COMMENT TRADUIRE LE PASSE COMPOSE FRANCAIS
PRETERIT OU PRESENT PERFECT ?
L’action est clairement passée :
*soit on donne un repère de temps qui peut-être :
-une date passée (ex: in 1998)
-last day/month/year..
-yesterday
- ago
- une subordonnée qui situe l’action dans le passé
ex : “when I was a child”
* soit on demande un repère de temps avec :
when ?
Il n’y a pas de repère de temps.
Il peut y avoir un adverbe comme
ever/already/just
Bob Ferguson has travelled a lot: he has already been to Africa, to Kenya, to Canada...
He has done lots of things: he has swum next to dolphins, he has taken photos of wild animals, he
has eaten crocodile and snake meat. He has already played tennis at the top of a skyscraper: he
played tennis in Japan, two years ago.
Tous les verbes soulignés sont au present perfect: on fait le bilan des différentes expériences de
Bob ferguson. Le dernier verbe (encadré) est au prétérit car on apporte des précisions : ne précise
quand l’action s’est déroulée : il y 2 ans (two years ago)
Choisis entre present perfect et prétérit :
1) Bob Ferguson (already/be)……………… …to Canada.
2) He (go)........................................to Canada in 1998 and 1999.
3) .......................you ever...............................(travel) by plane?
4) Yes, I (travel/already)............................................................by plane.
5) When (take).....................you...........................;the plane?
6) I (take)....................................;the plane 3 years ago.
7) She (arrive).......................just........................................!
8) I (meet)..................................her yesterday.
Answers: 1) has already been 2) went 3) have…travelled 4) have already travelled 5) did you
take 6) took 7) has just arrived 8) met