KS2 · French · Year 3
What is it? Naming belongings with 'un' and 'une'
What I and others have: singular 'avoir' and nouns
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Your learning goal
I can use 'un' and 'une' to name belongings in French.
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What is it? Naming belongings with 'un' and 'une': 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 'un' and 'une' to name belongings in French.
Key learning points
- The sound-symbol correspondence [un] is a nasal vowel sound; ‘un’ means 'a/an' and number one in French.
- All nouns have grammatical gender, masculine or feminine.
- The masculine word for 'a/an' is 'un', the feminine word is 'une'; these determiners are called indefinite articles.
Words to know
- [un]
- sound-symbol correspondence
- indefinite articles
- the two words 'un' and 'une' meaning 'a/an'
- grammatical gender
- a way to categorise nouns as masculine or feminine
Common mistakes
Grammatical gender is the same as biological gender. If a word is feminine we think of it as female, if it is masculine we think of it as male.
Grammatical gender is not the same as biological gender. All French nouns are either masculine or feminine, whether they name people, places or things.
For parents, carers and teachers
- It is a good idea to emphasise the difference in pronunciation between 'un' and 'une' by (over)exaggerating facial movements, as these two indefinite articles come up constantly.