Jobs: feminine adjectives
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use adjectives, person nouns and the verbs avoir and être to talk about jobs.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- When a word ending in a normally silent consonant is followed by a mute 'h', the consonant is heard due to liaison.
- Understanding and responding to a text is a good way to deepen vocabulary knowledge of previously taught words.
- To make a regular adjective feminine, add an -e. If the masculine form already ends in –e, it does not change.
- Change adjectives ending -x to -se in the feminine form.
- Some adjectives are irregular, you need to learn both forms e.g 'beau' and 'belle'.
Keywords
[h] liaison - pronouncing a usually silent final consonant because a word starting with a silent 'h' follows
Adjective agreement - when the ending of an adjective matches the noun it describes in gender and number
Common misconception
Add an -e to all adjectives to make them agree with feminine nouns.
The majority of adjectives need an -e adding in the feminine form but there are other patterns and exceptions to the rules. A common pattern is that adjectives ending -x change to -se in the feminine form.
Teacher tip
The productive task C4 is designed to be a writing task, as students have had more speaking than writing practice over the unit but this could be adapted to be a speaking task. Students could read their descriptions to each other and even try to guess who it is from the description.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Tick any phrases containing a liaison.
Q2.How do you say 'I must' in French?
Q3.Match the French and English.
Q4.What infinitive do the verbs 'je suis', 'nous sommes' and 'elles sont' come from?
Q5.How do you say 'in/inside' in French?
Q6.Order the French for the sentence 'They are going to Algiers in Algeria by plane'.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which is the French word for 'job'?
Q2.Match up the high frequency vocabulary.
Q3.Match the verbs in French and English.
Q4.What's the word that describes pronouncing a usually silent final consonant if the next word starts with a vowel or silent [h]?
Q5.Put the sentence 'He is sad but she is happy' in order in French.
Q6.What letter do you add in French to make a regular adjective feminine?
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