KS2 · French · Year 3
I'm brave! Adjectives ending in -eux, -euse
Me and others: singular 'être' and regular adjectives
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Your learning goal
I can use ‘être’ with a range of adjectives ending -eux to describe people’s traits and states.
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I'm brave! Adjectives ending in -eux, -euse: 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 ‘être’ with a range of adjectives ending -eux to describe people’s traits and states.
Key learning points
- The sound-symbol correspondence [eu] sounds like the ‘eu’ in ‘deux’ (two).
- The silent final consonant -x is not pronounced, as in the adjective ‘heureux’.
- Adjectives ending in -eux change to -euse in the feminine form.
Words to know
- eu
- pronounced as in 'jeudi'
- adjective
- a word that gives information about a noun
- masculine (m) form
- form of an adjective that describes a boy, man or masculine noun
- feminine (f) form
- form of an adjective that describes a girl, woman or feminine noun
Common mistakes
An adjective agrees with the person who is talking, not the person being described. For example, if a boy says to a girl 'you are happy', 'happy' will be in the masculine form.
An adjective agrees with the person who is being described, not the person who is talking. For example, if a boy says to a girl 'you are happy', 'happy' will be in the feminine form.
For parents, carers and teachers
- You may wish to ask pupils to learn the French tongue twister off by heart, in their own time, and to perform it to the class. This will allow for greater consolidation of the SSC [eu].