Practice makes Perfect
Objectives
- Les adjectifs de personnalité
- Les activités quotidiennes
- La place de l’adverbe de fréquence
- Les pronoms personnels compléments
- Le gérondif
- Le comparatif de supériorité
Contents
Vocabulary time
- Les adjectifs de personnalité
- Les activités quotidiennes
What is he/she like?
Listen to your teacher. Follow the lines and answer the questions.
Écoute ton professeur. Suis les lignes et réponds aux questions.
Teacher: What is Lifen like? Comment est Lifen ?
You: She’s hard-working. Elle est travailleuse.
Daily Routines
You have five minutes to make as many sentences as you can. There are several solutions.
Tu as cinq minutes pour faire autant de phrases que possible. Il y a plusieurs solutions.
Grammar time
- La place de l’adverbe de fréquence
- Les pronoms personnels compléments
- Le gérondif
- Le comparatif de supériorité
Grammar Kit
Les adverbes de fréquence se placent en général devant le verbe.
- I often wake up at 6:30.
Ils se place après le verbe « to be ».
- I’m always happy.
1. Place les adverbes de fréquence au bon endroit.
Reposition the adverbs in the correct place within the sentences.
- You are late for school. (always)
- Pat goes to the gym by bus. (never)
- Chris cooks dinner on Sundays. (rarely)
- I don’t have lunch at the cafeteria. (often)
- You are always late for school.
- Pat never goes to the gym by bus.
- Chris rarely cooks dinner on Sundays.
- I often don’t have lunch at the cafeteria.
Grammar Kit
Afin d’éviter les répétitions, les pronoms personnels compléments remplacent un nom en position complément.
- Jenny hates boys. She hates them.
2. Remplace les éléments en bleu ou complète la phrase à l’aide d’un pronom personnel complément.
Replace the blue words with the correct object pronoun or complete the sentence.
- I really love Steve.
- Look at Maya. She’s got a new pair of trainers.
- Jill and I must lay the table. Can you help … ?
- Anna and Sharon need help. Can you do the washing up with … ?
- My mum sometimes helps … make my bed.
- I really love him.
- Look at her. She’s got a new pair of trainers.
- Jill and I must lay the table. Can you help us?
- Anna and Sharon need help. Can you do the washing up with them?
- My mum sometimes helps me make my bed.
Grammar Kit
Après « I love », « I like », « I don’t like » ou « I hate », on peut utiliser un nom ou un verbe terminé en -ing.
- I love cartoons.
- I hate washing up.
3. Complète les phrases avec le nom ou le gérondif approprié.
Complete the sentences with the correct noun or gerund.
martial arts / listening to / watching / online games / surfing
- My friends like … the Net. They definitely love … .
- Do you like … TV?
- They don’t like … It’s too difficult and dangerous.
- Jessie really hates … classical music.
- My friends like surfing the Net. They definitely love online games.
- Do you like watching TV?
- They don’t like martial arts. It’s too difficult and dangerous.
- Jessie really hates listening to classical music.
Grammar Kit
Le comparatif de supériorité permet de comparer deux éléments.
- Adjectifs courts :
small → smaller than
big → bigger than
friendly → friendlier than - Adjectifs longs :
interesting → more interesting than
4. Copie et corrige le message suivant en mettant les adjectifs en bleu au comparatif de supériorité.
Rewrite the message by changing the adjectives in blue to their comparative form.
Hi, Antoine!
Here’s some information about my new band. Starting a new band is difficult than you imagine. My new electric guitar is expensive than my old acoustic guitar. My budget is small than the prices I can find on the Internet. You know, it’s easy to find a good singer than a bassist. Special costumes for the concert are spectacular than my normal clothes and it is hard to find a personal style of music than to sing famous hits. Have you got any brilliant ideas to help me?
That’s all for now. See you.
Brendan
Hi, Antoine!
Here’s some information about my new band. Starting a new band is more difficult than you imagine. My new electric guitar is more expensive than my old acoustic guitar. My budget is smaller than the prices I can find on the Internet. You know, it’s easier to find a good singer than a bassist. Special costumes for the concert are more spectacular than my normal clothes, and it is harder to find a personal style of music than to sing famous hits.
Have you got any brilliant ideas to help me?
That’s all for now. See you.
Brendan
Worksheets
- Révision : Activités avec des gérondifs
- Expression écrite : goûts et préférences avec des gérondifs
- Le comparatif de supériorité
- Les diphtongues /eɪ/ et /aɪ
