KS3 · French · Year 7
Un poème familial: read and read aloud
Places to go: singular 'aller'
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Your learning goal
I can use prior knowledge and cognates to understand a French poem and apply adjectival agreement patterns.
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Un poème familial: read and read aloud: 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 use prior knowledge and cognates to understand a French poem and apply adjectival agreement patterns.
Key learning points
- [é/er/ez] is pronounced as in 'écrire'.
- Some adjectives follow different patterns. 'Naturel' is 'naturelle' in the feminine form and 'heureux' is 'heureuse'.
- There are many cognates in French which can be used to infer meaning of surrounding words and understand context.
- Cognates may look very similar to English but sound quite different so attention must be paid to pronunciation.
Words to know
- [é/er/ez]
- pronounced as in 'écrire'
- cognate
- words with the same meaning and same or similar spelling in English and French
Common mistakes
Add -e to all adjectives to make them feminine.
Some adjectives follow different patterns. 'Heureux' changes to 'heureuse' and 'naturel' changes to 'naturelle'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Teachers may want to encourage pupils to rehearse, learn, record and/or perform themselves saying the poem in the last lesson cycle, if time permits.