What it is: You answer a question about the text in a few words, taken from the text. No full sentence needed.
The instruction on the paper: Répondez aux questions suivantes. → Answer the following questions.
Example: Répondez aux questions suivantes.: Construit en 2019, le refuge des Aiguilles accueille chaque été des milliers de randonneurs. Son gardien, Pierre, y vit de juin à septembre. Son principal défi : l’eau. Il n’y a pas de source à proximité, si bien qu’il doit récupérer la neige fondue et la filtrer avant de la boire. Il a aussi installé des panneaux solaires, car aucune ligne électrique ne monte jusqu’au refuge.
Répondez aux questions suivantes.
Pourquoi Pierre a-t-il installé des panneaux solaires ?
Answer
Step by step
- Répondez aux questions suivantes.
- Answer the following questions.
- Pourquoi… ?
- why? Look for car, puisque
- si bien que
- so that: a result follows
- Quels mots montrent que… ?
- which words show that…?
- Qu’est-ce qui… ?
- what…? (the subject)
- Depuis quand… ?
- since when?
Remember: Give exactly what the question asks: complete, but nothing extra.
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Nail the short answer
1
Spot the question word
Pourquoi, comment, quels mots?
2
Find the line
Stay in the lines given.
3
Cut to the answer
Keep only the words that answer.
4
Write it
A few words. Check nothing is missing.
Question word → Find → Cut → Write
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Example: Quels mots montrent… ?: Lorsqu’il a annoncé à sa famille qu’il quittait la banque pour devenir boulanger, Thomas s’attendait à des critiques. Sa mère, au contraire, l’a encouragé dès le premier jour. Son père, lui, a mis plus de temps à accepter ce choix ; il vient pourtant désormais acheter son pain chaque matin.
Répondez aux questions suivantes.
Quels mots montrent que le père de Thomas a fini par accepter son choix ?
Answer
Step by step
Do
- Answer exactly what is asked.
- Use words from the text.
- Check the answer is complete.
Don't
- Add the next idea too.
- Write a long sentence.
- Answer from your own ideas.