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TEMPS ANGLAIS ET CORRESPONDANCE AVEC LES TEMPS FRANÇAIS

SIMPLE TENSES

PAST SIMPLE

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  • Used to describe actions that started in the past and that have finished.

  • For stories or events.

  • With the second conditional after the words like ‘wish’.
     

I ate cereal for breakfast.

I studied English at college.
I wish I had studied more.

IMPARFAIT/PASSE COMPOSE

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  • Correspond aussi au passe simple
    peu usité)
    - action révolue, appartenant
    entièrement au passé.

  • temps du récit ; structure avec « ago »

PRESENT SIMPLE 

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  • Used to describe habits, unchanging situations, and general truths.

  • To give instructions or directions

  • For fixed arrangements

  • With the future tense.
     

I go to the cinema on Saturdays.
I walk my dog in the morning.
Take the number 1 bus to Southampton.

PRESENT DE L’INDICATIF

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  • habitude

  • vérité générale

  • V d’état = perception, croyance,

  • certitude (think, see, answer, ponder, believe, etc.)

FUTURE SIMPLE 

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  • Used to describe things that haven’t happened yet.

  • When we make predictions or guesses about the future.

  • To make commands.


I will go to the cinema at the weekend.

I think France will win the World Cup.

You will need to complete the form before the end of the month.

NOTION DE FUTURITÉ

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  • quand il s’agit d’1 certitude(+ date, contexte, etc.)- en cas d’hypothèse

CONTINUOUS TENSES

PAST CONTINUOUS

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  • Used to describe a past action that has been interrupted or a habitual action that no longer occurs.  Often used with when to describe what interrupted the action.
     

I was studying last night

IMPARFAIT

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  • description dans le passé

  • action en cours dans le passé (souvent interrompue par une autre)

PRESENT CONTINUOUS 

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  • Used to describe an action at the moment of speaking.  It can also be used to describe a future planned event. 
     

Note: State verbs are not usually used in the continuous form.
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I am writing about the Present Continuous tense. 

You are reading. 

We are having a party on Saturday.

PRESENT DE L’INDICATIF/FUTUR SIMPLE
 

  • description (image, moment figé)

  • Action en cours

  • Enervement, insistance

  • V d’état utilisé comme V d’action

  • Expression du futur

FUTURE CONTINUOUS

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  • Used to point out that a future action will take place over a length of time and won’t happen all at once.

  • Used to make comparisons between the present and the future.

  • Used to say that more than one future event will be happening at the same time.


I will be taking my dog for a walk later.
 

FUTURE PROCHE OU D’INTENTION

 

  • Le futur proche est un temps particulier du mode indicatif qui exprime une action ou un état qui se produira dans un futur très rapproché. C'est un temps utilisé essentiellement dans le langage parlé.

PERFECT TENSES

PAST PERFECT/ PLUPERFECT

 

  • Used to describe a past action that happened before another past action.
     

  • Used when stating information that was said or reported by someone.
     

  • Used to express conditional statements.

 

I had just arrived at work when the telephone rang.

PLUS-QUE-PARFAIT

 

  • passé dans le passé 

  • concordance des temps avec simple past, be+ing au passé ou present perfect

PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS

 

  • Used to describe an action that began in the past, continued for a period of time, and ended in the past.

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I had been waiting for the train when they announced it had been cancelled.

IMPARFAIT

 

  • description dans le passé

  • action en cours dans le passé (souvent interrompue par une autre)

PRESENT PERFECT

 

  • Used to describe a state or action that happened or started in the past and that has some connection to the present and future.
     

  • The present perfect is often used with For and Since
     

They have lived in the UK all their lives.
 

They have lived here for 10 years.

 

They have lived here since 2010.

PRESENT DE L’INDICATIF

 

  • notion de bilan, résultat

  • débute dès le passé, continue dès le présent

  • Avec SINCE (date) ou FOR (durée

PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS

 

  • Refers to an action that began in the past, has continued to happen until the current moment, and will likely continue to happen for an unknown amount of time.
     

  • Can refer to specific periods of time or general periods of time.
     

  • Uses the adverbs lately and recently with the present perfect continuous tense to indicate an action began sometime in the recent past (and continued until the present)

  • Sometimes used without indicating a starting point at all.
     

It has been raining since this morning.

PRESENT DE L’INDICATIF/FUTUR SIMPLE

 

  • description (image, moment figé)

  • - action en cours

  • - énervement, insistance 

  • - V d’état utilisé comme V d’action

  • - Expression du futur

FUTURE PERFECT

 

  • Used to describe temporary actions and events that will be in progress at a particular time in the future.
     

I will be taking my dog for a walk later.

FUTURE PROCHE OU D’INTENTION

 

  • Le futur proche est un temps particulier du mode indicatif qui exprime une action ou un état qui se produira dans un futur très rapproché.

  • C'est un temps utilisé essentiellement dans le langage parlé.

FUTURE PERFECT CONTINUOUS
 

  • Used to describe a future action that will happen over a period of time before some other future event interrupts it or stops it.
     

  • Can often be used interchangeably with the future continuous tense.


I will have been working for this company for 10 years in January.

FUTURE PROCHE OU D’INTENTION

 

  • Le futur proche est un temps particulier du mode indicatif qui exprime une action ou un état qui se produira dans un futur très rapproché. C'est un temps utilisé essentiellement dans le langage parlé.

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