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Starter quiz

Identify the words with SFC (Silent Final Consonant).
- dans ✓
- malade
- prix ✓
- au revoir
- petit ✓
Match the French adjectives to the English.
- anglais/anglaise
  
  ⇔
  
  English ✓
- cher/chère
  
  ⇔
  
  expensive ✓
- français/française
  
  ⇔
  
  French ✓
- grand/grande
  
  ⇔
  
  big ✓
- méchant/méchante
  
  ⇔
  
  mean ✓
- petit/petite
  
  ⇔
  
  small ✓
Match the high frequency verbs.
- je suis
  
  ⇔
  
  I am ✓
- tu es
  
  ⇔
  
  you are ✓
- il est
  
  ⇔
  
  he is ✓
- j'ai
  
  ⇔
  
  I have ✓
- tu as
  
  ⇔
  
  you have ✓
- il a
  
  ⇔
  
  he has ✓
Because of grammatical gender rules in French nouns, the two words for 'a/an' are ______ and 'une'.
- 'un' ✓
What is the rule for making most adjectives feminine?
- 'add an -e' ✓
Write the English for the French pronouns 'je', 'tu', 'il' and 'elle'
- 'I, you, he she' ✓

Match the French phrase to the English meaning.
- amie
  
  ⇔
  
  female friend ✓
- chanteuse
  
  ⇔
  
  female singer ✓
- professeure
  
  ⇔
  
  female teacher ✓
- professeur
  
  ⇔
  
  male teacher ✓
- ami
  
  ⇔
  
  male friend ✓
- chanteur
  
  ⇔
  
  male singer ✓
Which phonics rule is present in the words 'timide', 'monde', 'femme' and 'une'?
- SFC
- SFe ✓
- liaison
What does the adjective 'vrai' mean in English?
- false
- interesting
- nice
- true ✓
Match the sentence halves.
- Je
  
  ⇔
  
  suis amusante. ✓
- C'est une amie
  
  ⇔
  
  intéressante. ✓
- C'est un homme
  
  ⇔
  
  content. ✓
- Tu
  
  ⇔
  
  es malade? ✓
'He, she is' (il est, elle est) can also be translated as ...
- 'c'est' ✓
'Timide' requires an extra 'e' in the feminine form. True or false?
- 'false' ✓

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'C'est' only translates to 'it is/that is'.

When talking about objects, 'c'est' translates to 'it is/that is' but when applied to people it can also mean 'he/she is'.

Sfe - silent final -e
Person noun - a noun used for a person e.g. un professeur
Cognate - words with the same meaning and same or similar spelling in English and French