KS4 · French · Year 11
Un portrait francophone : possessive adjectives, emphatic pronouns
Lifestyle and wellbeing/Travel and tourism: la culture francophone
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Your learning goal
I can describe a famous piece of art, including a range of possessive adjectives and emphatic pronouns.
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Un portrait francophone : possessive adjectives, emphatic pronouns: 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 a famous piece of art, including a range of possessive adjectives and emphatic pronouns.
Key learning points
- Possessive adjectives agree in number and sometimes gender with the thing that is owned.
- Possessive pronouns can replace a possessive adjective + noun. Start with a definite article e.g. le mien, la mienne.
- Moi, toi, lui, elle, nous, vous, eux, elles are used to mean me, you, him, her, us, you and them as emphatic pronouns.
- An open [o] is pronounced as in 'porte' and a closed [o/ô] is pronounced as in 'photo'.
Words to know
- possessive adjective
- a word that goes before a noun to show ownership or belonging
- possessive pronoun
- replaces a possessive adjective and a noun
- emphatic pronoun
- used to emphasise the subject of a sentence, in comparisons, and after 'c'est'
Common mistakes
There is only one word in French to translate 'mine', 'yours', 'his', 'hers'.
In French, possessive pronouns match the gender and number of the noun they replace in a sentence. They are formed of the definite article and the pronoun, for example: 'les chocolats, ce sont les miens,' meaning 'the chocolates, they are mine'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Task B has two versions. Option 1 is aimed at most students and contains challenge for the most able. Option 2 is a simplified version for students who may require more support to complete the task.