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Exercices écrire une biographie : anglais 4e

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Exercices d'anglais 4e : Exercices écrire une biographie
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Ces exercices écrire une biographie te font travailler les verbes de la vie, les dates et les relatives, à partir de vraies personnalités. À la fin, tu rédiges toi-même une courte biographie à partir d’une fiche.

Les exercices

Exercices écrire une biographie : des dates au portrait

Exercice 1 : In, on ou at ?

Complète avec la bonne préposition.

  1. Thomas Edison was born ___ 1847.
  2. He was born ___ 11 February.
  3. He left school ___ the age of 12.
  4. He invented the phonograph ___ 1877.
  5. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat ___ 1 December 1955.
  6. The Beatles became famous ___ the 1960s.
  7. Shakespeare lived ___ the 16th century.
Exercice 2 : Lis les dates

Écris en toutes lettres la façon de lire ces dates.

  1. 1847
  2. 1922
  3. 1969
  4. 2005
  5. 3 March
  6. 21 July 1969
Exercice 3 : Les verbes de la vie

Mets le verbe au prétérit.

  1. J.K. Rowling ___ (grow up) near the Forest of Dean.
  2. She ___ (study) French at university.
  3. In 1990, she ___ (have) the idea of Harry Potter on a train.
  4. She ___ (move) to Portugal and ___ (teach) English there.
  5. Her first book ___ (come) out in 1997.
  6. She ___ (become) one of the most famous writers in the world.
Exercice 4 : Was ou were born ?

Complète avec was born ou were born, puis traduis la phrase 6.

  1. Charles Dickens ___ in Portsmouth.
  2. The Wright brothers ___ in the United States.
  3. I ___ in 2012.
  4. Where ___ your parents ___?
  5. Serena Williams ___ in Michigan.
  6. Ma sœur et moi sommes nées à Lyon.
Exercice 5 : Who ou which ?

Relie les deux phrases avec who ou which.

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

Observe la frise et écris une phrase au prétérit pour chaque date.

1847bornOhio1859sell newspaperson trains1877invent thephonograph1879develop alight bulb1931dieNew Jersey
Thomas Edison (1847-1931), inventeur américain.
  1. 1847
  2. 1859
  3. 1877
  4. 1879
  5. 1931
Exercice 7 : Les marqueurs de temps

Complète avec : later, ago, for, until, at the age of, from.

  1. Mozart wrote his first music ___ five.
  2. Bell worked on new inventions ___ his death in 1922.
  3. Armstrong walked on the Moon more than fifty years ___.
  4. She studied in Paris ___ 1891 to 1894.
  5. He left school in 1859. Ten years ___, he was an inventor.
  6. Nelson Mandela was in prison ___ 27 years.
Exercice 8 : Corrige l’erreur

Chaque phrase contient une erreur. Recopie-la corrigée.

  1. Roald Dahl is born in Wales in 1916.
  2. He married with Patricia Neal in 1953.
  3. She left school at 16 years old.
  4. Ada Lovelace was a woman which loved maths.
  5. He died on 1922.
  6. She growed up in a small village.
  7. Two years after, he became a pilot.
Exercice 9 : Traduis en anglais
  1. Il est né à Édimbourg en 1847.
  2. Elle a grandi à la campagne.
  3. À l’âge de vingt ans, il est devenu professeur.
  4. Trois ans plus tard, elle s’est mariée.
  5. C’est une inventrice qui a changé le monde.
  6. Il est mort il y a cent ans.
Exercice 10 : Lis la biographie

Roald Dahl was a British writer who is famous for his funny and sometimes dark children’s books. He was born in Llandaff, in Wales, on 13 September 1916. His parents were from Norway. When he was three, his father died. He went to boarding schools in England, which he hated. After leaving school, he worked for an oil company in Africa. During the Second World War, he became a fighter pilot and he was badly injured in a crash in 1940. Later, he started writing stories. In 1964, he published Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which became a huge success. He died in Oxford in 1990, but his books are still read by millions of children today.

Réponds aux questions en anglais.

  1. Where and when was Roald Dahl born?
  2. Where were his parents from?
  3. What happened when he was three?
  4. Did he like his boarding schools? Quote the text.
  5. What job did he do during the war?
  6. Which book did he publish in 1964?
  7. Find a relative clause with who and one with which.
Exercice 11 : Écris une biographie

À partir de cette fiche, écris la biographie de Rosa Parks en 7 phrases au moins.

InformationRosa Parks
IdentitéAmerican civil rights activist
Naissance4 February 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama
Jeunessegrew up on a farm with her grandparents
Métierworked as a seamstress in Montgomery
Événement1 December 1955: refused to give her bus seat to a white man, was arrested
ConséquenceMontgomery bus boycott, 381 days
Mort et héritagedied in 2005, called the mother of the civil rights movement
  1. Présente la personne.
  2. Donne sa date et son lieu de naissance.
  3. Parle de son enfance.
  4. Dis quel était son métier.
  5. Raconte l’événement de 1955.
  6. Explique la conséquence avec which.
  7. Termine par sa mort et son héritage.

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