importance of liquidity.
When you start an album, 8your � rst sticker (in Britain, they come 
in packs of � ve) has a 640/640 probability of being needed. 2As the 
spaces get � lled, the odds of opening a pack and � nding a sticker 
you want fall. 9According to Sylvain Sardy and Yvan Velenik, two 
mathematicians at the University of Geneva, the number of sticker 
packs that you would have to buy on average to � ll the album by 
mechanically buying pack after pack would be 899. 11That assumes 
there is no supply shock to the market (the theft of hundreds of 
thousands of stickers in Brazil in April 12left many fearful that Panini 
would run short of cards).
It also assumes that 10the market is not being rigged. Panini 
says that 3each sticker is printed in the same volumes and randomly 
distributed. In a 2010 paper Messrs Sardy and Velenik gamely played 
the role of “regulator” by checking the distribution of stickers for a 
660-sticker album 13sold in Switzerland for that year’s World Cup. Out 
of their sample of 6,000 stickers, they expected to see each sticker 
9.09 times on average (6,000/660), 4which was broadly borne out in 
practice.
Even in a fair market, it is inef� cient to buy endless packs as an 
individual (not to mention bloody expensive for the parents). The 
answer is to create a market for collectors to swap their unwanted 
stickers. The playground is 14one version of this market, 5where a child 
who has a card prized by many suddenly understands the power of 
limited supply. Sticker fairs are another. As with any market, liquidity 
counts. The more people who can be attracted into the market with 
their duplicate cards, the better the chances of � nding the sticker you 
want.
Messrs Sardy and Velenik reckon that a group of ten astute 
sticker-swappers would need a mere 1,435 packs between them to 
complete all ten albums, if they take advantage of Panini’s practice of 
selling the � nal 50 missing stickers to order. Internet forums, where 
potentially unlimited numbers of people can swap stickers, make this 
number fall even further. The idea of a totally ef� cient market 15should 
dismay Panini, which will sell fewer packs as a result. But as in all 
markets, behaviour is not strictly rational. 16Despite entreaties, your 
correspondent’s son is prepared to tear out most of his stickers to get 
hold of Lionel Messi.
(Fonte: http://www.economist.com/news/� nance-and-economics/2160
3019-got-got-got-got-got-need-stickernomics Acesso: 13/ago/2014)
Marque a opção em que o uso do ing denota ação contínua.
a) […] disturbing number of adults […] (ref. 6)
b) Collecting them is no idle pursuit […] (ref. 7)
c) […] your � rst sticker […] has a 640/640 probability of being
needed. (ref. 8)
d) According to Sylvain Sardy and Yvan Velenik […] (ref. 9)
e) […] the market is not being rigged. (ref. 10)
07. (UFV 2004) Leia o texto a seguir.
HAS TECHNOLOGY RUINED CHILDHOOD?
1Today, parents are increasingly worried about the safety of their 
children, and because of this, they are not letting their children out to 
play. As a result, children are no longer playing outside but shutting 
themselves away in their rooms and losing themselves in individualistic 
activities such as television viewing and computer games.
2Yet, if they had the chance, they would rather get out of the 
house and go to the cinema, see friends or play sport. In fact, when 
asked what their idea of a good day was, only 1 in 7 said that they 
would turn on the television.
3British teenagers have always retreated to their bedrooms, 
leaving the younger children to play in communal spaces such as the 
sitting room, garden or kitchen. However, children from the age of 9 
are now turning to their bedrooms as a place to socialise.
4 Bedroom culture is a phenomenon of the past 20 years with 
families getting smaller and homes getting more spacious. Increasing 
prosperity has also contributed to the rise of the bedroom culture.
5 Of British children aged 6 to 17, 72% have a room they do not 
have to share with a sibling, 68% have their own music installation, 
34% have an electronic games controller hooked up to the television, 
21% have a PC. Only 1%, on the other hand, have an Internet 
connection in their bedroom.
6On average children devote 5 hours a day to screen media. Even 
so, only 1 child in 100 can be classed as a real screen addict, a child 
who spends a worrying 7 hours or more watching TV or playing 
computer games.
7 Although children generally have a few favourite programmes, 
they mostly use television to kill time when they are bored and have 
nothing special to do. Moreover, the distinction between individualistic 
media use and social activities such as chatting with friends is less 
extreme than is commonly assumed. Children gossip about television 
soap characters, make contact with other children on the Internet, 
and visit friends to admire 6their new computer games.
8 As the use of PCs proliferates, reading skills are expected to 
suffer. Nevertheless, 57% of children say they still enjoy reading, and 
1 in 5 teenagers can be classed as a book-lover. 
9 As a result of the bedroom culture, it is becoming rarer for 
children over the age of 10 to watch television with their parents. 
Once in their rooms, children tend to stay up watching television for 
as long as they wish. Consequently it is getting 8harder to control 
children’s viewing.
10One father told researchers that 9he drew the line at 9 pm. His 
son, on the other hand, said: “They tell us to go up at about 9.30 or 
10 or something, and then we just watch until they come up and tell 
us to switch it off at 11 or 11.30.”
Choose the alternative in which the capital word -ING form is an 
example of the present continuous:
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a) “a child who spends a WORRYING 7 hours or more” (paragraph 
6)
b) “INCREASING prosperity has also contributed to the rise of” 
(paragraph 4)
c) “children from the age of 9 are now TURNING to their bedrooms” 
(paragraph 3)
d) “children say they still enjoy READING” (paragraph 8)
e) “harder to control children’s VIEWING” (paragraph 9)
08. (FATEC 2004) Leia.
BUNKER DOWN
FORGET HIDING IN THE basement. Brits worried about their safety 
can now purchase a completely bombproof house, made by the steel 
manufacturer Corus. The Surefast shelter, launched earlier this month, is 
constructed out of steel panels that are slotted together and � lled with 
concrete. But don’t expect to just throw it together at the last minute: 
it takes several people 10 hours - and the help of a heavy crane - to 
assemble the two-story, 50,000 pounds structure. In tests the shelter 
has successfully withstood everything from car bombs to blowtorches. 
Still, it offers no protection from biological or chemical weapons. For 
clean air, inhabitants had best out� t their bombproof homes with the 
Dominick Hunter Group’s regenerative NBC � ltration system. (The 
British Army is now installing it in its tanks.) Breathable air doesn’t come 
cheap, either: a � lter to support 10 people starts at 50,000 pounds.
(Newsweek, April 14, 2003.)
Assinale a alternativa que apresenta o uso correto do presente 
contínuo como em “The British Army is now installing it in its tanks.”. 
a) The British Army is liking the new program.
b) The British Army is understanding the needs of the population.
c) The British Army is listening to the population.
d) The British Army is preferring the new general.
e) The British Army is possessing many tanks.
09. (CN) Read the text below.
HELPING AT A HOSPITAL
Every year many young people � nish school and then take a year 
off before they start work or go to college. Some of them go to other 
countries and work as volunteers. Volunteers give their time to help 
people. For example, they work in schools or hospitals, other help with 
conservation.
Mike Coleman is 19 and ______________in Omaha, Nebraska, 
in the United States. He wants to become a teacher but now he 
______________ in Namibia. He’s working in a hospital near Katima 
Mulilo. He says, “I’m working with the doctors and nurses here to 
help sick people. I’m not a doctor but I can do a lot of things to help. 
For example, I help carry people who can’t walk. Sometimes I go to 
villages in the mobile hospital, too. There aren’t many doctors here so 
they need help from people like me. I don’t get any money, but that’s 
OK, l’m not here for the money.”
“I’m staying here for two months, and I’m living in a small house 
with � ve other volunteers. The work is hard and the days are long, 
but I’m enjoying my life here. I’m learning a lot about life in Southern 
África and about myself! When I � nish the two months’ work, I want 
to travel in and around Namibia for three weeks. For example, I want 
to see the animals in the Okavango Delta in Botswana.”
(http://vyre-legacy-access.cambridge.org)
Which verb forms respectively complete the gaps in text I?
a) is living - leaves
b) lives - is living
c) is living - lives
d) leaves - is living
e) leaves - is leaving
10. (EEAR 2011)
DOING THINGS
Evan: Hey, Chloe. What are you doing? 
Chloe: I’m drawing a picture for the story I wrote in school today. 
Evan: Oh, yeah? Terri� c. Can I see it? It’s very pretty. I like the colors.
Chloe: Thanks, Dad.
Evan: Chloe, go look in the kitchen. Is Mom _____ coffee?
Chloe: Uh, no, Daddy, she’s still _______ the dishes.
Evan: Oh. I guess I can wait a few minutes. I have to make a call.
Chloe: Are you calling Grandma?
Evan: No. It’s a business call.
(Taken from American Streamline) 
GLOSSARY:
to guess – achar, imaginar
Fill in the blanks with the correct verbs, respectively
a) making - making
b) making - doing
c) doing - making
d) doing - doing
EXERCÍCIOS DE
COMBATE
01. (EFOMM) “The companies are expanding their business. They 
__________ big now and __________ a lot of employees working 
there”.
a) is - there is
b) are - there is
c) are - there are
d) are - are there
e) is - is there
02. (EFOMM) “Paul comes here every afternoon, but he ______________ 
tomorrow. His mother is very ill”.
a) are coming
b) coming
c) isn’t coming
d) is coming
e) aren’t coming
03. (UNESP) Assinale a alternativa correta:
“__________ a river near my house and It __________ a stream of 
Amazon river”.
a) Is there – is
b) There are – is
c) There is – are
d) There are – are
e) There is – is
04. (EFOMM) “The companies are expanding their business and they 
need all the help they can get. So they __________ several people”.
a) employ
b) is employing
c) isn’t employing
d) employing
e) are employing
05. (UFRS) “Today _____ more than 103 million dogs and cats 
living in American homes, a total greater than the combined human 
populations of Spain and France.
a) has
b) there are 
c) there is 
d) have
e) is
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06. (OSEC-SP) “Jane is an excellent student. At this moment she 
_______ her lessons”.
a) studing
b) studied
c) is studied
d) has studying
e) is studying
07. (IME) “The 9:15 bus to town never stops here but it ____ at this 
moment because an elderly woman ____ the street”.
a) is stopping - crosses
b) is stopping - is crossing
c) stops - is crossing
d) are stopping - are crossing
e) stopped - crossed
08. (FMU-SP) “I __________ there and I ______ a bird now”.
a) am looking – am seeing
b) am looking – seeing
c) look – am seeing
d) am looking – see
e) looking – seeing
09. (UF-BA) Escolha a pergunta cuja resposta é: “No, he isn’t”.
a) Are the students cheating?
b) Is Mary worrying about her future?
c) Is Tom working in the lab?
d) Is the lesson interesting?
e) Does he know how to enjoy his life?
10. (ITA) “The United States ____________ a big country”.
a) is
b) are
c) have
d) a e b são corretas.
e) todas são corretas.
GABARITO
EXERCÍCIOS DE FIXAÇÃO
01. B
02. C
03. A
04. D
05. D
06. C
07. B
08. A
09. C
10. E
EXERCÍCIOS DE TREINAMENTO
01. B
02. A
03. C
04. B
05. C
06. E
07. C
08. C
09. B
10. B
EXERCÍCIOS DE COMBATE
01. C
02. C
03. E
04. E
05. B
06. E
07. B
08. D
09. C
10. A
ANOTAÇÕES