Savez-vous l'expliquer en anglais?

  Rattachez chaque exemple de cette feuille aux explications de la deuxième partie.

 

1- ' I wish it would stop raining.' =/= 'Tom said he would lend Ann some money' =/= "Whenever he was angry, he would just walk out of the room' =/= 'What would you do if you won a million pounds?'

2- ' What shall we do this evening? We could go to the cinema.'

3- 'Don't come at 8. I'll be watching the match' is a  ...............

4- 'He has lost his key' is a ...............

5- 'He may be in his office' =/= ' I may go to Italy for my holidays' =/= 'You may smoke if you like'

6- 'I must write to Ann. I haven't written to her for ages' =/= 'Ann's eyes are not very good. She has to wear glasses for reading)

7- 'I used to smoke 40 cigarettes a day'  =/= The English are not used to driving on the right.

8- 'I'll repair it tomorrow' =/= I'm going to repair it tomorrow.

9- 'I'm playing tennis tomorrow' is a ...............

10-'It rained all day yesterday' is a ...............

11- 'Jack was an excellent tennis player: he could beat anybody. But one day, Alf was able to beat him.'

12- 'She's driving to work' is a ...............

13- 'The earth goes round the sun' is a ...............

14- 'The ground is wet: it's been raining' is a ...............

15- 'The ground was very wet. It had been raining." is a ...............

16- 'They were playing tennis then' is a ...............

17- 'This house was built in 1895'

18- 'When I arrived, he wasn't there. He had gone home' is a ...............

19- You must go =/= You mustn't shout =/= You needn't hurry

20- A preterite is a .................... whereas a past is ....................

 

 

A- ............... is sometimes the past of will. / This ............... is an example of a conditional./ We use ............... when we want something to happen or somebody to do something. / You can use ................. when you look back on the past and remember things that often happened.

 

B- ............... means that it is not necessary to do something whereas ............... means that it is necessary that you do something; ............... means that it is necessary that you do not do something.

 

C- future continuous (to say that we will be in the middle of doing something at a certain time in the future)

 

D- Here ............... has a future meaning, (when we talking about  possible future actions, especially when we make suggestions)

 

E- past continuous (to say that someone was in the middle of doing something at a certain time)

 

F- past perfect (to say that something had already happened before a given time)

 

G- past perfect continuous (it is the past of the present perfect continuous)

 

H- past simple (to talk about actions or situations in the past)

 

I- present continuous (to talk about something which is happening at the time of speaking)

 

J- present continuous with a future meaning when you're talking about what you have already arranged to do)

 

K- present perfect ( auxiliary + past participle: to indicate a connection with the present ; to talk about a period of time that continues up to the present; we're interested in the result of the action, not the action itself)

 

L- present perfect continuous (to talk about an action which began in the past and has recently stopped or to say how long something has been happening -still happening or just stopped)

 

M- We can use ...............  to give permission  =/= to talk about possible actions in the future =/to say that something is possible

 

N- We use ............... or ............... to say that it is necessary to do something ( with ............... the speaker is giving his own feelings, saying what he thinks is necessary while with ............... he is just giving facts)

 

O- present simple (to talk about things in general or things which happen repeatedly)

 

P- We use ............... to say that someone had the general ability to do something while we use ............... to mean that someone managed to do something in one particular occasion.

 

Q- We use ............... with the infinitive to say that something regularly happened in the past but no longer happens; for past situations which no longer exist. We use ................... with a noun or ING to indicate that thing is not strange for us.

 

R- We use a passive sentence when it is not important who or what did the action. (active vs. passive)

 

S- a tense  ,  a time

 

T- we use ............... when we decide to do something at the time of speaking whereas we use ............... when we have already decided to do something.