20 questions corrigées : écriture journalistique, éthique, grammaire et vocabulaire anglais, faux amis et traduction des institutions. Entraînement KounKour, pas un sujet officiel.
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In news writing, the 'inverted pyramid' means:
The most important information comes first
The story ends with the main point
Paragraphs get longer and longer
Quotes are placed only at the top
The opening sentence or paragraph of a news story is called the:
Byline
Lead (or lede)
Caption
Dateline
In English news headlines, a past event is usually written in the:
Past perfect
Present simple
Future continuous
Conditional
A source who speaks 'off the record' means that:
The information can be published with the source's name
The information must not be published or attributed
The interview is being recorded
The source is lying
An 'embargo' on a press release means:
The release is false
It must not be published before a set date and time
It is reserved for one newspaper
It is confidential forever
Choose the correct sentence:
The minister have announced new measures.
The minister has announced new measures.
The minister announce new measures yesterday.
The minister has announce new measures.
Choose the correct passive form of 'The government launched the programme in 2020':
The programme was launched by the government in 2020.
The programme is launch by the government in 2020.
The programme has been launching in 2020.
The programme launched by the government in 2020.
Reported speech: He said, 'I will attend the summit.' becomes:
He said he will attended the summit.
He said he would attend the summit.
He said I would attend the summit.
He says he attend the summit.
The French word 'actuellement' is correctly translated as:
Actually
Currently
Eventually
Accurately
The English word 'eventually' means:
Éventuellement
Finalement, à la longue
Immédiatement
Peut-être
The usual English translation of 'Chef du gouvernement' (Morocco) is:
Head of Government
King's Chief
Prime Mayor
Chief Minister of State
The two chambers of the Moroccan Parliament are, in English:
The Senate and the Assembly
The House of Representatives and the House of Councillors
The Lords and the Commons
The Congress and the Council
Maghreb Arabe Presse (MAP), Morocco's national news agency, was founded in:
1912
1959
1999
2011
A 'byline' is:
The name of the journalist printed with the article
The last line of an article
A correction notice
The headline
'Fact-checking' consists of:
Rewriting a story in shorter form
Verifying the accuracy of facts, figures and quotes before or after publication
Translating a press release
Choosing photos
Which word is spelled correctly?
Goverment
Government
Governement
Govermment
The plural of 'crisis' is:
Crisises
Crises
Crisis's
Crisi
Choose the correct preposition: 'The agreement will come ___ force next month.'
in
into
on
at
'Breaking news' refers to:
News about broken objects
Important news that is happening now and is reported immediately
Old news reprinted
Sports results only
In a news story, a direct quotation must:
Be reworded freely by the journalist
Reproduce the speaker's exact words and be attributed