FILE FOUR (4)
I °) « Used to » define an action in the past. we replace it by the simple past.
A)-Replace the underlined verbs by its equivalent:
-He used to be a doctor = He …………………a doctor.
- She used to work here = She ………………………here.
- They used to live in caves = They ………………………in
caves.
b)- correct the verbs between brackets:
1- In the past , early people (to use to hunt)
……………………… animals by bows and arrows.
2- years ago, the sahara (to use to be)…………..
…………………… a sea.
C) turn these sentences into the negative form:
1- She used to be a teacher She…………………………………………………………………
2- They used to play well They……………………………………………………………..
d) ask questions:
A: …………………………………………………………….?
B: no, they didn’t use to hunt by guns.
A: …………………………………………………………….?
B: yes , they used to hunt by bows and
Arrows. Early people used to live in caves.
1-…………………………………………………………….?
2-…………………………………………………………….?
E) how life used to be at the primary school? WRITE A SHORT PARAGRAPH .
I used to go to ……………………………………primary school……………………………………………………………………………..
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
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……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
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II) relative pronouns: which – who – where – that .
A) Put in : who – which – where:
1- The tassili is a peaceful place …………………tourists can see cave arts.
2- I read the book …………………….you lend me.
3- This the man ……………….stole my bag.
b) combine the two sentences using a relative pronoun:
1-Graham Bell was a great inventor. He invented the telephone.
*………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
2-People prefer traveling by plane.The plane is the fastest mean of transport.
*……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
3- This is the place . The accident happened in this place.
*………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
C) ) change “that” by who or which:
1- This is the woman that bought my car.
2- This is the picture that shows my house.
d) read this passage:
The children of the past used to live in very bad conditions. They had very short time for games. As there were no schools where they would get some learning they helped their parents at home and outside.
Boys, who had to go to the fields and forests used to collect wood, participate in the operations of sowing and take the animals for grazing; Girls who used to participate in the preparation of food, washing the different items of the family, fetching water from rivers.
The children, then, grew in difficult conditions lacked the basic things which they needed for their development. They did not use to eat properly and did not recover quickly when they fell ill because their society did not possess the right technology and the necessary means to offer them such simple facilities.
a)-Read & answer:
1- Give a title to the text.
-………………………………………………..
2- Did children use to go to school?
-…………………………………………………………
3- What did girls use to do in the past? -……………………………………………………………….
b)- what do the underlined words refer
to?
- Where …………………
-who ……………….
-which ……………………
III) definition: (match each word with its definition)
words definition
1- Computer
2- The internet
3- E-mail
4- To chat a- To talk in easy and relaxed way.
b- Programmable machine that stores information.
c- Net work system that connects computers around the world.
d- An electronic letter from a computer to an other computer.
IV) biography :
Thomas Edison was a famous inventor . He was born in 1847, in the United States of America . He went to school but he stopped after three months because he didn’t like the teacher . His mother taught him Maths at home.
He invented the telegraph in 1864.At the age of 22, he was a millionaire . He continued his researches and invented the lamp in 1879. He died in 1931.
a) Read & complete:
Name:…………………………………….
Nationality:………………………….
Date of birth:………………………..
Job:………………………………….
Date of death:……………………………
b) Read& complete:
1847 He…………………………………………………
1864 He ………………………………………………
………. He was a billionaire.
………. He invented the lamp.
1931 He……………………………….
IIV) Diphthongs:
Classify the following words according to the pronunciation of their diphthongs:
Hi – boy – house – know –chair –hear-may – pure- there – toy –here-cow-go-they- cry-tour.
/au/ /əu/ /ei/ /ai/ /ie/ /eə/ /Oi/ /uə/
-Now
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- -no
-
- -day
-
- -buy
-
- -ear
-
- -air
-
- -oil
-
- -sure
-
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Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was born on November 2nd, 1847 in Ohio, USA. He was a great American inventor. As a boy, he loved adventures. Later, he worked as a telegraph operator. At the age of twenty-two, he went to New Jersey, where he set up a factory. He was interested in electrical problems. During his carrier, he patented more than1.000 inventions, including the electric light ,the phonograph(talking machine)and the motion picture camera. Form 1879 to 1900, Edison produced most of his devices. The American call this period ‘’the age of Edison’’. Thomas Edison died in 1931.
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Thomas Edison was a famous inventor . He was born in 1847, in the United States of America . He went to school but he stopped after three months because he didn’t like the teacher . His mother taught him Maths at home.
He invented the telegraph in 1864.At the age of 22, he was a millionaire . He continued his researches and invented the lamp in 1879. He died in 1931.
Ibn Sina
Ibn Sina was born in the year 371of the Higria, near Bukhara, a large city in Uzbekistan. He learnt the Koran before he was ten. At the age of twenty, he was already a well-known doctor. One of his patients was the sultan of Bukhara. He treated him for a serious illness. When he was cured, the grateful sultan allowed Ibn Sina to come to his private library in the palace for reading different books of medicine.
Life became difficult in Bukhara during the Turks’ period. So, he left the town and travelled round the arab world. He wrote “The Canon Of Medicine” and a lot of other books. He died at the age of 57.
Abdelhamid Ibn Badis
Abdelhamid Ibn Badis was born in Constantine on the 4th December 1889. When he was 13 years old, El Cheikh Mohamed El Madassi taught him Arabic language and helped him to learn the Koran.
After that, his father sent him to El Zaytouna University in Tunisia. He stayed there two years; he studied hard until he had the license.
When he came back to Algeria, he had good ideas. He used them to develop the society. He loved his country and he loved the mosque too; he made it the center of teaching Arabic and Islamic religion. For this objective, he made a program. He taught young persons in the evening, men the day and women every Friday.
Abdelhamid Ibn Badis was a teacher and a writer. He wrote four newspapers: El Souna, El Sirat, El Chihab and El Mountakad. He also wrote poems. «Chabou El Djazairi moslim» which means «Algerians are moslim» is very famous.
In 1936, he founded «Djamiate Oulama El mouslimine» and was its first president. El Cheikh El Bachir El Ibrahimi was his assistant.
Abdelhamid Ibn Badis was a great and famous personality and he will be our example for ever.