Skydiving is more dangerous than golf

Fiches d’Anglais

Comparatives:

Skydiving is more dangerous than golf.

🡪 for equality

I think parachuting is as exciting as fishing.

🡪 For not equality

Badminton is not as dangerous as boxing.

ATTENTION:

Good 🡪 Better

Bad 🡪 Worse 🡪 WORST c’est pour les superlatif

Easy 🡪 Easier

Little 🡪 less

Much 🡪 More

Far 🡪 Further

Have to:

🡪 Positive form

I/You/We/They + have to + base verb

He/She/It + has to + base verb

🡪 Negative form

I/You/We/They + don’t have to + verb

He/She/It + doesn’t have to + verb

🡪 Interrogative form

Do + I/You/We/They + have to + verb

Does + He/She/It + have to + verb

Prepositions:

In:

• Months (in February)
• Year (in 1947)
• The evening
• The afternoon
• The morning

At:

• Specific times (at 6 o’clock
• Week-end
• Night

On:

• 21 of February
• days (Monday, Tuesday)

Conditionals:

• Zero conditional

If + present simple + , + present simple.

Or

Present simple + if + present simple

We use the zero conditional for things that are:

• Facts
• Rules
• Instructions

Ex: If I go on holiday, I prefer activity holidays.

• First conditional

If + subject + present simple + subject + will+ base verb (base verb is without to).

If + subject + (Don’t/doesn’t) + base verb + subject + won’t + base verb.

Will + subject + base verb + If + subject + present simple.

We use the first conditional for:

• Predictions: If we do not leave now, we will miss the train.
• Offers: If you want, I will do the dishes.
• Warnings: If you touch that, you will get an electric shock.
• Threats: If you do that again, I will call the police.

• Second conditional 

If + past simple, _____ would + infinitive

We use the 2nd conditional for impossible situations.

Ex: If I had 1 000 000 pounds, I wouldn’t be a student.

If I weren’t an English teacher, I would be an engineer.

ATTENTION : EXCEPTION 🡪 Avec le 2nd conditional, on utilise were à la place de be, même avec I/He etc.

• Third conditional

If (past perfect), ______ would/wouldn’t have + past participle.

We use third conditional for:

• Past situations
• Unreal situations

Ex:

If I hadn’t come to Kaplan, my English wouldn’t have improved.

Definite article or zero article?

🡪 Definite article:

• Refers to something mentioned before

Ex: The results of the two studies…

• Refers to a system or service

Ex: … the internet has made it easier to follow what stars do and say.

• With superlatives

Ex: … the happiest and most successful people in society

• With adjectives to describe a group of people

Ex: Clearly, people in the news influence the young

• With names for regions, seas and states

Ex: Investigations in the USA, the Far East and the UK show…

🡪 Zero article

• Refers generally to countable nouns

Ex: … would prefer to be famous than be doctors, teachers or businesspeople.

• Refers generally to uncountable nouns

Ex: Depression is five times normal rate for performers

• With names for continents, countries and cities

Ex: Recent research in France shows that…

Used to:

It’s use to speak about past habits or past states. 🡪 all the time for finished actions.

Ex:

I used to play the piano for 2 hours every day.

I used to live in a tiny house in Manchester.

Useful collocations:

• Have a minimal impact on…
• Empower the local people
• Have a travel experience
• Indigenous peoples feel disrespected
• Maltreated animals

Exprimer le fait que l’on est ennuyé :

• It’s gets on my nerves when people…
• I’m sick and tired of people (+ing)
• It really winds me up when people…

Collocations with intensifiers:

• He’s a highly successful businessman.
• It is highly competitive market to start a new business in.
• It was a bitterly cold morning.
• They were bitterly disappointed after they lost the game
• The car was seriously damaged.
• Tom’s teacher was seriously concerned about his recent behaviour.  

Phrasal verbs:

Phrasal verbs can be:

• Transitive: You need an object

Ex: I gave my homework in

• Intransitive: You don’t need object

Ex: I gave in.

• I looked up
• Hopped down
• Picked them up
• Let me down
• Driven away
• Get over
• Take over
• Chases away
• To give up
• Lighting up
• Call me back
• Put down
• Cut down
• Take up
• Come out
• Keep up with
• Do without

Present simple:

We use the present simple to talk about:

• Actions that happen regularly (often and repeated)

Ex: Jon plays football every Saturday with his friends

We always have a party at work for a colleague’s birthday.

• Things that are true all the time

Ex: It takes five hours to fly from one side of Australia to the other.

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