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European Day of Languages

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How many official languages are there in the European Union?

a)

27 – this is also the number of countries in the EU

b)

28 – this is also the number of countries in the EU

c)

12 – this is also the number of stars on the EU flag

d)

24 – because some countries share the same language

2.

TAK in Danish means:

a)

NO

b)

THANK YOU

c)

PLEASE 

d)

YES

3.

In which of Polish dialects APFELZYNA means "orange"?

a)

SILESIAN

b)

LOWER SILESIAN

c)

KASHUBIAN

d)

MAZOVIAN

4.

SAUNA is a word of ... origin

a)

Finnish

b)

Greek

c)

Swedish

d)

English

5.

Which language is a mother tongue (język ojczysty) for the greatest number of Europeans?

a)

English

b)

German

c)

French

d)

Spanish

6.

POMODORO means TOMATO in:

a)

Italian

b)

Spanish

c)

Greek

d)

Portuguese

7.

POSTEL’ in Slovak means:

a)

DUVET

b)

PILLOW

c)

BED

d)

BEDSHEETS

8.

GLAS in Irish means:

a)

GLASS

b)

GLASSES

c)

GRASS

d)

GREEN

9.

ROUGE is the French name of colour:

a)

pink

b)

red

c)

purple

d)

orange

10.

In Croatian JAGODA means…

a)

BLUEBERRY

b)

RASPBERRY

c)

STRAWBERRY

d)

APRICOT

11.

Ludwik Zamenhof, who was Polish, created the most popular international auxiliary language (sztuczny językj) called:

a)

Latin

b)

Esperanto

c)

Zamenhoffs

d)

Puerto Riko

12.

What is the mother tongue of MAYA THE BEE?

a)

Polish

b)

English

c)

German

d)

French

13.

THE ANTHEM of this country has no words:

a)

England

b)

Ukraine

c)

Spain

d)

Estonia

14.

The oldest language in Europe is:

a)

Basque

b)

Hindi

c)

English

d)

German

15.

How many letters are there in the Polish alphabet?

a)

23

b)

32

c)

25

d)

40

16.

Alphabet created for blind people is:

a)

BRAILLE ALPHABET

b)

MORSE ALPHABET

c)

CYRILLIC ALPHABET

d)

SIGN LANGUAGE

17.

Czech people call this month Kvĕten:

a)

March

b)

April

c)

May

d)

June

18.

FRISIAN is on of the official languages in…

a)

Italy

b)

Spain

c)

Netherlands

d)

Vatican

19.

Most languages in Europe are based on:

a)

European language

b)

Latin

c)

Celtic

d)

Slavic