Describe a person or thing: être 1st and 3rd persons singular | French

Starter quiz

Which words have a Silent Final Consonant (SFC)?
- malade
- grand ✓
- française
- anglais ✓
- rat ✓
Which English word matches each French word?
- bonjour
  
  ⇔
  
  hello ✓
- écrire
  
  ⇔
  
  to write, writing ✓
- être
  
  ⇔
  
  to be, being ✓
- écouter
  
  ⇔
  
  to listen, listening ✓
- au revoir
  
  ⇔
  
  goodbye ✓
- et
  
  ⇔
  
  and ✓
Which words can be used to describe a female?
- anglais
- française ✓
- grande ✓
- petit
- grand
Which word is missing from this sentence? ______ suis anglais.
- 'Je' ✓
Which word is missing from this sentence? Tu ______ français.
- 'es' ✓
Write this sentence completely in French: Je am petite and English.
- 'Je suis petite et anglaise.' ✓

Which words have the [i] sound in them?
- français
- intelligent ✓
- triste ✓
- mais
- suis ✓
What is a cognate?
- A word that looks similar in French and English but means something different.
- A French word whose meaning cannot be recognised from its spelling.
- A word that looks similar in French and English and has the same meaning. ✓
Which sound does 'elle' start with?
- The same sound as we hear at the start of the word easy?
- The same sound as we hear at the start of the word egg? ✓
- The same sound as we hear at the start of the word ill?
Which is the missing word? Elle ______ grande et calme.
- 'est' ✓
Which is the missing word? ______ est petit et méchant.
- 'Il' ✓
Which is the conjunction in this sentence? Il est intelligent mais triste.
- 'mais' ✓

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[i] sounds like midi.
être means 'to be, being', je suis means 'I am', il est means 'he is' and elle est means 'she is'.
Je means 'I', il means 'he' and elle means 'she'. They are pronouns.
Cognates are words which share most of the same letters in two languages (e.g. English and French).

'Elle' meaning she is pronounced with an [i] sound at the start.

'Elle' is pronounced with a hard e sound like in egg.

[i] - as pronounced in midi
Cognate - words with the same meaning and same or similar spelling in English and French
Conjunction - a word that links two ideas like 'and' or 'but'