Ce contrôle used to évalue la façon d’exprimer les habitudes et les états passés, ainsi que la familiarité avec une situation. Durée : 50 minutes. Barème : 20 points. Sans dictionnaire.
Soigner la graphie des formes verbales et répondre en anglais lorsque la consigne le demande.
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Exercice 1 : Formes à compléter (3 points)Compléter chaque phrase avec la forme appropriée construite à partir du verbe entre parenthèses.
1. When I was ten, we ______ (spend) every summer in Wales.
2. I am not ______ (drive) on the left yet.
3. There ______ (be) a cinema in our village, but it closed in 1998.
4. Every evening, my grandmother ______ (sit) by the fire and knit.
5. She quickly got ______ (get up) at five o’clock.
6. ______ you ______ (play) the violin as a child?
Corriger l’erreur dans chaque phrase en réécrivant la phrase entière.
1. I didn’t used to like spinach.
2. He is used to get up early.
3. We would live in a flat when I was born.
4. She use to walk to school every day.
5. My brother isn’t used to the cold weather yet, so he wears three sweaters.
6. They were used to travelling by train.
My grandfather worked in a coal mine in South Wales for forty years. Every morning, he would leave the house at five and walk two miles to the pit. In those days, the village used to have three chapels and a brass band, and everybody knew everybody. When the mine closed, he found it hard to get used to staying at home. Today, he runs a small museum where he shows visitors his old lamp.
Répondre en anglais, par une phrase complète, à chaque question.
1. How long did the narrator’s grandfather work in the mine?
2. What did he do every morning?
3. What did the village have in the past?
4. What does he do today?
Réécrire chaque phrase pour exprimer une habitude ou un état passé révolu, sans changer le sens.
1. As a teenager, I played football every Saturday.
2. Years ago, this street was full of small shops.
3. In winter, we went skating on the frozen lake.
4. He did not eat meat when he was young.
Rédiger environ 80 mots pour décrire la vie quotidienne d’un grand-parent il y a cinquante ans, puis la comparer à celle d’aujourd’hui.
Le texte doit contenir au moins trois structures différentes exprimant le passé révolu ou la familiarité.
