Ex. 47/Feeding the Hungry

Réponse : Ex. 47/Feeding the Hungry de chrys, postée le 17-07-2015 à 00:19:58 (S | E)
hello ...again

Pffffffffff, toutes les lettres se sont déplacées !
I haven't used all the letters, because I didn't know the other names ( I have only found 7). I think that I couldn't improve more, so I have posted it and you can correct when you want.
Have a good night !!
friendly,
Chrys

I just have found another list with fish names so I try again

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Réponse : Ex. 47/Feeding the Hungry de chrys, postée le 17-07-2015 à 02:05:10 (S | E)
Ca y est, j'ai tout trouvé !!!!! mais ça a été dur, je ne connaissais pas le vocabulaire !!!! Mais je l'ai eu à l'usure, ce jeu cet exercice !!! ouf !
Tu peux corriger quand tu veux et moi ... je vais dormir !
Bonne nuit !

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Réponse : Ex. 47/Feeding the Hungry de icare29, postée le 17-07-2015 à 17:58:06 (S | E)
Hello Here4u and all the hardworkers ... here is my work
I think it's OK for me
I) Translate into English :
1) I often find myself wondering why time seems to pass faster over the years . When I was thirteen , one year seemed centuries for me
2) Why give up habits when these ones were good . It would be better making a real sorting : keep the good ones and throw away the bad ones
3) I miss you terribly, but I am also lacking time , money and room for tidying up my belongings correctly
4) The more waited he made me ,the less meeting him I felt like and the angrier with him I was
5) With a lot of nostalgia ,he remembered the ends of school years of his childhood. A flood of reminiscences were rushing in his mind.

II) Vocabulary : This exercise made me completely crazy .... I confess I can't find any words
Congratulations to both Choco and Maxwell who are the best among us

III) Jim thinks he's finished his essay. He's just asked you to correct his mistakes. Can you help, please?
Oh yes , he remembered it .... it was the first time he had left his home , his parents and he was among strangers in foreign country. He asked himself how long he would feel so lonely and didn't know when he could answer .He knew he should wait for the next time to ask his friends their advice . He really needed these and would do his best in order to tell everyone about that new information .He would want to help the others.

for this new exercise ..very exciting but not easy..

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Réponse : Ex. 47/Feeding the Hungry de here4u, postée le 17-07-2015 à 18:24:13 (S | E)
ARGHHHHHHH!!! Stupid as I am, I hadn't noticed that the topic had changed pages... and I'm really behind with my work...
I hope the posts above didn't require an answer... I'm sorry if they did... I have a meeting in 5 minutes... I'll look when it's finished!

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Réponse : Ex. 47/Feeding the Hungry de here4u, postée le 18-07-2015 à 10:33:08 (S | E)
Hello !
Individual corrections on their way since yesterday... (should be finished to be sent by tomorrow...)
Ariane, I nearly forgot your latest try... Sorry for it. Will be sent today; I promise ...)
Thanks, maxwell! 'Got your work!
Please, Koreen, confirm if I can take yours, or should wait...
A wonderful day to all of you!

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Réponse : Ex. 47/Feeding the Hungry de here4u, postée le 18-07-2015 à 13:08:50 (S | E)
Hello maxwell!
Ah Maxwell! Here, you're facing teachers' worst dilemma...
I don't mean anything ... but Jim must have tried to express something, and you should help him! Your 'mission' is to guess what he may have tried to write ... and express it in the best possible way ! Hard mission... Some gave up, but a language teacher never does! Go for it!

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Réponse : Ex. 47/Feeding the Hungry de here4u, postée le 20-07-2015 à 22:56:44 (S | E)
Hello! Dear Friends!
Thank you to all of you for your excellent work... and Congrats to all of you...
I) Translate into English :

1) Il m'arrive souvent de me demander pourquoi le temps semble passer plus vite au fil des ans. Lorsque j'avais 13 ans, une année me paraissait des siècles.
I often happen to wonder why Time seems to go faster over the years. When I was 13, a year seemed like centuries, to me.
- il m’arrive de faire = I happen to do
- Se demander = to ask oneself ; => I ask myself = I wonder.
- le temps = le temps en général => pas de déterminant => Time
- as years go by
- sembler = to seem like, to feel like …

2) Pourquoi abandonner des habitudes quand elles étaient bonnes. Il vaudrait mieux faire un tri réel : garder le bon et jeter le mauvais ....
Why give up habits, when they were good. It would be better to have them sorted out carefully: keeping those which are good, and throwing the bad ones away …
- Why/Why not + infinitif SANS TO , (à retenir!)
- faire un tri = to sort out
- Attention si vous employez ‘make’: il a souvent le sens de ‘faire faire’ avec contrainte. Ici, personne ne vous obligeait à trier … =>To have something done => sens passif quelque chose est fait.
- jeter = to throw away / to discard

3) Tu me manques terriblement, mais je manque aussi de temps, d'argent et de place pour ranger correctement mes affaires.
I miss you tremendously, but I also lack time, money, and space to tidy up my things properly.
-I miss you =Tu me manques (= Je manque de toi !)
- On ne ‘miss’ pas le temps … You lack time, you run out of time, you want more time…

4) Plus il me faisait attendre, moins j'avais envie de le rencontrer, et plus j'étais en colère contre lui.
The more he was keeping me waiting, the less I was feeling like meeting him, and the angrier I was with him.
- Faire attendre = to keep someone waiting ;
- avoir envie = to feel like + ing
- revoir la progression parallèle … Plus, …. plus … THE MORE ….THE MORE …THE LESS …(c’est la forme comparative qui prend quand même le determinant 'the'.)
- the angrier / the more angry les deux conviennent.
- Bien faire attention au rejet du verbe en fin de phrase dans cette structure

5) Avec beaucoup de nostalgie, il se souvint des fins d'années scolaires de son enfance.
With a lot of nostalgia, he remembered the ends of the school years when he was a kid.
-J’ai choisi la simplicité ; THE ends of the school-years (parce que ces fins d’années sont déterminées par of, ce ne sont pas n’importe lesquelles.)

III) VOCABULARY ;

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|---S---------------S----H -----------------------|
|P---------------------------- E----S------U----|
|-----------T-------A -----------------------------|
|------------------------I-----R ---A------------|
|L--H------R-------L-------------- R----- N----|
|-------E-----------M -----------------------------|
|-----------O -----------T-----R----D -----------|
|A--A--------------------I-----------------A----|
|---------------O--------N-----I--- -I-------------|
|I--R----- -U-------O-----------------------------|
|C------L-- T------------G ----N----N------------|
|E--K ----------D --N----------G---- E------------|

De gauche à droite:
Plaice : carrelet
Shark:Requin
Eel : anguille
Trout:Truite
Cod :cabillaud, morue
Salmon:Saumon
Whiting:Merlan
Herring:Hareng
Sardine:Sardine
Tuna:Thon

Il me reste à vous dire pourquoi j’ai choisi les poissons : vieille nostalgie d’une habitude très britannique : ‘le fish and chips’ acheté dans les ‘Fish and chip shops’ à emporter ou à consommer sur place. C’était une vraie fête d’avoir le droit d’aller chercher ainsi son ‘repas exceptionnel’ avec les cousins … Je me souviens encore du goût du vinaigre qui était rajouté. (c’est ma ‘madeleine’ ...) Je choisissais toujours 'plaice and chips’ or ‘cod and chips’, sans savoir vraiment ce qu’était l’un ou l’autre … (je ne connais toujours pas le carrelet !) This exercise is to make up for my ignorance …


III) Jim thinks he’s finished his essay. He’s just asked you to correct his mistakes. Can you help?
Oh yes, he reminded it ... It was the first time he left her home, her parents, and was among stranger in a foreigner country. He asked to oneself how long he will feel so alone and didn't know what answering. He knew he would wait next time to ask his friends advices. He needed them really and will make his best telling them(7) about those news experiment.

Oh yes … He remembered(1) it … It was the first time he had left (2) his home, his parents, and was among strangers in a foreign country (3). He wondered (4) how long he would feel so lonely (5) and didn’t know what to answer. The following time(6), he knew he would wait to ask for his friends ‘ advice(7). He needed it really and would do his best, telling his friends(8) about those new experiments.
(1) : Différence entre ‘to remember stg ou sby’ = ‘I remember you!’= se souvenir ET ‘to remind sby OF stg’ :it reminded me of our holiday together= se rappeler de ; réviser le [[106510]]
(2) : It’s the first time + present perfect => It was the first time + plu perfect.
(3) : Différence entre ‘stranger’ = inconnu et ‘foreigner’ = étranger. Abroad = excellent.
(4) : ‘He wondered’ = ‘He asked himself’ introduction au passé => impose le conditionnel par concordance des temps. ATTENTION ! ‘To ask oneself ‘est l’expression neutre donnée dans les dictionnaires. Il faut , bien sûr, la décliner : I ask myself, he asks himself ….
(5) : alone = seul physiquement ; lonely = solitaire .
(6) : next (discours direct) devient => 'the following time' (discours indirect introduit par ‘il se demandait’.)
(7) : là, j’avais accumulé les difficultés … to ask for stg ; ‘his friends’ au pluriel => génitif par simple ‘ ; (J’ai déplacé ‘the following time’ au début, il pouvait être en fin de phrase …) ; ‘advice’ = les conseils = indénombrable singulier. => d’où le ‘it’ si vous aviez bien suivi Jim (qui était difficile à suivre … ! C’est comme ça, un élève ! )
(8) : ‘them’ est ambigu … donc, on répète le mot auquel se réfère le pronom.

Voilà ! Lorsque je regarde cette correction et vos prestations, j'ai vraiment l'impression que c'était facile ... Pardonnez-moi si vous n'êtes pas d'accord et avez souffert ... Merci encore pour ce temps que vous m'accordez, et ce travail que vous m'offrez!
Please, excuse any remaining error or typo...

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Réponse : Ex. 47/Feeding the Hungry de chrys, postée le 20-07-2015 à 23:48:02 (S | E)
Dear Here4u,
Thanks a lot for this marvellous and detailed correction, as usual !!!
Good night ...
Chrys

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