PERCEVOIR LE SENS PAR INFERENCE GRAMMATICALE

1) REPERAGE ET IDENTIFICATION DES MARQUES GRAMMATICALES

Dans le texte suivant, recherchez la nature des mots soulignés :

- interrogez vous sur le rôle de la marque gramaticale;

- recherchez avant et après le mot souligné les indices qui vous permettent de prendre des décisions sur la nature de ce mot; servez vous d' un tableau semblable au tableau ci-dessous

A survey which concerned teenagers and their relations with their parents found that tension often comes from staying out late.

Do all teenagers feel concern about their parents' feelings when they stay out late ?

Graham Woolridge' s parents, for example, were feeling very worried the other day when their son stayed out till morning without even a phone call. They particularly worried about who he was with. But parents always have a lot of unnecessary worries, as regards their children; they keep regarding them as young kids.

Graham is studying engineering in Woolwich. Studying hard makes it difficult to go out very often anyway.

Jeremy Dundee is craftier and has no problems; he is a drummer in a small band and gets his parents to transport him when no public transport is available. So they always know where he is.

Mots	Indices		Conclusions
soulignés	Avant	Après	Nom	Adjectif	Verbe
concerned	which = pronom (sujet)	teenagers = nom (c.o.d.)			*

2) ANTICIPATION GRAMMATICALE

a) Lisez le paragraphe suivant. A chaque fois que vous rencontrez un espace vide, vous servant de ce qui précède et de ce qui suit, dites si le mot manquant est un nom, un adjectif ou un verbe (ou un auxiliaire).

On the ---- of Sunday, october 30th, 1938, most American families were ---- at home, reading the ---- or listening to the radio. There were two ---- that night which attracted ---- audiences. One of them was a ---- by Orson Welles. It was a dramatisation of H.G. Wells' science-fiction novel War of the Worlds.

The play was ----, but then the listeners heard ---- music. Just as they were beginning to wonder what ---- happened, they heard a newsflash. The announcer ---- that a spaceship containing ---- had landed near Princeton, New Jersey, and that one ---- five hundred had been killed.

b) Relisez le paragraphe et complétez-le à l' aide des mots suivants choisis de façon appropriée.

Noms	Adjectives	Verbes ou Auxil.
play Martians evening programmes newspaper	thousand large dramatic light	announced had told sitting produced

3) SYNTHESE

a) Même consigne qu' en 1 pour les 2 premiers paragraphes du texte suivant.

b) Même consigne qu' en 2a pour le 3ième paragraphe.

The Price of Beauty

"Get in shape" orders the cover of the latest issue of Los Angeles magazine. Alongside articles detailing where Madonna works out and recommending "après-shop spas" are familiar advertisements offering a quicker route to beauty through "facial sculpture", liposuction and breast enhancement. Cosmetic operations, once closely kept secrets, now appear as prizes in southern Californian charity raffles.

Los Angeles, a desert city which made up for its lack of natural endowments by stealing other people' s water and building its own port, is an appropriate capital for America' s $3 billion cosmetic-surgery industry. nearly half the world' s cosmetic surgeons live in America; a third of those work in California. Cosmetic surgery arguably began in San Francisco in 1964 when a topless dancer, Carol, Carol Doda, caused a national sensation by increasing her appeal with the help of 20 silicone injections.

Until recently the most ---- thing about cosmetic ---- in America, was how ---- it was. There ---- probably 2m cosmetic "procedures" in 1991 - six ---- the total in 1981. It is no longer ---- that stars such as ---- Liz Taylor and Cher ---- "gone under the knife"; one talk-show hostess, Joan Rivers, talks about her body' s ebbs and flows as if they ---- as ---- as the tides. Only the most ---- cosmetic operations ---- secrecy.

c. Même consigne qu' en 2b pour le 3ième paragraphe en utilisant les mots suivants.

Noms	Adjectives	Verbes ou Auxil.
surgery news times M. Jackson	unremarkable remarkable natural intimate	merit have were were