Mbappé: Africa Top Success Article

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7 questions
Read the complete article first before trying to answer the questions. Do not get hung up on individual words you don’t know--there will be many and that is ok. Try to understand the main idea of the text. Use the visual clues and cognates to help you figure out the meaning.
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Quand est-ce cet article était publié?

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Où est-ce que cet article était publié?

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A cognate is a word that looks and/or sounds like a word in another language and has the same meaning. There are many English/French cognates. Cognates can help you understand new words in French. Please underline the French cognate that you think means each of the words below:

1. generous
2. to help/to aid
3. motivations
4. prodigy
5. considered
6. the planet
7. American magazine
8. prefering

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A cognate is a word that looks and/or sounds like a word in another language and has the same meaning. There are many English/French cognates. Cognates can help you understand new words in French. Please underline the French cognate that you think means each of the words below:

1. people
2. pleasure
3. handicaped
4. declared
5. difficult
6. suffer
7. enormously
8. changes

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A cognate is a word that looks and/or sounds like a word in another language and has the same meaning. There are many English/French cognates. Cognates can help you understand new words in French. Please underline the French cognate that you think means each of the words below:

1. donation
2. decided

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Please complete the sentences based on the picture in the article.

Vocabulaire Important
un ballon de foot = a soccer ball
un fauteuil roulant = a wheelchair
une casquette = a baseball hat

Draggable itemCorresponding Item
Dans la photo Mbappé porte
ballons de foot dans la photo.
Les ballons de foot sont
des baskets bleu clair, blanches, et noires.
Le garçon dans le fauteuil roulant porte
orange et bleus.
Il ne fait pas
est noir et blanc.
Il fait
un garçon dans un fauteuil roulant.
Traditionnellement, un ballon de foot
un t-shirt vert et une casquette blanche.
Il y a deux
froid.
Mbappé joue au foot avec
beau.
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Based on the tite, the picture, the cognates you figured out, and the parts of the article you were able to understand, take your best guess what you think the article is about. Please write your answer in complete sentences in English.