KS3 · French · Year 7
Describe a person or thing: regular gender adjective agreement
Greeting: singular 'être' and regular adjectives
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Your learning goal
I can form feminine adjectives by adding an 'e'.
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I can form feminine adjectives by adding an 'e'.
Key learning points
- When an adjective describes a woman or girl, its spelling and sound can change. This is called the feminine form.
- The most common change is to add an 'e' to the adjective to make the feminine form.
- Adding 'e' to an adjective can change the pronunciation. An 'e' following a consonant means we do hear the consonant.
- Useful adjectives are anglais (English), français (French), grand (tall), petit (short). We add 'e' for feminine forms.
- [a] sounds like 'animal'.
Words to know
- [a]
- as pronounced in animal
- adjective
- a word that gives information about a noun
- masculine form
- the form of an adjective that describes a male or masculine noun
- feminine form
- the form of an adjective that describes a female or feminine noun
Common mistakes
Adjectives in French have only one form that can be used to describe any noun, like English.
In French, adjectives may change their spelling and/or sound when describing a woman, girl or feminine noun. This is called the feminine form.
For parents, carers and teachers
- For the phonics practice task in cycle A, it is good practice to have pupils work in pairs. Partner A says a word. Partner B repeats if they think it has been correctly pronounced. If they think it's wrong, then they can model good practice to support partner A. Then swap roles.