KS2 · French · Year 4
Describe what you have: speaking in sentences
People, places, things: adjective agreement, subject pronouns 'it'
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Your learning goal
I can say sentences in French to describe what I or others have.
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Describe what you have: speaking in sentences: 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
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I can say sentences in French to describe what I or others have.
Key learning points
- Adjectives must agree with the noun they describe in French. They can be either masculine or feminine.
- Regular feminine adjectives add an -e: 'une voiture lente'. This is a SFe (silent final e).
- In English, adjectives come before the noun: 'a grey bike'.
- In French, most adjectives go after the noun: 'un vélo gris'. These are called postnominal adjectives.
- The adverb 'très' means very. It goes between the noun and the adjective in French: 'un vélo très gris'.
Words to know
- SFe
- silent final e at the end of a word
- postnominal adjective
- adjective which comes after the noun in French, e.g. 'un vélo gris'
- avoir
- French infinitive verb meaning 'to have, having'
- -er verb
- a regular verb which has an infinitive form ending in -er
Common mistakes
The adjective 'cher' simply adds an -e in the feminine form.
The adjective 'cher' does add an -e in the feminine form, but there is an additional change as the first e changes to è in the feminine form: 'chère'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- If you can, hand out real dice to students to use during the speaking activity, in addition to the dice on the screen.