KS3 · French · Year 8
Descriptions with multiple adjectives
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Your learning goal
I can use multiple adjectives in a sentence to describe photos.
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Descriptions with multiple 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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Download original PowerPoint ↓What you’ll learn
I can use multiple adjectives in a sentence to describe photos.
Key learning points
- [a] sounds like ‘animal’ and [e] sounds like ‘je’.
- They are both oral vowels, unlike the nasal vowels [em/am] and [en/an].
- Two or more adjectives after the noun are separated by ‘et’. Adjectives before the noun don't need ‘et’.
- In some French sentences, adjectives sandwich the noun e.g. une belle maison blanche.
Words to know
- [a]
- pronounced as in ‘animal’
- [e]
- pronounced as in ‘je’
- adjective
- word that gives information about a noun
Common mistakes
Adjectives follow the same order and punctuation as in English.
If there is more than one adjective in a sentence, adjectives after the noun are separated by ‘et’. BRAGS adjectives go before the noun and do not need ‘et’. In some sentences, there are adjectives surrounding the noun.
For parents, carers and teachers
- You may want to find your own photos for students to describe, relating to francophone culture or the particular interests of your students in order to help them to apply the new language to their lives.