TONGUE TWISTERS, entraînement de prononciation

Entraînez-vous à écouter et lire ces petites phrases:

Wise spiders will weave webs wonderfully well.

I wish I were what I was when
I wished I were what I am.

I gratefully gazed at the gracefully grazing gazelles.

If a dog chews shoes, what shoes should he choose to chew.

How many slim slimy snakes would slither silently to the sea if slim slimy snakes could slither silently?

Whether the weather be fine,
Or whether the weather be not,
Whether the weather be cold,
Or whether the weather be hot,
We’ll weather the weather
Whatever the weather,
Whether we like it or not.

I have a sieve full of sifted thistles and a sieve full of unsifted thistles, because I am a thistle sifter.

A DAY IN THE LIFE, a song (pour réviser le prétérit)

Retrouvez les paroles de cette chanson des Beatles avec des verbes au prétérit:

I …………………. the news today, oh boy
About a lucky man who …………….. the grade
And though the news ……………. rather sad
Well I just …………. to laugh
I …………… the photograph
He …………… his mind out in a car
He ……………………….. that the lights had changed
A crowd of people …………………. and stared
They’d seen his face before
But nobody …………… really sure if he was from the House of Lords

I ………….. a film today, oh, boy
The English Army had just won the war
A crowd of people ……………. away
But I just ……………… to look
Having read the book
I’d love to turn you on

…………….. up, ……………. out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
………………. my way downstairs and …………….. a cup
And looking up I ………………… I was late
……………. my coat and grabbed my hat
………….. the bus in seconds flat
………….. my way upstairs and …………… a smoke
And somebody ………………. and I ……………….. into a dream

I ………………. the news today, oh boy
4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes ……………… rather small
They ……………. to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
I’d love to turn you on

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BUT (pour faire qqch)
He came to see me (to +BV)

Auxiliaire de modalité
She can swim (aux+ BV)

Temps ou 3ème personne
John loves Jill. Peter liked her.

ADJECTIF (invariable + avant le nom)
She discovered many different activities.

MOUVEMENT
They went to NYC.

Everybody Knows, a song by Leonard Cohen

Complétez les trous en écoutant cette chanson mélancolique.

Everybody Knows by Leonard Cohen

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their …………. crossed
Everybody knows that the ………. is over
Everybody knows the good ……….. lost
Everybody knows the ……….. was fixed
The ……… stay poor, the rich get …………
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows that the ………… is leaking
Everybody knows that the ………………. lied
Everybody got this broken …………………
Like their ………….. or their ……….. just died

Everybody talking to their ……………
Everybody wants a ……… of chocolates
And a long stem ……………
Everybody knows

Everybody knows that you love me ……..
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you’ve been faithful
Ah give or take a ………. or two
Everybody knows you’ve been discreet
But there were so many ………you just had to meet
Without your ………………
And everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows

And everybody knows that it’s now or never
Everybody knows that it’s me or you
And everybody knows that you live forever
Ah when you’ve done a ……….. or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old Black Joe’s still pickin’ ……….
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows

And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it’s moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked …….. and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the …………..
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there’s gonna be a meter on your ……..
That will disclose
What everybody knows

And everybody knows that you’re in trouble
Everybody knows what you’ve been through
From the bloody ………….. on top of Calvary
To the …………. of Malibu
Everybody knows it’s coming apart
Take one last look at this Sacred ………..
Before it blows
And everybody knows

Everybody knows, everybody knows
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows

Oh everybody knows, everybody knows
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows

Songwriters: COHEN, LEONARD / ROBINSON, SHARON

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Les adjectifs possessifs

LES ADJECTIFS POSSESSIFS

Les adjectives possessifs se rapportent à un nom et s’accordent avec le possesseur.

This is MY book.
This is YOUR book.
This is HER book (Julia’s)
This is HIS book (Paul’s)
This is ITS book (the school’s)
This is OUR book (my husband and I’s)
This is YOUR book.
This is THEIR book. (Paul and Julia’s)

Conjugaison

CONJUGUEZ LES VERBES (extrait de Boy by Roald Dahl)

Mrs Pratchett’s revenge.

Our form master (come) ……………………. into the classroom with a piece of paper in his hand. ‘The following (be) …………………… to report to the Headmaster’s study at once,’ he said. ‘Thwaites…Dahl…’ And then he (read) ……………………. out the other three names which I (forget) ……………………………………….. .
The five of us (stand) ………………………. up and (leave) ……………………………… the room .We (not speak) ………………………………… as we (make) ………………………. our way down the long corridor […]Thwaites (knock) ……………………….on the door.
‘Enter !’
We (sidle) …………………………. in. The room (smell) ………………………….. of leather and tobacco. Mr Coombes (stand) ……………………………………. in the middle of it, dominating everything, a giant of a man if ever there (be) …………………….. one, and in his hands he (hold) ………………………. a long yellow cane which (curve) …………………………… round the top like a walking stick.
‘I (not want) ……………………………… any lies,’ he (say) ………………………. . ‘I (know) …………………….. very well you (do) …………………… it and you (be) …………………………. all in it together…

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