What people do: 'en', meaning 'in' and 'by' | French | Quizalize & Oak National Academy

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Match the French words below to the correct English translations.
- acteur
  
  ⇔
  
  actor (male) ✓
- actrice
  
  ⇔
  
  actor (female) ✓
- garçon
  
  ⇔
  
  boy ✓
- fille
  
  ⇔
  
  girl ✓
- médecin
  
  ⇔
  
  doctor ✓
- personne
  
  ⇔
  
  person ✓
Which sound spelling correspondence (SSC) is not in 'quand'?
- silent final consonant (SFC)
- silent final -e (SFE) ✓
- [en/an]
- [qu]
What does 'en' mean in the instruction 'Écris en français.'?
- 'in' ✓
What does 'faire mauvais' mean in English?
- to have a long weekend
- to be good weather
- to be bad weather ✓
- to go for a boat ride
- to visit a town/city
Fill in the gap in the following sentence with the correct form of the verb 'faire': 'Je fais le lit et le garçon ______ les courses.'
- 'fait' ✓
Sort the words below into the correct order to translate the following sentence into French: 'I am English and quite short and he is French and very tall.'
- 1
  
  ⇔
  
  Je suis
- 2
  
  ⇔
  
  anglaise et
- 3
  
  ⇔
  
  assez
- 4
  
  ⇔
  
  petite et
- 5
  
  ⇔
  
  il est
- 6
  
  ⇔
  
  français et
- 7
  
  ⇔
  
  très grand.

Select the words that have the SSC [ç/c].
- collège
- curieuse
- ça s'écrit ✓
- ciel ✓
- comme
Match the French verbs below to the correct English translations.
- faire la cuisine
  
  ⇔
  
  to do the cooking ✓
- faire beau
  
  ⇔
  
  to be nice weather ✓
- faire une visite de
  
  ⇔
  
  to do a visit/tour of ✓
- faire les courses
  
  ⇔
  
  to do the food shopping ✓
- faire un voyage en bateau
  
  ⇔
  
  to go on a boat ride ✓
What does 'numéro' mean?
- answer
- question
- number ✓
- sentence
- word
What does 'faire la grasse matinée' mean?
- to have a long weekend
- to have a lie-in ✓
- to do an activity
- to go for a walk
- to make the bed
What does 'en' mean in the sentence 'Il parle en anglais.'?
- 'in' ✓
Sort the words below into the correct order to translate the following sentence into French: 'It's bad weather but I'm going on a tour of London.'
- 1
  
  ⇔
  
  Il
- 2
  
  ⇔
  
  fait
- 3
  
  ⇔
  
  mauvais
- 4
  
  ⇔
  
  mais
- 5
  
  ⇔
  
  je fais
- 6
  
  ⇔
  
  une visite
- 7
  
  ⇔
  
  de Londres.

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'En' always means 'in'.

Many words in French have more than one meaning. 'En' means 'in' and 'by'.