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RUE DE MARSEILLE SCHOOL 6TH FORMS /7TH FORMS 1998/99

 

COMPOUND ADJECTIVES

TYPE ONE : NOUN+ PAST PARTICIPLE

A hand-made pull-over ; A flower-covered garden

TYPE TWO : ADJECTIVE + NOUN + ED

A blue-eyed baby ; A high-walled room

TYPE THREE : NUMBER + YEAR + OLD : (NUMBER + NOUN + ADJECTIVE)

A ten-year-old boy ; an eighty-year-old woman

TYPE FOUR : NUMBER + NOUN

A twenty-millime coin ; A fifty-storey hotel ; A thirty-centimetre ruler

TYPE FIVE : ADVERB + PAST PARTICIPLE

A well-known actor ; A quickly-taken decision

TYPE SIX : ADJECTIVE + VERB + ING

A nice-looking person

TYPE SEVEN : ADVERB + VERB + ING

A hard-working student ; a fast-running car

TYPE EIGHT : NOUN + VERB + ING

A oil-producing country

TYPE NINE : ORDINAL NUMBER + NOUN

A second-hand book

TYPE TEN : NOUN+ADJECTIVE

An olive-green coat

TYPE ELEVEN : ADJECTIVE + NOUN

The Baccalaureate is an advanced-level exam

 

 RUE DE MARSEILLE SCHOOL 98/99

Mme HEDFI AFEF

VERB TENSES

 

SIMPLE PRESENT : I AM a student. / I HAVE three brothers. / I DO my homework everyday. / We PLAY the piano every week. / I SPEAK four languages. / I DON’T like kuskus.

PRESENT PROGRESSIVE : We ARE PLAYING cards now. / The teacher IS EXPLAING the lesson now

SIMPLE PAST : I WAS / you WERE a student last year. / We HAD a nice pet. / We DID this lesson last year./ We SPOKE to him in the morning. / We PLAYED tennis yesterday./ She DIDN’T HELP her mother.

PAST PROGRESSIVE : We WERE PLAYING cards yesterday. / I WASN’T SLEEPING so I got up. / She WAS WASHING her hair when the doorbell rang.

PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE : We HAVE VISITED Scotland twice. / She HAS just GONE.

PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE : We HAVE BEEN PLAYING football all evening.

PAST PERFECT SIMPLE : He HAD VISITED Italy in 1993, then he visited Morocco in 1995.

PAST PERFECT PROGRESSIVE : We HAD BEEN PLAYING for ages. / The driver who died in the accident HAD BEEN DRINKING.

THE FUTURE : There are different ways of expressing the future :

A/ WILL : The cinema WILL CLOSE in March PREDICTION about the future

B/ GOING TO : The cinema IS GOING TO CLOSE soon : Expressing an INTENTION.

C/ THE PROGRESSIVE : The cinema IS CLOSING in March : talking about a PLAN FOR THE FUTURE ; an ARRANGEMENT.