Bilan de fin d’année - Les temps verbaux
Piqûre de rappel
Pour parler de l’année qui vient de passer vous avez le choix entre les temps suivants :
Simple Past (action qui s’est passée à un moment précis)
My daughter got married in June. (Ma fille s’est mariée en juin.)
Past Continuous (action en cours à un moment précis du passé)
My son was working abroad but came home for the ceremony. (Mon fils était en poste à l’étranger mais il est revenu pour la cérémonie.) Present Perfect (action qui a commencé dans le passé et qui continue dans le présent)
They have bought a house. (Ils ont acheté une maison.)
Present Perfect Continuous (action qui a duré sur une période dans le passé)
We have been helping them to renovate the house. (Nous les avons aidé à rénover la maison.)
Past Perfect (action qui s’est passée avant un moment de référence)
They had visited lots of properties before making a decision. (Ils avaient visités pas mal de maisons avant de prendre une décision.) Past Perfect Continuous (action continue avant un moment de référence)
They had been living in a small bedsit before getting married. (Ils vivaient dans un petit studio avant de se marier.)
1 Complétez le texte avec les verbes proposés.
followed learnt were waiting did appointed was had died were experiencing has chosen was saw has been seemed had …. begun
Collins Dictionary (1) ........................... “permacrisis” (permanent crisis) as word of the year. It sums up just how awful 2022
(2) ........................ for many people. We (3) ......... just ................. to return to some normality after the Covid lockdowns when February (4) .............. the beginnings of the war in Ukraine. In September we (5) ................................ for Liz Truss, the new Prime Minister, to announce measures to help the cost-of-living crisis when we (6) .............. that the Queen (7) .......................... . A State funeral (8) .......................... and the country (9) .................... to come to a halt. Only a few weeks later we (10) .......................................... our 3rd Prime Minister of the year when the Government
(11) ........................ Rishi Sunak to replace Liz Truss.
What (12) ............ 2022 like for you? (13) ............ it a good year? (14) ............ you have a good time? Or maybe you are looking forward to better times next year!
2 Traduisez
1. We went to Spain for our holidays. _______________________________________________________
2. We were driving along the motorway when we heard the news. _______________________________________________________
3. My husband has changed jobs. _______________________________________________________
4. We have been looking for a new house since March. _______________________________________________________
5. We had decided to move last year. _______________________________________________________
6. We had been thinking about it for several years. _______________________________________________________
SOLUTIONS:
1: 1.has chosen 2.has been 3.had…begun 4.saw 5.were waiting 6.learnt 7. had died 8.followed 9.seemed 10.were experiencing 11. appointed 12.was 13.was. 14.Did 2: 1. Nous avons passé nos vacances en Espagne. 2. Nous étions sur l'autoroute lorsque nous avons entendu ce qui s'était passé. 3. Mon mari a changé de travail. 4. Nous recherchons une nouvelle maison depuis le mois de mars. 5. Nous avions pris la décision de déménager l'année dernière. 6. Nous y pensions depuis plusieurs années.