KS2 · French · Year 3
Poem: Matthieu le merveilleux
Me and others: singular 'être' and regular adjectives
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can write short sentences using 'être' and adjectives ending in -eux, -euse to say how I, and others, are feeling on different days.
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Poem: Matthieu le merveilleux: 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 write short sentences using 'être' and adjectives ending in -eux, -euse to say how I, and others, are feeling on different days.
Key learning points
- Practising the sound-symbol correspondence [eu] in a poem can anchor the knowledge.
- Adjectives ending in -eux change to -euse in the feminine form.
- ‘Je suis’, ‘tu es’ and ‘elle, il est’ are all parts of the verb ‘être’ (to be, being).
Words to know
- eu
- pronounced as in 'jeu'
- 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
- être
- French verb meaning 'to be, being'
Common mistakes
Adding an -e to an adjective is the sole way to change an adjective from the masculine to the feminine form.
There are different ways to change a masculine adjective to a feminine adjective; adding an -e to the end being the most common. When an adjective ends in -eux in the masculine form, however, it changes to -euse in the feminine form.
For parents, carers and teachers
- You may wish to ask pupils to learn the French poem off by heart, in their own time, and to perform it to the class. This will allow for greater consolidation of the SSC [eu] and to practise their oracy skills.