Starter quiz
- True or false: Clémentine and Jean-Michel speak French so they must live in France.
- 'false' ✓
- Match the cities and the countries.
- Lorient⇔France ✓
- Port-au-Prince⇔Haiti ✓
- London⇔England ✓
- Which words have the [an/en] sound?
- absent ✓
- animal
- présent ✓
- grand ✓
- petit
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Choose the correct meaning.- content
- triste ✓
- anglais
- petit
- grand
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- Who is Léa talking to or about? 'Tu es grand.'
- herself
- Clémentine (a girl)
- Yves (a boy) ✓
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- Translate: she is pleased.
- 'Elle est contente.' ✓
Exit quiz
- What is a nasal sound?
- A sound produced by air passing through your mouth only.
- A sound produced by air passing through your nose only.
- A sound produced by air passing through your nose and your mouth. ✓
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- True or false: the word 'maman' makes a nasal and an oral sound.
- 'True' ✓
- Match the French and the English.
- intelligent⇔intelligent ✓
- calme⇔calm ✓
- amusant⇔amusing, fun ✓
- malade⇔ill, sick ✓
- méchant⇔mean ✓
- Which sentence describes a girl?
- Je suis content.
- Tu es amusant.
- Il est malade.
- Elle est intelligente. ✓
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- Which of the following adjectives do not change when describing a boy or a girl?
- méchant
- content
- calme ✓
- triste ✓
- malade ✓
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- Translate: He is calm.
- 'Il est calme.' ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- The sound-symbol correspondence [an/en] is a nasal vowel and [a] is an oral vowel; both appear in the word 'maman', mum.
- Adjectives already ending in -e do not change; the final consonant in the word is pronounced, e.g., malade.
- 'Je suis', 'tu es' and 'elle, il est' are all parts of the verb 'être' to be, being.
Common misconception
Adjectives already ending in -e follow the pattern of adjective agreement and change in the feminine form.
Adjectives already ending in -e do not change.
Keywords
[an/en] - pronounced as in 'enfant'
Nasal vowel - a sound produced by air passing through both the nose and mouth
Oral vowel - a sound produced by air passing through the mouth
Il est / elle est - from the verb être meaning 'he is / she is'
Adjective agreement - a change in adjective ending, for example, adding -e to describe a girl or woman
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