Observe and deduce!
Lisez la citation suivante. Repérez les verbes à particules et utilisez le contexte pour en
proposer une traduction.
“We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy—sun, wind and tide. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”
Thomas Edison, 1931.
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Practice!
Look est l’un des verbes qui peut être associé à un grand nombre de particules différentes.
Complétez ces phrases avec l’un d’entre eux en utilisant les définitions entre parenthèses.
1) I am looking trying his brand new electric bike! (= await with excitement)
2) If politicians don’t, who will look the planet? (= take care of)
3) Scientists are looking new solutions. (= try to find)
4) Look , it’s boiling hot! (= be careful)
5) It looks a new heatwave is starting. (= resemble / appear likely to happen)
D. Vocabulary in Progress
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Complétez ce texte à l’aide des mots suivants.
“Let’s face it, the environmental challenge ahead of us is the biggest we have ever known. We
must stop ; it is to rethink our ways of life right now. Everybody, at his or
her own can, and must, do something so that we manage to our emissions.
We don’t need technology to make a difference. We can start with little things: using devices, or biking when we can, buying and seasonal foods, etc.
And there are many initiatives all over the world.”