KS4 · French · Year 10
Comment se mettre au travail ? Word patterns
Studying and my future: Ma carrière
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
IllumED Slides
IllumED · 1/8
Your learning goal
I can use my knowledge of word families to expand my range of language.
1 of 8
Comment se mettre au travail ? Word patterns: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
Original teaching resources
The original illustrated PowerPoint is available as well as the IllumED text slides. It retains the publisher’s design and credits.
Download original PowerPoint ↓What you’ll learn
I can use my knowledge of word families to expand my range of language.
Key learning points
- Ordinal numbers are created by (removing -e and) adding -ième to a number: deuxième, onzième.
- in- or im- can be added to adjectives, adverbs or nouns to give the opposite meaning. English equivalent is un- or in-.
- The letter [x] can be heard before a vowel. This is called liaison and is common in ordinal numbers.
- [in] sounds like 'train' and [im] sounds like 'faim': incorrect, impossible.
Words to know
- cardinal number
- number form that shows how many of something there are
- ordinal number
- number form that shows position or order of something in a list e.g. first, second, third
Common mistakes
The letter x in the words 'sixième' and 'dixième' is pronounced the same as in English.
The letter x is pronounced as z due to liaison in these words and should be carefully practised to develop an authentic pronunciation.
For parents, carers and teachers
- A brief explanation of what cardinal and ordinal numbers are is in the slide deck but you may wish to go into this in more detail if there is a need to. Task B4 has Options 1 and 2. Option 2 is aimed at students who do not need exposure to more challenging vocabulary and structures.