Study guide FRN114 Grammar/Grammatika - Faculty of The ...

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Dictionary know-how 1
(PLEASE CONSULT PAGE 16 FOR ABREVIATIONS USED IN DICTIONARIES)
1. Using page headings (7)
In order to help you find what you are looking for quickly, every page of the main section of the dictionary
has a word at the top which identifies the first entry on that page. In this exercise the left-hand column contains a
list of entries and the right-hand column a selection of page headings. Choose the page where you would expect
to find the entry you are looking for.
Entry Page Headings
encourager énerver / enseigne en / énervé
historique hâte / histoire historique / hôtesse
liquide librairie / loge loge / luge
mener mélanger / mesure mesurer / million
renseigner reine / rendre renne / requin
sérieux séjour / serré serrer / siège
vieil version / vietnamien vieux / vitesse
2. Checking the gender of French nouns (12)
Here are some English nouns which appear in the English-French half of the dictionary. Find out what their
French equivalents are and make two separate lists, masculine nouns and feminine nouns.
bag hippopotamus magic cake shop island thunderstorm
doorbell library peach raincoat waitress felt-tip pen
3. Identifying French adverbs (6)
Masculine nouns Feminine nouns
Here is a list of eight French words. Five of them are adverbs and three are not. Underline the ones which are
not, or make a list, and say what they are. If you are not sure of some of them, look them up in the French-
English half of the dictionary.
absolument enseignement seulement vêtement
heureusement facilement énormément médicament
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Total/Totaal = 25/2.5=10
Source/Bron: CORRÉARD, M-H & O’NIELL, M (Ed), 2000. Oxford Starter French Dictionary. Oxford University Press.