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FALSE FRIENDS/FAUX-AMIS

WHAT A SHAME!

                                                                                                                Lucy & Malcolm Turnbull 

Didn’t I tell you that president Macron was well respected abroad? As you know, following his trip to America, he also went to Australia and to New Caledonia (a French collectivity). Australian people all agreed that president Macron has grown in international stature; he is the man of the moment — youthful, energetic and able to communicate in an immaculate (perfect) English with big leaders such as Donald Trump. Before he left, he thanked Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull   “thank you and your delicious wife for a warm welcome the perfect organisation of this trip” he said before the two men shook hands. Unfortunately for him, delicious can only be used for a very tasty meal in English and if it’s used for a person that means the person is “good”, “sexy”! The whole press laughs at this faux-pas. Don’t take nothing for granted, you always have to check when it comes to important task! Be careful with FAUX AMIS. I hope that Mr and Mrs Turnbull won’t divorce after that revelation! Afterwards, president Macron flew to some more Pacific shores because France has a little control in the region with New Caledonia and French Polynesia. (See the map). Hopefully, president Macron didn’t try to speak patois when in he was in Ouvéa, New Caledonia!
10 Common False Friends:
 Actually: En fait et non actuellement = At the moment      An agenda : A l’ordre du jour et non agenda= a diary      Assist : Aider et non assister = Attend       Benefits : Les bienfaits et non les bénéfices = Profits       Eventually : Finalement et non Éventuellement = Possibly       Currently : En ce moment et non couramment= Fluently (foreign language)      Sensible : Censé et non sensible = sensitive    Society (cosumer): Société(consommation) et non Société(business)=company               Sympathetic : Complaisant et non sympahtique=Nice            Pass :Réussir(examen) et non passer = take(examen)  

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WORLD NEWS

   USA 

   President Emmanuel Macron has just come back from America where he met president Donald Trump. Hand in hand they had  good time, alongside Brigitte Macron and Melania Trump. Unlike previous French presidents, Emmanuel Macron is very keen on speaking English and adores using English slogans such as "soyons competitive!", "start up nation", "choose France" and of course "make our planet great again". President Macron admits that he has to speak English because it had become an international language of business and medium of communication.  It's true that he has restored France's image on the international scene! He is said to be Europe's diplomatic leader! yo! you see the advantage of speaking English!

Wait & see what the future holds for us!

UK  / KEEP TRADITION ALIVE

 

Kate Middleton, 36 has given birth to her third child with Prince William, 35 by her side. The new Prince was born on April 23rd at 11:01am. There is a lot of speculation about the name of the royal baby. Do you wanna bet?  

 

Some more Royal news with the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (a retired American actress) which is due to take place on 19 May 2018. It will be celebrated all over England. This blog will give you the latest news!!!

CONSEILS/SUGGESTIONS

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SHOULD
Lorsqu’on donne des conseils on utilise le modal Should
#You should work instead of wasting your time! (Tu devrais travailler au lieu de perdre ton temps!)
Pour des conseils négatifs ou des reproches on utilise Should not / Shoudn’t
You shouldn’t sleep so late; you’re always tired at school! (Tu ne devrais pas te coucher si tard, tu es tout le temps fatigué en cours!)

SHOULD HAVE + Participe Passé

Au passé, cela exprime des regrets ou des reproches

⇰ You should have called her when she needed you! (Tu aurais dû l'appeler quand elle avait besoin de toi!)

⇰ He shouldn't have cheated during the exam! (Il n'aurait pas dû tricher durant l'examen!)

OUGHT TO

Ought to fonctionne à peu près comme Should, tous les deux expriment le conditionnel, c’est juste plus ‘‘précieux’’ et moins utilisé que should.

Ouhgt to se réfère à une obligation morale, c’est une pression exercée sur quelqu’un (conseil très appuyé) alors que Should est un simple conseil.

# We ought to eat  lots of vegetables and fruit every day (Nous devrions manger beaucoup de légumes et de fruits tous les jours)

Ought to est le seul modal qui s’utilise avec « to » + proposition infinitive.

Forme négative : You ought not to/ oughtn't to watch films for hours (Tu ne devrais pas regarder des films pendant des heures !

Forme interrogative : c’est très rare, c’est préférable d’utiliser Should

# Should you sleep more to be fitter? (Devrais-tu dormir davantage pour être plus en forme?)

HAD BETTER

Lorsqu’on veut conseiller avec plus de force, on utilise le modal had better

You had better ou You’d better peut se traduire par « Je ferais mieux de ou je ferais bien de »

# You’d better practise some sports or you will get fat!

(Tu ferais mieux de faire du sport sinon tu vas grossir!)

Forme négative : You’d better not drive after three pints of beer !

Forme interrogative: à éviter, plutôt utiliser Should

Ne pas confondre Had better (‘d better) et Would rather (‘d rather)

I’d rather (J’aimerais mieux/je préférerais)

# I think, I’d rather drink water. (Je pense que je préférerais boire de l’eau (il y a le choix entre plusieurs boissons)

#What would you rather have, tea or chocolate?

 

D’AUTRES STRUCTURES POUR EXPRIMER DES SUGGESTIONS

What about + Gérondif( Vb-ing) ou How about + Gérondif (vb-ing)

-What about playing ping-pong? (Si nous jouions au ping-pong? / Que diriez-vous de jouer au pin pong?

-How about going to the cinema? (Si nous allions au cinéma?)

Why not + Base verbale

-Why not study in London? Or Why don’t you study in London? (Pourquoi ne pas étudier à Londres? / Pourquoi n’étudies-tu pas à Londres ?))

Would like to + Base Verbale

-Would you like to go to the swimming pool? (Ça te plairait d’aller à la piscine?)

Would le modal pour former le conditionnel qu’on révisera plus tard.

Employer des verbes tels que « suggest », « recommend » ou advise(conceiller)

-I would suggest working harder = I would recommend working harder = I advise working harder

On peut employer un verbe en Ing pour exprimer le conseil à la personne, on peut aussi utiliser Should ou  une proposition infinitive après ces verbes :

-I suggest you should call a cab. (je vous suggère d’appeler un taxi).

-I recommend you to bring some water! (Je vous recommande d’emmener de l’eau !

-I advise you to bring your kids! (Je te recommande d’emmener tes enfants!)

-I advise my children against stealing! / On utilise against + Gérondif pour les conseils négatifs

(Je conseille à mes enfants de ne pas voler !)

SHALL  

Shall est un modal (on parle du vieux futur, maintenant on utilise plus souvent le modal will pour le futur) mais il peut exprimer la suggestion.

-Shall we go to the restaurant? (Et si on allait au restaurant?)

L’impératif suivi d’un tag peut aussi exprimer la suggestion.

-Let’s sing, shall we ? (Et si nous chantions ?)

Se mettre à la place de quelqu’un sur des situations hypothétiques qui peuvent être réelles ou irréelles pour donner des conseils. Ces situations sont introduites par IF (Si)

1^ère structure avec If   : If +Verbe présent simple/Will +Base verbale.

-If you work harder you will pass your exam ((concordance des temps comme en français/Si tu travailles davantage tu réussiras tes examens)

2^ème structure avec If : If + Prétérit modal / Would + Base verbale

-If I were you I would study my mock exam! (Si j’étais toi, je réviserais mon examen blanc !)

 « were » est un prétérit modal, il a la forme habituelle du prétérit mais ne renvoie pas au passé ; il exprime l’irréel du présent : une situation que l’on imagine ou souhaite mais qui n’est pas réalisée (ou ne le sera jamais) au moment ou on parle.

EXERCICES à faire:- Advice/Suggestion 
                                    - Conditional clauses 1
                                    - Conditional clauses 2

EASTER HOLIDAY HOMEWORK

Stop playing on your PS4! Don't forget your mock exam on the first week of May. Revise all subjects.

YOU MUST MAKE AT LEAST 2 COMMENTS OUT OF THE 7 ARTICLES ON THE BLOG

In French "Vous devez au moins posté 2 commentaires en anglais  sur les 7 articles du blog, si vous ne le faîtes pas, vous risquez de perdre 2 points sur le prochain contrôle" Avis aux amateurs!

STOP ALL WARS

Yesterday morning I woke up late, I had nothing to care about cause it was the first day of deserved holiday. While having my coffee, I put the radio on and heard some awful news: the US, UK and France launched missile strikes against targets in Syria. The military action was to punish the Syrian regime for an alleged chemical weapon attacks on civilians.

Yesterday night before I went to bed I heard that president Emmanuel Macron, supported by president Donald Trump alongside prime Minister Theresa May wanted to launch a diplomatic initiative over Syria after launching missiles. It's a joke, isn't it?

 Those three allies (US, FRANCE, UK) seem to rule the entire world and they expect Russia and Turkey to join them around the table to promote PEACE!!! That bloody war started seven years ago and nothing had ever been done to stop the massacre!

I just can’t believe how the world is going mad. Too much ego undermines those new political leaders; they just want to show off but we pay the consequences! At the end of the day, it’s just a waste of time; money (13 missiles launched for 16 million Euros) and very dangerous cause without no doubt their funny behaviour create disorder in our daily life and to a larger scale it might lead to a World War3. They haven’t learnt from the past yet!

The amount of money that all nations invest into weapons could easily feed the whole planet, bring joy to all people into crisis and of course would stop WARS. That’s why I can’t get on well with politicians, they don’t have any logical sense, live for them and spend their mandate on lying. Welcome to the POLITRICKS arena

Stop killing people

Stop the War on Syria

Endless War for Empire