Good and bad experiences: feminine adjective agreement
Learning outcomes
I know how to make adjectives feminine, in order to accurately describe and compare masculine and feminine nouns.
I know that [om] and [on] can be nasal or oral sounds depending on whether they come before a consonant or a vowel.
- Year 8
Good and bad experiences: feminine adjective agreement
Learning outcomes
I know how to make adjectives feminine, in order to accurately describe and compare masculine and feminine nouns.
I know that [om] and [on] can be nasal or oral sounds depending on whether they come before a consonant or a vowel.
Lesson details
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- The SSCs [om] and [on] are nasal sounds. Before a consonant they have the same nasal sound, like in ‘bombe’ and 'monde'.
- Before a vowel the 'm' and 'n' are pronounced, like in 'omelette' and 'monotone'. They are different oral sounds.
- In French, the ending of an adjective matches the noun it describes. This is called adjective agreement.
- There are various ways to make an adjective feminine, including adding an -e and changing -eur to -euse.
- Some short masculine adjectives ending in -n, -l or -s double the last letter before adding -e, e.g. gentil, gentille.
Keywords
[om] - sound-symbol correspondence pronounced as in 'nom', a nasal sound
[on] - sound-symbol correspondence pronounced as in 'non', a nasal sound
Adjective agreement - when the ending of an adjective matches the noun it describes in gender and number
Common misconception
The SSCs [om] and [on] always sound the same.
When [om] or [on] appear at the end of a word or before a consonant, they have a nasal sound and are pronounced the same. However, before a vowel their sounds are oral, the 'm' and 'n' are pronounced more clearly, making these SSCs sound different.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the adjectives to their meanings.
Q2.What is the French word for secondary school?
Q3.Match the modal verbs to their meanings.
Q4.Which of the following words are adverbs?
Q5.Put the words in the correct order to make the following sentence. 'I must only go out with Léa in the evenings'.
Q6.Put the words in the correct order to make the following sentence. 'We can visit beautiful churches in Paris'.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Complete the sentence. When [om] or [on] appear at the end of a word or before a consonant, they have a nasal sound and are pronounced the ...
Q2.Match the opposites.
