Voici le corrigé Australie et Nouvelle-Zélande des 12 exercices. Compare tes réponses item par item, puis relis les explications : elles reviennent sur les verbes irréguliers et sur la voix passive, les deux pièges du chapitre.
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Corrigé Australie et Nouvelle-Zélande : réponses
Correction de l’exercice 1 : Vocabulaire – associe- h (un colon)
- c (un bagnard)
- e (un chef)
- a (un traité)
- f (la terre)
- g (s’installer)
- d (des excuses)
- b (autochtone)
- NZ
- A
- NZ
- A (Sydney, 26 January 1788)
- NZ
- A
- NZ
Ordre : 6 – 3 – 5 – 2 – 4 – 1
- Abel Tasman saw the coast of New Zealand (1642).
- James Cook landed in New Zealand (1769).
- The First Fleet arrived in Sydney (1788).
- The Treaty of Waitangi was signed (1840).
- The Ten Pound scheme started (1945).
- Kevin Rudd said sorry to the Stolen Generations (2008).
- sailed
- killed
- reached
- took (take, took, taken)
- left (leave, left, left)
- went … came (go, went ; come, came)
- said (say, said, said)
- The treaty was signed by Hobson and Māori chiefs in 1840.
- A lot of Māori land was taken by settlers. (land est indénombrable : was)
- Compensation was paid. (by the government est inutile : on sait qui paie)
- Aboriginal children were taken from their families.
- Uluru is considered sacred by the Anangu people.
- Climbing on Uluru was banned in 2019.
- They left Britain (Liverpool) in 1958.
- They travelled by ship / by boat.
- At first they lived in a migrant hostel, in a hot metal hut.
- She was sad because she missed her sisters.
- They bought a house with a garden.
- Yes, she is: « I have never regretted it. »
- False. The two versions say different things.
- True.
- True.
- False. It was written in English and in Māori.
- True.
- Hello, friend!
- See you this afternoon.
- Let’s have a barbecue on Sunday.
- Don’t forget your sunglasses.
- I had breakfast at seven.
- No problem!
- The treaty was signed in 1840. (participe passé au passif)
- Cook arrived in New Zealand in 1769. (date passée : prétérit)
- The Māori lost a lot of their land. (majuscule)
- Many British families emigrated to Australia. (majuscule aux adjectifs de nationalité)
- They lost their land after the war. (land indénombrable)
- He has been living (ou has lived) in New Zealand since 2015. (since + present perfect, et orthographe)
- The Māori came from Polynesia by canoe.
- The treaty was signed in 1840.
- More than a million British people emigrated to Australia.
- The voyage cost ten pounds.
- The Prime Minister apologised (said sorry) in 2008.
- Climbing Uluru is forbidden. / You are not allowed to climb Uluru.
- La première rencontre entre Cook et les Maoris tourna à la violence.
- Beaucoup de colons achetèrent des terres aux chefs.
- Les enfants des fermes isolées étudiaient avec l’École des ondes (School of the Air).
- Le te reo maori est une langue officielle depuis 1987. (present perfect + since = présent en français)
- Le Waitangi Day est un jour férié.
Exemple de réponse :
Dear Tom,
We finally arrived in Sydney last week! The voyage took five long weeks and I was seasick for days. Now we live in a migrant hostel: it’s a metal hut and it’s terribly hot inside. But the beach is wonderful and the sky is always blue. Yesterday a neighbour said « G’day, mate! » to me: it means « hello, friend ». I miss you and I miss our football matches, but Dad found a job and I start school on Monday. Write soon!
Your friend, Jack
On vérifie : prétérit (arrived, took, was, said, found), présent pour la situation actuelle, un mot d’Aussie English expliqué, une formule d’ouverture et de clôture.
Comment progresser après ce corrigé
Si tu as fait des erreurs sur les verbes, révise la liste des verbes irréguliers les plus utiles pour raconter (leave, take, go, come, say, find, buy) et réutilise-les à l’oral en racontant l’histoire de Cook ou des Ten Pound Poms en cinq phrases. Pour la voix passive, entraîne-toi à transformer des titres de presse. Enfin, retiens trois dates (1769, 1840, 2008) : elles suffisent pour présenter le sujet avec assurance.

