LAN-CLanguage: gap-fill, right option, tense and form

Put the bracketed words in the right tense or form

Idée directrice

The last language task gives a paragraph with words in brackets: a verb to conjugate (tense fixed by a time marker or by the sequence of tenses), or a base word to derive (noun, adjective, adverb, comparative, negative prefix). Half a point each. The paper mixes the two: (just/publish) wants has just published, (harm) wants harmful, (increase) wants increasingly.

Signature de reconnaissance — l'énoncé se trahit ainsi

« Supply the right tense or form of the bracketed words. (4 marks) » ; « Put the bracketed words in the right tense and / or form. (3 marks) » ; « Put the bracketed words in the correct tense or form »

Sujet principal

Language — Task 3: right tense or form (3 to 4 marks)

1 questionCorrigé masqué

III - LANGUAGE. Put the bracketed words in the right tense and / or form. (3.5 marks)

Since 2020, the town library (lend) ………… more than 40,000 books a year, twice as many as before the pandemic. Its (direct) ………… , Mrs Ben Ali, believes that the (grow) ………… success is due to the new opening hours: the library (stay) ………… open until nine on weekdays, which is (particular) ………… helpful for students. Last month it (organise) ………… its first night-time reading marathon, and the (young) ………… participant was only six.

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Answers: has lent (or has been lending) — director — growing — stays — particularly — organised — youngest.

Move EN-LANG-02 — bracketed word: tense or form. The tense is read from the marker: Since 2020 → present perfect; Last month → past simple; a habit stated as a fact (until nine on weekdays) → present simple. The form is read from the slot: after Its and before a name → noun of person (director); before the noun success → adjective (growing); before the adjective helpful → adverb (particularly); after the and with a superlative meaning (participant was only six) → youngest.

What is marked. 0.5 per bracket; a correct tense with a spelling error (organized is accepted, organiced is not) loses the half point; both parts of a two-word bracket must be right (just/publish → has just published).

Exercices d'entraînement — une nuance à la fois

Entraînement 01 / 02

Drill LAN-C.1 — Tense from the marker (common paper)

1 questionCorrigé masqué

III - LANGUAGE. Put the bracketed words in the right tense and / or form. (3 marks)

For two years now, a family from Sfax (travel) ………… around Africa in a van they (build) ………… themselves. Their three children (follow) ………… online lessons every morning, while the parents (write) ………… a daily blog for their 20,000 (read) ………… . « We (never/feel) ………… so free », the mother says.

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Answers: have been travelling (or have travelled) — built — follow — write — readers — have never felt.

Move EN-LANG-02. For two years now → present perfect (continuous); a finished past action → built; habits (every morning) → present simple; noun of person after a number → readers; never inside a present perfect → have never felt.

Entraînement 02 / 02

Drill LAN-C.2 — Derived forms and the passive

1 questionCorrigé masqué

III - LANGUAGE. Put the bracketed words in the correct tense and / or form. (3 marks)

The (pollute) ………… of the river was first (report) ………… by fishermen in 2018. Since then the water quality (improve) ………… slightly, but scientists remain (caution) ………… : the (chemistry) ………… waste that (dump) ………… illegally twenty years ago is still in the mud.

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Answers: pollution — reported — has improved — cautious — chemical — was dumped.

Move EN-LANG-02. The … of the river → noun pollution; was first … by → passive participle reported; Since then → present perfect; after remain → adjective cautious; before waste → adjective chemical; twenty years ago with an undergoing subject → past passive was dumped.

Méthode / Automatismes

Underline the time markers first: since, last, ago, for, every day, while — they fix the tense.
For a bare word, look at the word just before and just after the blank: article + blank + noun → adjective; blank + verb → adverb.
Two-word brackets (just / publish) build the tense around the adverb: has just published.
Passive when the subject undergoes the action: (disadvantage) → are disadvantaged.
Check the subject–verb agreement and the irregular past participles (risen, lent, written).

Pièges classiques

The classic loss is the wrong tense with the right verb (lent for has lent after since), and the missing suffix on a derived word (particular for particularly). Second loss: leaving the base word untouched when it « looks right » in the sentence.