Sept Couleurs Magiques (Mymi Doinet)
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use prior knowledge and cognates to read a French poem and apply adjectival agreement to colours.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- [qu] sounds like 'question'.
- Colours can be used as adjectives and must agree with what they are describing.
- Use prior knowledge and cognates when reading longer French texts.
Keywords
[qu] - pronounced as in question
Cognate - words with the same meaning and same or similar spelling in English and French
Adjective - word that gives information about a noun
Common misconception
Colours are always nouns.
Colours can be used as nouns or adjectives. When used as adjectives, they must agree with the noun they are describing e.g. une chose bleue.
Teacher tip
There are several opportunities for reading aloud using the entire poem or just sections of it.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which sound does 'amusant' not contain?
Q2.Match the French and English articles.
a (masculine)
a (feminine)
the (masculine)
the (feminine)
the (plural)
the (before a vowel/h)
Q3.Tick the adjectives that could be describing feminine nouns.
Q4.In French, adjectives usually come the noun they are describing.
Q5.Tick the nouns that apply to women.
Q6.Add the missing articles. 'I have a dog and she has the computers.' J'ai __________ chien et elle a __________ ordinateurs.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the French colours with the English.
red
orange
yellow
green
blue
purple
Q2.'Musique', 'quatre' and 'expliquer' all contain the SSC.
Q3.The sentence 'la vague est bleu.' is grammatically correct. True or false?
Q4.'Papillon' is the French for ...
Q5.Put these nouns in the order 'friend, singer, man, woman, teacher'.
Q6.In the phrase 'vert comme un sorbet', 'comme' means ...
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