French translation: eating out

A. Starter

Match the food and drink items by writing the letters in the grid below.
1= 2= 3= 4= 5= 6= 7= 8= 9= 10 = 11 = 12 =

French English
1. la viande a. spinach
2. le poisson b. potatoes
3. les légumes c. fish
4. les fruits de mer d. ham
5. les épinards e. cheese
6. les petits pois f. fruit juice
7. les pommes de terre g. red wine
8. les haricots verts h. vegetables
9. le jambon i. peas
10. le fromage j. meat
11. le vin rouge k. green beans
12. le jus de fruit l. seafood/shellfish

B. Translation warm-up

Translate the sentences, using the first letter of each French word to help you.

1. For my main course I’ll have the fish. (C. p. p. j. p. l. p.)

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2. What would you like to drink? (Q. e.–c. q. v. v. b.)

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3. I don’t like seafood very much. (J. n. a. p. b. l. f. d. m.)

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4. I don’t eat meat. (J. n. m. p. d. v.)

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5. What vegetables do you have? (Q. e.–c. q. v. a. c. l?)

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 French translation: eating out
C. Translate into English (Foundation)

1. Le samedi soir, je vais au café pour boire un jus de fruit avec mes amis.
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2. À midi, je préfère manger un sandwich au fromage ou une salade au jambon.
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3. J’adore aller au restaurant avec ma famille.
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4. Dimanche prochain, nous allons manger au restaurant avec ma tante et mes cousins.
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5. Hier soir, mes parents ont fêté l’anniversaire de ma mère dans un nouveau restaurant au
port.
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D. Translate into French (Foundation)

1. In the evening, I prefer to eat fish.

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2. What is your favourite dish?
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3. I eat vegetables every day.
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4. Next week, I am going to try the seafood at the restaurant at the beach.
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5. Last weekend, I met my friends at the café.
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E. Checklist

1. Have you added the right accents?

2. Check spellings and gender of nouns.
3. Check your verbs and tenses.
4. There are two ways of asking the question in D.2. Can you think of both ways?

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C. Translate into English (Higher)

Pour mon anniversaire, mes parents m’ont dit que je pouvais choisir un restaurant. Nous

sommes allés à un restaurant très chic et j’ai pris mon plat préféré: du poulet rôti avec des

pommes de terre et des épinards. C’était délicieux! Pendant les vacances scolaires, j’y

retournerai avec mes amis – si j’ai assez d’argent!

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D. Translate into French (Higher)

To celebrate the end of my exams, my grandparents reserved a table in a beautiful restaurant in

town. As I don’t eat red meat, I had the chicken with a white wine sauce and green beans.

When I go back there, I would like to try the seafood.

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E. Checklist

1. Have you added the right accents?

2. Check spellings and gender of nouns.
3. Check if you’ve used the definite/indefinite articles correctly (‘the’ or ‘a’).
4. Check adjective agreements.
5. Have you used the correct form of the verb? Look at the subject and tenses.

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Teaching notes

This resource is designed to develop translation skills with a focus on grammatical accuracy and
contains similar tasks to the new GCSE exam questions for all boards.
The resource is differentiated: all students complete the tasks on p.1 and then you can give
Foundation students p.2 while Higher students move straight onto p.3.

Translations below are suggestions only – there may be other possible correct translations. By
using the mark scheme suggested below, students can track their progress as they practise their
translation skills using our other similar worksheets on different topics.
For Foundation translations (individual sentences), allow two marks per sentence: one for
communicating the key message and one for grammatical accuracy, giving a total out of 10.
For Higher translations (short paragraphs), the answers are broken into six sections. Each
section can be given one mark for communication and one mark for grammatical accuracy, to
give a total out of 12.

Answers

A. Starter

1=j 2=c 3=h 4=l 5=a 6=i 7=b 8=k 9=d 10 = e 11 = g 12 = f

B. Translation warm-up

1. Comme plat principal, je prends le poisson.

2. Qu’est-ce que vous voulez boire?
3. Je n’aime pas beaucoup les fruits de mer.
4. Je ne mange pas de viande.
5. Qu’est-ce que vous avez comme légumes?

C. Foundation translation into English

1. On Saturday evenings, I go to the café to drink a fruit juice with my friends.

2. At lunchtime (at midday), I prefer to eat a cheese sandwich or a ham salad.
3. I love going to the restaurant with my family.
4. Next Sunday, we are going to eat at the restaurant with my aunt and my cousins.
5. Yesterday evening (last night), my parents celebrated my mother’s birthday in a new
restaurant at the port.

D. Foundation translation into French

1. Le soir, je préfère manger du poisson.

2. Quel est (C’est quoi) votre (ton) plat préféré?
3. Je mange des légumes tous les jours.
4. La semaine prochaine, je vais goûter les fruits de mer au restaurant à la plage.
5. Le weekend dernier, j’ai retrouvé mes amis (mes copains) au café.

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C. Higher translation into English

For my birthday, my parents told me that I could choose a restaurant. / We went to a very smart
restaurant and I had my favourite dish: / roast chicken with potatoes and spinach. It was
delicious! / In the school holidays / I will go back (return) there with my friends / - if I have
enough money!

D. Higher translation into French

Pour fêter la fin de mes examens / mes grands-parents ont réservé une table dans un beau
restaurant en ville. / Comme je ne mange pas de viande rouge, / j’ai pris le poulet avec une
sauce au vin blanc et des haricots verts. / Quand j’y retournerai, / je voudrais goûter les fruits
de mer.

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