Year 11 QDN Senior Chapitre 2 Le vocabulaire

Idioms: avoir une faim de loup

• it's very expensive

• to be so hungry one could eat a horse

• to feel good about yourself

Answer explanation

To have the hunger of a wolf (literal translation)

Ça ____________ les yeux de la tête - it's very expensive

A diet in French is

• une alimentation

• des légumes

• un régime

• une regime

Comment on dit en français: exhausted

• exigeant(e)

• sain(e)

• épuisé(e)

• tendu(e)

Verbs: 'améliorer' ça veut dire en français?

• to fail

• to pass

• to improve

Answer explanation

ameliorate in English means to make better

Le verbe on peut utiliser pour 'to avoid' est __________.

la bonne humeur

• good mood

• good sense of humour

Answer explanation

good sense of humour is sens de l'humeur

How do you think you have done this term? What areas of the language do you think you need to practice more?

• expressions of time

• adverbs of frequency

• pronouns y and en

• the perfect tense

• the imperfect tense

à l'abri

• at the tree

• at the shed

• to be sheltered

• to be protected from

tenir en haleine

• to hold one's breath

• to keep in suspense

• to be held spellbound

• to have bad breath

Answer explanation

to hold one's breath - retenir son souffle