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Year 8

Descriptions with multiple adjectives

Learning outcomes

I can use multiple adjectives in a sentence to describe photos.

I can distinguish and pronounce the oral vowel sounds [a] and [e].

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Year 8

Descriptions with multiple adjectives

Learning outcomes

I can use multiple adjectives in a sentence to describe photos.

I can distinguish and pronounce the oral vowel sounds [a] and [e].

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Key learning points

  1. [a] sounds like ‘animal’ and [e] sounds like ‘je’.
  2. They are both oral vowels, unlike the nasal vowels [em/am] and [en/an].
  3. Two or more adjectives after the noun are separated by ‘et’. Adjectives before the noun don't need ‘et’.
  4. In some French sentences, adjectives sandwich the noun e.g. une belle maison blanche.

Keywords

  • [a] - pronounced as in ‘animal’

  • [e] - pronounced as in ‘je’

  • Adjective - word that gives information about a noun

Common misconception

Adjectives follow the same order and punctuation as in English.

If there is more than one adjective in a sentence, adjectives after the noun are separated by ‘et’. BRAGS adjectives go before the noun and do not need ‘et’. In some sentences, there are adjectives surrounding the noun.


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6 Questions

Q1.
Match the adjectives.
Correct Answer:cher,expensive

expensive

Correct Answer:petit,small

small

Correct Answer:intelligent,intelligent, clever

intelligent, clever

Correct Answer:amusant,funny

funny

Correct Answer:grand,big

big

Correct Answer:bleu,blue

blue

Q2.
What is the feminine plural form of the adjective 'happy'?
Correct answer: heureuses
heureux
heureuse
Q3.
How do you make masculine forms of nouns ending -eu/eau plural?
Correct Answer: Add 'x'., x, add an x, - eau + x
Q4.
What does BRAGS stand for when remembering which adjectives go before the noun? Your answer must be in the correct order.
Correct Answer: Beauty Rank Age Goodness Size
Q5.
Which of these adjectives come before the noun in French?
orange
Correct answer: grand
Correct answer: vieux
amusant
cher
Q6.
Put the words in order to make the sentence, 'I have a big, clever dog'.
1 - J'
2 - ai
3 - un
4 - grand
5 - chien
6 - intelligent

5 Questions

Q1.
What do you call a word that gives information about a noun?
Correct Answer: Adjective, an adjective
Q2.
Which word means old?
jeune
Correct answer: vieux
cher
heureux
travailleur
Q3.
Put the words in the correct order to make the sentence, I live in a beautiful, little house.
1 - J'
2 - habite
3 - dans
4 - une
5 - belle
6 - petite
7 - maison
Q4.
Put the words in the correct order to make this sentence. It's an intelligent, funny person.
1 - C'
2 - est
3 - une
4 - personne
5 - intelligente
6 - et
7 - drole
Q5.
Match the opposites.
Correct Answer:bon,mauvais

mauvais

Correct Answer:drôle,ennuyeux

ennuyeux

Correct Answer:jeune,vieux

vieux

Correct Answer:beau,laid

laid

Correct Answer:heureux,triste

triste

Correct Answer:grand,petit

petit

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