Language 1
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Democracy & Citizenship 1
Democracy & Citizenship 2
Life Skills & Public Health
100
Is "New York City" a common or a proper noun?
Proper.
100
What is a noun? Describe in English.
A noun is a word that represents a person, place, or thing.
100
What is "medborgerskap" in English?
Citizenship.
100
Who wrote the book "Twelve Years a Slave"?
Solomon Northup
100
What is "Indigenous People" in Norwegian?
Urfolk.
200
Make this active sentence into a passive one, "Somebody lost the letter."
The letter was lost (by somebody).
200
Choose the correct form of the verb that agrees with the subject, "Annie and her brothers is/are at school."
Are - Annie and her brothers (plural).
200
What is a dilemma?
A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially ones that are equally undesirable.
200
Explain what a consequence is.
A result or effect, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant.
200
Name at least three different indigenous peoples.
Sami, Maori, Native Americans, Aboriginals, Inuits +++
300
Make this passive sentence into an active one, "The plants have been watered (by somebody)."
Somebody has watered the plants.
300
Choose the correct form of the verb that agrees with the subject, "Either my mother or my father is/are coming to the meeting."
Is - because it's one or the other (singular).
300
Give a reason for why one should learn about slavery.
See slavery's relevance to the present, help us understand racism, keep history from repeating itself, etc.
300
In 1939, an African American jazz singer was persuaded to perform the song “Strange Fruit”. What was her name?
Billie Holiday.
300
What do the Aboriginals call "Australia Day"?
Mourning Day.
400
What is the difference between an abstract noun and a concrete noun?
Abstract nouns - cannot be seen our touched (e.g. joy, sorrow, life, marriage).
Concrete noun - can be seen or touched (tree, person, house, flag).
400
Conjugate "to begin" - To begin ... ...
To begin - began - begun
400
When was the earliest record of slaves in America?
1619.
400
When was the first black president in the history of the USA elected, and what was his name?
2008, Barack Obama.
400
Indigenous groups make up about (?)% of the world’s population.
5 %
500
Name these punctuation marks in English:
Comma, full stop/ period, exclamation mark, and question mark.
500
What is the difference between an adjective and an adverb?
Main rule; adjectives modify nouns and adverbs modify verbs.
500
Which European nation was the first to enslave Africans (in the middle of the 1400s)?
Portugal.
500
Before 1400, the Slavs were the people most often enslaved by their neighbors, why?
Because they had not organized into nation-states and could not defend themselves adequately.
500
What year did Prime Minister Kevin Rudd give an apology to the stolen generations?
2008.
600
What are collocations?
600
Explain in english what an irregular verb is.
Irregular verbs are verbs that do not follow the normal patterns for tense and past participle. While most English regular verbs use the ending “-ed” for the past tense and participle forms, irregular verbs each have their own unique tense forms and past participles.
600
What does it mean if a society is ethnocentric?
They believe that their culture is better than others.
600
When Billie Holiday sang, "Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck" - she was referring to a specific set of laws. What were these laws called?
Jim Crow Laws
600
Five Native American tribes were moved from areas in the southeast to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River in the 1830s. What was this forced migration called?
The Trail of Tears.