Fiche de révision : Banksy et les comparatifs anglais

📋 Plan du Cours

1. Banksy, art et contestation sociale
2. Formation des comparatifs et superlatifs
3. Formes irrégulières et orthographe
4. Comparaison des adverbes
5. Vocabulaire et rappels grammaticaux

📖 1. Banksy, art et contestation sociale

★ À maîtriser

• Banksy is an anonymous British street artist, activist and feminist.

• Banksy uses stencils in his street art.

• The course asks how Banksy uses street art to challenge society and studies the axes of art and power and human beings and nature.

Compléments

• In the 1990s, Banksy became involved in the graffiti scene.

💡 Astuce mémo

Art de rue anonyme contre marché de l’art millionnaire

📖 2. Formation des comparatifs et superlatifs

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• With short adjectives, the comparative is formed with -er and the superlative with the -est, as in dark, darker than, the darkest.

• With adjectives ending in y, y changes to i before -er or -est, as in funny, funnier than, the funniest.

• With long adjectives, the comparative uses more ... than and the superlative uses the most ..., as in powerful, more powerful than, the most powerful.

• Than follows a comparative and the precedes a superlative.

Compléments

• In the sentence “This mural is darker than the first one”, darker compares two murals.

💡 Astuce mémo

Court : -er/-est ; en y : -ier/-iest ; long : more/the most

📖 3. Formes irrégulières et orthographe

★ À maîtriser

• The irregular forms are:
  • good, better, the best
  • bad, worse, the worst
  • far, further, the furthest
  • little, less, the least
  • shy, shyer, the shyest

Compléments

📌 The spelling examples are big, bigger, the biggest and nice, nicer, the nicest.

• The course gives the forms dangerous, more dangerous, the most dangerous and messy, messier, the messiest.

• The worksheet includes these adjective forms:

  • tall/taller/tallest
  • cheap/cheaper/cheapest
  • lazy/lazier/laziest
  • pretty/prettier/prettiest
  • happy/happier/happiest
  • quiet/quieter/quietest

💡 Astuce mémo

GBFL : good, bad, far, little

📖 4. Comparaison des adverbes

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📌 For short adverbs, the comparative and superlative can use -er and the -est, as in hard, harder, the hardest and early, earlier, the earliest.

📌 For adverbs ending in -ly, the comparative uses more ... and the superlative uses the most ..., as in carefully, more carefully, the most carefully.

Compléments

• The worksheet gives these adverb forms: quickly/more quickly/the most quickly, slowly/more slowly/the most slowly, beautifully/more beautifully/the most beautifully, fluently/more fluently/the most fluently

• The irregular adverb forms include:

  • well, better, the best
  • badly, worse, the worst
  • far, farther, farthest

💡 Astuce mémo

Adverbe court : -er/-est ; adverbe en -ly : more/the most

📖 5. Vocabulaire et rappels grammaticaux

🔑 Notions clés & Définitions

• Comparative : Signifie « comparatif » et sert à comparer deux éléments, par exemple “This artwork is more powerful than the other one.”
• Superlative : Signifie « superlatif » et sert à exprimer le degré le plus élevé, par exemple “This is the most striking artwork.”

★ À maîtriser

• Les structures rappelées sont:
  • passé simple : verbe en -ed ou forme irrégulière
  • présent continu : be + verbe en -ing
  • passé continu : be au passé + verbe en -ing
  • present perfect : have + participe passé
  • present perfect continuous : have + been + verbe en -ing

Compléments

• Le vocabulaire du cours comprend funny = drôle, lucky = chanceux, dirty = sale, valuable = utile ou précieux, cheap = pas cher, scary = effrayant, crowded = bondé, heavy = lourd, quiet = calme, far = loin, fat = gros, messy = désordonné, noisy = bruyant, et thick = épais.

📌 Au présent simple, le verbe prend s à la troisième personne du singulier.

📊 Tableaux de synthèse

Formation des adjectifs comparatifs