Written comprehension + grammar

Dictionnary accepted

I) Read the text carefully

2) Right or wrong ? Justify your answers by quoting the text (quote=

citer)
3) Grammar:
a) Search for the regular & irregular verbs into the text. No past participles or
adjectives !
10 Regular verbs 9 Irregular verbs
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b) Regular verbs: sort them according to their pronunciation:

/id/ /t/ /d/

c) Complete the sentences with the correct verb in the Simple

Preterite:

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1) Captain Cook __________________________Australia in 1770

2) Barrack Obama ________________________ the first black American
President in 2008.
3) French women _______________________ the right to vote in 1945.
4) J.K. Rowling _________________________ Harry Potter and the
Philosopher’s Stone in 1990
5) King Henry VIII _____________________from 1509 to 1547.

d) Put these sentences in the negative form:

1) The Germans won WWII
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2) Lady Diana was a Queen
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3) Neil Armstrong walked on Mars in 1969
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4) Laurel and Hardy were two famous astronauts
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5) The London Underground closed in 1863.
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e) Translate into Portuguese from “After school ….returned to

England with her daughter” (§2)
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