La controverse de valladoid
The UNITED KINGDOM is a Constitutional or Parliamentary Monarchy
Vocabulaire : - To grow → growth / wide → to widen → width / high → height - Pluriel: crisis → crises - Pluriel: charity → charities - Pluriels irréguliers: child → children / (wo)man → (wo)men / … - Faux amis: actually: en réalité, en fait ≠ actuellement :(today) = currently - Savoir les verbes irréguliers - To be responsible for / take part in / different from - Noms de pays: pas d’article (sauf exceptions): Ø France, Ø Italy, Ø Spain,.. - Adjectives de nationalité et noms: ex: The English, the French, … - Elizabeth II se lit Elizabeth the second [revoir les numéraux ordinaux] - 8,000 people : eight thousand people ≠ Ø thousands of people - A painting / a song / a novel by… - Shakespeare was a playwright (auteur dramatique) (cf: a novelist (romancier), a cartoonist (un dessinateur humoristique) , a painter,…)
Accent de mots - Olympic / economic / emphatic / electric / … (sauf quelques exceptions)
Grammaire: - London is the largest city of the United Kingdom / The world’s largest city… - Place de l’adjectif épithète: one of the most popular groups in the world - India is the world's largest tea-drinking nation - Ø devant les noms indénombrables Ex: Ø courage - Ø devant les noms de repas: Ø breakfast, Ø lunch, Ø dinner Sauf si le nom est détermine par un complément de nom ou une proposition relative Ex : The courage he showed during the war.
- We have the same habits as … → We don’t have the same habits as … - Millions of people died during the second world war. → passé, date, fini = prétérit - We like cooking / I’d like to cook that new dish. - passif: BE + V-EN o The King was crowned in Westminster Abbey. o Drink is drunk by millions