Basic 7 French Exercises: Compter, Numbers 0 to 100 and Simple Sums (20 Objective Questions and 5 Essay Questions)

Level: JHS, Basic 7 | Subject: French | Strand: Ma vie quotidienne | Topic: Compter

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Part A has 20 tick-box questions. Part B has 5 essay questions with a marking guide at the bottom.

Essay Questions

Write in French words: 14, 21, 37, 58, 66, 72. (6 marks)
Write in French words: 80, 81, 90, 91, 95, 100. (6 marks)
Solve and write the full answer in French words, for example: Dix plus cinq font quinze. (a) 12 + 8 (b) 30 – 7 (c) 5 x 6 (d) 60 / 3 (e) 45 + 15 (5 marks)
You buy three items in a shop in Kumasi. The prices are 15, 20 and 30 cedis. Write a short dialogue of four lines in French in which you ask the total price and the seller answers. (5 marks)
Explain how French people say 70 and 90, and why this is different from English. (3 marks)

quatorze, vingt et un, trente-sept, cinquante-huit, soixante-six, soixante-douze (1 mark each). Note the et in vingt et un.
quatre-vingts, quatre-vingt-un, quatre-vingt-dix, quatre-vingt-onze, quatre-vingt-quinze, cent (1 mark each). Quatre-vingts has an s only when nothing follows it.
(a) Douze plus huit font vingt. (b) Trente moins sept font vingt-trois. (c) Cinq fois six font trente. (d) Soixante divisé par trois font vingt. (e) Quarante-cinq plus quinze font soixante. (1 mark each, half for the correct number and half for the correct sentence).
Four correct lines. Expect: Ça coûte combien ? Le sac coûte quinze cedis, le cahier vingt et le stylo trente. Alors, le total est soixante-cinq cedis. (1 mark each, total 65) plus one mark for politeness.
70 is soixante-dix (sixty and ten) and 90 is quatre-vingt-dix (four twenties and ten) (2 marks). French in France follows the counting system based on twenty. The same words are used in Ghana (1 mark). Accept septante and nonante for Belgium and Switzerland as a bonus.

Education Always (education.inspiringalways.com). Original practice questions, not official WAEC or BECE questions.