Chapter 2 French Test

Likes and dislikes:

Tu aimes (…) = Do you like(…)

Qu’est-ce que tu aimes faire? = What do you like to do?

Oui, j’aime (…) Yes, I like(…)

Non, je n’aime pas (...) = No, I don’t like

Non, je deteste (...) = No, I hate

Examples :

Likes and Dislikes Vocab:

Le chocolat ; chocolate - masculine

Les frites ; fries - plural

les mathématiques ; mathematics - feminine plural

Quebec

La Gaspésie

The eastern tip of the Gaspe Peninsula is known for its enormous limestone rock formation, le Rocher Percé.

Les Laurentides

The Laurentides region, north of Montreal, has spectacular foliage in the fall.

Ontario

Le hockey

Ice hockey is the most popular sport in Quebec.

Le Nord du Québec

Wildlife, like the caribous and moose, have adapted to the conditions of this harsh landscape.

Les aurores boréales

In July, you can enjoy the remarkable phenomenon of the northern lights from the Mont Cosmos Observatory, south of Quebec City.

Montréal

is the second largest French-speaking city in the world, after Paris.

Le Saint-Laurent

You can see a great variety of large sea mammals like whales, dolphins, and sea lions in this river.

Gastronomie

La cipâte aux bleuets

This traditional pie is made with a kind of blueberry found in Canada.

La tourtiere

This Quebec specialty is a meat pie, usually made from minced pork and spices.

Le sirop d'érable

In early spring, many people go to a cabane à sucre to enjoy the traditional hot maple syrup poured onto a bed of fresh snow and scooped up with wooden sticks.

La pêche blanche

This sport was handed down from the Inuits and Amerindians. People fish through holes cut in the thick ice that covers rivers and lakes in the winter.

Le canoë

In the summer, people enjoy canoeing on the many waterways that Quebec has to offer.

A Les traîneaux à chiens

Dogsledding provided transportation to the Inuits, settlers, and fur traders for hundreds of years. Today,

"Mushing" (traveling on snow with a dog sled) provides adventures through the wilderness.

Fêtes et festivals

L'International de montgolfières
This festival in Saint-Jean lasts for ten days.
You can admire hot air balloons of all shapes and colors here.

Le Festival international de jazz de Montréal

Jazz musicians from all over the world participate in over 400 concerts every summer during this festival.

Le Carnaval de Québec

This is the biggest winter carnival in the world. Among the numerous festivities, an ice palace is built for Bonhomme Carnaval, the mascot of the carnival.

Histoire

Samuel de Champlain,

sent by the king of France to map the St. Lawrence River, made the fur trade flourish and established ties with native peoples. He founded Quebec City in 1608.

Jacques Cartier

explored the St. Lawrence River in the 1530s while searching for a route to Asia. He claimed the area for France, landing on the sites that later became Quebec City and Montreal.