KS2 · French · Year 4
At the zoo: writing from a word list for reference
People, places, things: adjective agreement, subject pronouns 'it'
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Your learning goal
I can use reference materials to determine the gender of nouns when writing descriptions in French.
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I can use reference materials to determine the gender of nouns when writing descriptions in French.
Key learning points
- The SSCs [ien], [(a)in] and [on] make nasal sounds. Air passes through both the nose and the mouth.
- In French all nouns are either masculine or feminine. This is grammatical gender. It is not the same as male or female.
- We can use reference materials such a dictionaries to help us determine the type of a word and the gender of a noun.
- All dictionaries have symbols to give information about word type and noun gender. For example 'nm' is a masculine noun.
- When saying your favourite animal in French, use the article the (le, la, l'): mon animal préféré est le chien.
Words to know
- nasal sound
- a sound in which the air passes through both one's nose and mouth
- [ien]
- pronounced as in 'chien'
- [(a)in]
- pronounced as in 'train'
- [on]
- pronounced as in 'non'
Common mistakes
When saying your favourite animal in French, use the article 'an/an' as in English: my favourite animal is a dog.
When saying your favourite animal in French, we in fact use the article 'the': mon animal préféré est le chien.
For parents, carers and teachers
- In Task B2, instead of drawing the image of the horse, pupils could draw their own picture and write a corresponding description, following the same formula as: [article] [noun] [adjective], [article] [noun] [adjective], et au centre [article] [noun] [adjective].