Describe in English what a noun is.
A noun is a word that names something, such as a person, place, thing, or idea.
British vs. American:
What is the british word for "cookie"?
Bisquit.
Which Nobel Price did Nelson Mandela win in 1993?
Nobel Peace Price
When do we celebrate Valentine's day?
The 14th of February.
Which movie starring Hilary Swank did we watch last year?
Freedom Writers
What is the difference between chips in British English and American English?
AE- Potato chips
What is an irregular verb?
A verb in which the past tense is not formed by adding the usual -ed ending.
Who stated the quote “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”?
Nelson Mandela
When do we celebrate International Women’s Day?
The 8th of March.
What is "moral responsibility" in norwegian?
Moralsk ansvar.
Name at least two tenses in English.
Simple present, present progressive, simple past, past progressive, future...
Name at least four punctuation marks in English.
Period (full stop), comma, apostrophe, quotation, question, exclamation, brackets, braces, parenthesis, dash, hyphen, ellipsis, colon, semicolon.
What is the Declaration of Human Rights in Norwegian?
Menneskerettighetserklæringen.
What is an Advent wreath in Norwegian?
Adventskrans.
According to Erin Gruwell (the teacher in "Freedom Writers"), which gang is the most famous gang in history?
The Nazis.
What is the genitive/possessive case in grammar?
The genitive case is when we add apostrophe S ('s) to show possession, that something belongs to another or a type of relationship between things.
What is a contraction?
Norwegian: kontraksjon.
A contraction is a shortened version of the spoken and written forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters and sounds.
Which island was Nelson Mandela sentenced to prison on?
Robben Island
When does Advent begin?
It begins on the Sunday nearest November 30, the feast day of St. Andrew the Apostle, and covers four Sundays.
Choose one question:
1. How old was Anne Frank when she died?
2. In which concentration camp did Anne Frank die?
3. In which city do you find the Anne Frank Museum?
1. 15 years old.
2. Bergen-Belsen
3. Amsterdam
When do we use it is/there is?
We use "it" when we're talking about the weather, temperature, time, and distance.
We use "there" when we're talking about something that exists. In addition, we use it for quantity and amount, as well as placement and positions.
What does "FANBOYS" stand for in grammar?
Describe in English what apartheid is/was.
(Afrikaans: “apartness”) A policy that governed relations between South Africa’s white minority and nonwhite majority for much of the latter half of the 20th century, sanctioning racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against nonwhites.
Why does South Africa celebrate its ownNational Women’s Day on the 9th of August every year?
It honors a demonstration by about 20,000 South African women on August 9, 1956. The women were protesting a law made by the white-run apartheid government.
Who was Miep Gies?
The daughter of the family that sheltered Anne Frank.