Capital cities
American history dates
English tenses
Common translation mistakes
Inventions
100

Madrid

What is the capital city of Spain?

100

1492

When did Christopher Columbus discover America?

100

 I am coming home

To come  home- Present –ING, first person singular / I am coming home

100

Une entreprise

How do you translate "a firm"?

100

Pasteur

Who invented the anti-rabies vaccine?

200

Rabat

What is the capital city of Morocco? 

200

July 4th

When is the American national holiday?

200

he loved cooking

To love cooking – Simple past, third person singular / he loved cooking

200

devenir

How do you translate "to become"?

200

Alfred Nobel

Who invented dynamite?

300

Ottawa

What is the capital city of Canada?

300

1776

When was the year of America's independence?

300

they didn’t use to go out very often

To go out very often  -  used to – negative form – third person plural / they didn’t use to go out very often

300

actuellement

How do you translate "currently"?

300

Benjamin Franklin

Who invented the lightning rod? (paratonerre)

400

Vilnius

What is the capital city of Lithuania? 

400

December 1942

When was Pearl Harbor?

400

we have been listening to the radio

To listen to the radio – present perfect progressive – first person plural / we have been listening to the radio

400

en fin de compte

How do you translate "eventually"?

400

Fleming

Who invented Penicillin?

500

Yamoussoukro

What is the capital city of Ivory Coast?

500

1861-1865

When was the American Civil War?

500

You would have understood

To understand – past conditional – second person singular – You would have understood

500

raisins secs

How do you translate "raisins"?

500

Nicéphore Niépce

Who invented Photography?

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