Corrigé écrire une biographie : exercices d’anglais 4e

1. in 1847 (année)
2. on 11 February (date précise)
3. at the age of 12 (âge)
4. in 1877
5. on 1 December 1955
6. in the 1960s (décennie)
7. in the 16th century (siècle)

1. eighteen forty-seven
2. nineteen twenty-two
3. nineteen sixty-nine
4. two thousand and five
5. the third of March
6. the twenty-first of July, nineteen sixty-nine

1. J.K. Rowling grew up near the Forest of Dean.
2. She studied French at university. (y devient ied)
3. In 1990, she had the idea of Harry Potter on a train.
4. She moved to Portugal and taught English there.
5. Her first book came out in 1997.
6. She became one of the most famous writers in the world.

1. Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth.
2. The Wright brothers were born in the United States.
3. I was born in 2012.
4. Where were your parents born?
5. Serena Williams was born in Michigan.
6. My sister and I were born in Lyon.

1. Edison invented the light bulb, which lit up homes all over the world.
2. Bell married Mabel Hubbard, who was one of his students.
3. Roald Dahl wrote Matilda, which became a musical.
4. Ada Lovelace worked with Babbage, who was an inventor.
5. Marie Curie won two Nobel Prizes, which were in physics and chemistry.
6. Rosa Parks was an activist who fought against segregation.

1. Thomas Edison was born in Ohio in 1847.
2. In 1859, he sold newspapers on trains.
3. In 1877, he invented the phonograph.
4. In 1879, he developed a light bulb.
5. He died in New Jersey in 1931.

1. Mozart wrote his first music at the age of five.
2. Bell worked on new inventions until his death in 1922.
3. Armstrong walked on the Moon more than fifty years ago.
4. She studied in Paris from 1891 to 1894.
5. Ten years later, he was an inventor.
6. Nelson Mandela was in prison for 27 years.

1. Roald Dahl was born in Wales in 1916.
2. He married Patricia Neal in 1953. (sans with)
3. She left school at the age of 16 (ou when she was 16).
4. Ada Lovelace was a woman who loved maths.
5. He died in 1922.
6. She grew up in a small village.
7. Two years later, he became a pilot.

1. He was born in Edinburgh in 1847.
2. She grew up in the countryside.
3. At the age of twenty, he became a teacher.
4. Three years later, she got married.
5. She is an inventor who changed the world.
6. He died a hundred years ago.

1. He was born in Llandaff, in Wales, on 13 September 1916.
2. They were from Norway.
3. His father died.
4. No, he didn’t: « boarding schools in England, which he hated ».
5. He became a fighter pilot.
6. He published Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
7. Avec who : « a British writer who is famous for his funny… books ». Avec which : « boarding schools in England, which he hated » ou « Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which became a huge success ».

Exemple de réponse modèle :

1. Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist.
2. She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on 4 February 1913.
3. She grew up on a farm with her grandparents.
4. Later, she worked as a seamstress in Montgomery.
5. On 1 December 1955, she refused to give her bus seat to a white man and she was arrested.
6. This started the Montgomery bus boycott, which lasted 381 days.
7. She died in 2005 and today she is called the mother of the civil rights movement.