KS3 · French · Year 7
Describe people: 'être' 1st and 2nd persons plural and regular plural adjectives
Family life: numbers, plural nouns, plural 'avoir' & 'être'
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Your learning goal
I can use 'nous sommes' and 'vous êtes' with regular plural adjectives to describe what we and you (pl) are like.
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Describe people: 'être' 1st and 2nd persons plural and regular plural adjectives: 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.
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I can use 'nous sommes' and 'vous êtes' with regular plural adjectives to describe what we and you (pl) are like.
Key learning points
- The SSC [e] is pronounced as in the word 'je'.
- 'Nous sommes' and 'vous êtes' are the 1st and 2nd persons plural of the verb 'être', 'to be, being'.
- Adjectives often add -e in the feminine form, this is regular adjective gender agreement.
- Adjectives often add -s as the regular marker in the plural form.
Words to know
- [e]
- pronounced as in 'je'
- être
- irregular French verb meaning 'to be, being'
- nous sommes
- from the verb 'être' meaning 'we are'
- vous êtes
- from the verb 'être' meaning 'you are (plural)'
- adjective agreement
- when the ending of an adjective matches the noun it describes in gender and number
Common mistakes
Adjectives do not change spelling based on gender or number, as in English.
Adjectives do change spelling based on gender or number, for example: 'un chien amusant', 'deux tortues amusantes'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- There are 11 new vocabulary words in this lesson, you could ask pupils to practise these in their own time using the 'look, cover, say, write, check' technique, and quiz them on these next lesson.