Exercises: Meat Vocabulary & Gender
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Exercise: French Meat Nouns and Gender
Practice the gender of French meat-related nouns and their articles.
1. Assign the correct definite article (le/la/l’) to each term:
___ aile de poulet (chicken wing) 🍗 →
___ agneau (lamb) 🐑 →
___ bacon 🥓 →
___ blanc de poulet (chicken breast) 🍗 →
___ escargot (snail) 🐌 →
___ foie (liver) 🍖 →
___ dinde (turkey) 🦃 →
___ veau (veal) 🐄 →
2. Match the French term to its English equivalent:
“le jambon” 🍖 →
“la saucisse” 🌭 →
“le jaune d’œuf” 🥚 →
“les viandes maigres” 🥩 →
3. Fill in the blanks with the correct term:
“___ (The beef) est tendre.” 🥩 →
“Je cuisine ___ (duck) à l’orange.” 🦆 →
“___ (The pork) est populaire en Allemagne.” 🐖 →
4. Correct the errors in gender/number:
“Une hamburger” 🍔 →
“La bœuf” 🥩 →
“Des saucisse” 🌭 →
5. Translate into French (include articles/partitives!):
“I eat chicken with rice.”“She prefers egg whites for breakfast.”
Notes:
- Gender hints: Most meat terms are masculine (le porc, le steak), but exceptions include la dinde (turkey) and la viande (meat).
- Partitives: Use du/de la/des for “some” (du poulet, de la dinde).
- Plural alert: Les escargots (snails) and les saucisses (sausages) are plural.