| PAST SIMPLE |
Il est utilisé pour exprimer une action
dans le passé qui est révolue (terminée)et
en rupture avec le présent. ago (il y a): 5 minutes ago, a long
time ago, yesterday, last week, last Tuesday, last month, last year, in 1998,
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| Complete the gaps in the correct tense: V-ed* (past simple): | NB! some verbs are irregular :
CLICK HERE TO GO TO EXERCISE Between 1790 and 1830 the white man ______________(begin) to push westward into the Cherokee territory. The Cherokee________________ (fight) hard to keep their land. They even___________________________(take) their fight against being removed from their land to court. At first it ________________(seem) like they might win. But they were forced to leave the land they loved. In one of the saddest stories in our history, thousands of men, women, and children were forced off of the land they________________________(love) and moved into crowded forts with very little food. They were then forced to walk over a thousand miles to an Indian Reservation in what is now Arkansas and Oklahoma. It ___________________(be) an unusually cold winter. Many of the Indians______________________(be) barefoot with little clothing. They were forced to walk through snow and ice. They________________________(eat) only what they ________________(can) find along the way. Many Indians_____________________(die) along the way, especially older Indians and children. Their bloody footprints ________________________(leave) trails of blood in the snow. They _______________________ (cry) as they ____________________(go) because they were leaving the land they_______________________(love), the land they had called home for so many years. This horribly long, sad journey of the Cherokee has become known in history as "The Trail of Tears". |
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| Poser une question aux past simple | DID you see
her? DID (opérateur) + Sujet + Verbe ? NB! Lorsque Who est SUJET de la phrase: Who WAS Sitting Bull ? (Pas d'opérateur DID avec BE) NB! Avec le verbe BE:
pas d'opérateur DID INTERROGATIFS :
WHO, WHEN, WHERE, WHAT, WHY, HOW MUCH, HOW MANY,
WHICH, HOW,
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| LE PASSIF |
Dans la phrase active l'énonciateur
met en avant l'action du sujet de l'énoncé: Le passif exprime un point de vue de la part
de l'énonciateur qui met en valeur l'objet
de l'action. Lorsque l'énonciateur choisit de
mentionner l'agent de l'action il l'introduit par by
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Dans la phrase passive l'intérêt
de la phrase porte sur la cible de l'action (les victimes ; c'est
à dire 'the Indians')
L'énonciateur peut choisir de mentionner l'agent ou ne pas le mentionner selon l'importance qu'il lui accorde dans sa phrase: ex: The Indians were forced to leave their land . |
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| Relevez dans le texte ci-dessous les 3 formes passives (BE V-en*) |
Wounded Knee 1890 The next great change came toward the end of the
19th century as homesteaders
moved into South Dakota. The U.S. government stripped
American Indians of much of their territory and forced them to live on reservations.
In the fall and early winter of 1890, thousands of Native American followers,
including many Oglala Sioux, became followers of the Indian prophet Wovoca.
His vision called for the native people to dance the Ghost Dance and wear
Ghost Shirts, which would be impervious
to bullets. Wovoca had predicted that the white man would vanish
and their hunting grounds would
be restored. One of the last known Ghost Dances was conducted on Stronghold
Table in the South Unit of Badlands National Park. As winter closed
in, the ghost dancers returned to Pine Ridge Agency. The climax
of the struggle came in late December, 1890. Who was Wovoka? |
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