KS2 · French · Year 4
Mother's day in 'la Francophonie': 'mon', 'ma' and 'ton', 'ta'
People, places, things: adjective agreement, subject pronouns 'it'
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Your learning goal
I can use possessive adjectives in French to describe preparations for 'la fête des mères'.
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Mother's day in 'la Francophonie': 'mon', 'ma' and 'ton', 'ta': 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 possessive adjectives in French to describe preparations for 'la fête des mères'.
Key learning points
- The letter c is soft before the letters e and i. It is hard before the letters a, o and u.
- The letter ç (c cedilla) makes a soft sound before a, o and u.
- The pronouns il and elle can be translated as it in French, as every French noun has a gender.
- Possessive adjectives have masculine forms 'mon' and 'ton' and feminine forms 'ma' and 'ta'.
Words to know
- [c/ç]
- pronounced as in 'ici'
- il
- pronoun meaning 'he' or 'it'
- elle
- pronoun meaning 'she' or 'it'
- mon, ma
- masculine and feminine forms of the possessive adjective 'my'
- ton, ta
- masculine and feminine forms of the possessive adjective 'your'
Common mistakes
There is one form of the possessive adjective 'my' in French, as in English.
There are two forms of the possessive adjective 'my' in French: 'mon' (masculine) and 'ma' (feminine).