KS4 · French · Year 10
La valeur de la famille : feminine adjective agreement
My personal world: Ma famille
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Your learning goal
I can describe family behaviours and events using a range of adjectives, ensuring adjective agreement with nouns.
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La valeur de la famille : feminine adjective agreement: 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 describe family behaviours and events using a range of adjectives, ensuring adjective agreement with nouns.
Key learning points
- To make an adjective feminine we can: add -e, -x to -se, -el to -elle, -en to -enne, -f to -ve, -er to ère.
- If an adjective ends in mute -e, there is no change to form the feminine e.g. 'triste'.
- To form plural adjectives we add an -s, unless the adjective ends in -x or -s. -al and -eau change to -aux and -eaux.
- [è] sounds like 'tête', important when pronouncing feminine agreements of adjectives ending in -er: 'entier', 'entière'.
Words to know
- singular verb form
- when you talk about something one person is doing: I, you, her or she
- adjective
- a word that gives information about a noun
- noun
- a word for a person, place or thing
Common mistakes
Adjectives ending in -al take -s to create the masculine plural form.
Adjectives ending in -al need a spelling change to create the masculine plural form. Remove the -l and add -ux for example 'familial' - 'familiaux' in the masculine plural form.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Task B3 has two versions: option 1 and option 2. Option 1 is a more challenging version of the translation. Option 2 is aimed at students who may find option 1 too challenging.