School and college life in FrenchWriting and translation - school life - Foundation
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Writing and translation questions - school life - Foundation
Translation
Translate the following sentences into French.
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It is a big school.
C’est un grand collège. / C’est une grande école. / C’est un grand lycée.
Watch out for word order, especially with adjectiveUsed to describe nouns and must agree with the nouns they are describing.. Grand goes before a nounThe name of a thing such as an object, a place or a person. Nouns are often described as naming words., and it must agree with the genderNouns in French or Spanish are classified into two groups: masculine or feminine. Each noun therefore has a 'gender'. of the noun. See the Adjectives study guide for more information.
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I have a French lesson every Thursday.
J’ai un cours de français tous les jeudis. / J’ai un cours de français chaque jeudi. / J’ai un cours de français le jeudi.
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There are thirty modern classrooms in the school.
Il y a trente salles de classe modernes dans l’école / le collège.
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I walk to school every day.
Je vais au collège à pied tous les jours. / Je vais au collège à pied chaque jour.
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Last week I watched a film in my English lesson.
La semaine dernière, j’ai regardé un film pendant mon cours d’anglais.
Dernier is an adjective so it needs to be in the feminineAll nouns in French are either masculine or feminine. form to agree with la semaine.
