تدريب · Journalistes anglophones et traducteurs (entraînement KounKour) · 20 سؤال
20 questions corrigées : écriture journalistique, éthique, grammaire et vocabulaire anglais, faux amis et traduction des institutions. Entraînement KounKour, pas un sujet officiel.
QCM d'entraînement rédigé par KounKour pour les concours « Journalistes anglophones et traducteurs » : ce n'est pas un sujet réel d'un concours. Réponses et références vérifiées par KounKour.
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- The information must not be published or attributed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- It must not be published before a set date and time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:
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.'
'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
- Never mention the speaker
- Be translated without checking