KS2 · French · Year 3
What you are like: singular regular adjective agreement
Me and others: singular 'être' and regular adjectives
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Your learning goal
I can use 'être' with adjectives to make simple statements about myself and questions about others.
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What you are like: singular regular adjective agreement: 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 'être' with adjectives to make simple statements about myself and questions about others.
Key learning points
- The sound-symbol correspondence [an/en] can be contrasted for practice with [a], [e] and [ain].
- Adjectives often add -e to describe a female person; adjectives already ending in -e do not change.
- 'Je suis', 'tu es' and 'elle, il est' are all parts of the verb 'être' to be, being.
Words to know
- [an/en]
- pronounced as in 'enfant'
- être
- verb meaning 'to be', being
- tu es
- meaning 'you are' for one person
- adjective agreement
- a change in adjective ending, for example, adding an -e to describe a woman or a girl
Common mistakes
French adjectives never change form.
French adjectives do change; this is called adjective agreement. One change is to match the gender of the person described.
For parents, carers and teachers
- On the interactive speaking activity, you could hide Pierre behind other squares and play the game as a whole class, asking pupils to share sentences one at a time.