What is it? Naming belongings with 'un' and 'une'
Learning outcomes
I can use 'un' and 'une' to name belongings in French.
I can recognise and pronounce [un].
- Year 3
What is it? Naming belongings with 'un' and 'une'
Learning outcomes
I can use 'un' and 'une' to name belongings in French.
I can recognise and pronounce [un].
Lesson details
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
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.
Keywords
[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 misconception
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.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these words are nouns?
Q2.True or false? The sounds [an] and [en] in French are the same.
Q3.Match each vowel sound to the correct word and practise its pronunciation.
Q4.Match each of these pronouns to the correct version of the verb 'être': 'to be, being'.
Q5.Which of the following nouns have a silent-final consonant?
Q6.In French, adjectives have to with the gender of the person they are describing. For example, 'Il est grand, elle est grande'.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.How many ways are there to say 'a/an' in French?
Q2.What does 'un' mean in English?
Q3.All French nouns are either masculine or .
Q4.True or false? 'Un' and 'une' make the same sounds in French.
Q5.Match each of these English words to the correct French translations.
