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You could win a trip for two to a Canadian destination of your choice. The prize includes transportation provided by Air Canada and $2000 spending money.
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The French expressions parler en grandeur and parler à la grandeur are Acadianisms, that is, expressions used in Acadian French.
What do these expressions mean?
- a)to use fancy words
- b)to talk non-stop
- c)to use your hands while talking
The French expression pelleter des nuages is common in Canada, but it isn’t used elsewhere in the Francophonie.
What does the expression pelleter des nuages mean?
- a)to shovel light snow
- b)to waste your time coming up with unrealistic ideas
- c)to find your way in fog
In Canada, the French word nanane appears in many expressions, including c’est du nanane, enfant de nanane and rose nanane.
What does enfant de nanane refer to?
- a)a badly behaved child
- b)a child who has eaten too much candy
- c)a well behaved child
In Canadian French, the reflexive verb s’épivarder has several meanings, including “to get some air, to have fun outdoors, to stretch your legs.”
Conjugate the verb s’épivarder in the following sentence. Nous nous ______ sur les pistes de ski avant qu’il se mette à faire trop froid.
- a)serons épivardé
- b)serons épivardés
- c)seront épivardé
The French verb garrocher, which is used all over Canada’s Francophonie, means “to throw.”
Conjugate the verb garrocher in the following sentence. En ce beau jour d’été, les enfants ______ des cailloux dans le lac.
- a)garrochèrent
- b)garrochèrrent
- c)garrocherèrent
The contest questions were prepared by the Language Portal of Canada, an initiative of Public Services and Procurement Canada’s Translation Bureau.
