KS3 · French · Year 8
Fire at the zoo! Plural adjectives
In the news: plural adjectives
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Your learning goal
I can confidently use masculine plural nouns and plural adjectives to describe a day in the life of a journalist.
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Fire at the zoo! 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.
Original teaching resources
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Download original PowerPoint ↓What you’ll learn
I can confidently use masculine plural nouns and plural adjectives to describe a day in the life of a journalist.
Key learning points
- To make masculine nouns ending -eu/eau plural, add -x and change nouns ending -al/ail to -aux.
- To make most adjectives plural, add -s, which makes no difference to pronunciation, as 's' is a Silent Final Consonant.
- Masculine plural adjectives ending -eux don’t change, adjectives ending -al change to aux in the masculine form.
- The feminine versions of -euse adjectives are regular, just add -s, which is silent.
- Use grammatical context clues, familiar vocabulary and cognates to read longer French texts, including articles.
Words to know
- adjective
- word that gives information about a noun
- masculine form
- form of an adjective that describes a boy, man or masculine noun
Common mistakes
Add -s to all adjectives in the plural form.
Most adjectives do need an 's' in the plural form, but there are exceptions. Masculine adjectives ending -eux don't change at all and those ending -al change to -aux in the plural form. The feminine plural versions of these adjectives are regular.
For parents, carers and teachers
- For students to work at their own pace and not have to keep up with the animations, whilst still benefitting from the information-gap style task in C3, students could have a printout of the answer prompts.