Les matières les plus utiles: comparative and superlative adjectives | French

Starter quiz

Match the days of the week.

lundi

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Monday ✓

mardi

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Tuesday ✓

mercredi

⇔

Wednesday ✓

jeudi

⇔

Thursday ✓

vendredi

⇔

Friday ✓

samedi

⇔

Saturday ✓
Complete the translation 'I don't go to school on Sunday': je ne vais pas à l'école le ...

'dimanche' ✓
Match the opinion phrases.

j'aime

⇔

I like ✓

j'aime beaucoup

⇔

I like a lot ✓

j'adore

⇔

I love ✓

je n'aime pas

⇔

I don't like ✓

je n'aime pas trop

⇔

I don't really like ✓

je déteste

⇔

I hate ✓
Which sentences are comparatives?

Je n'aime pas mardi et mercredi.

J'adore le week-end parce que c'est super !

Dimanche est plus relaxant que jeudi. ✓

Lundi est moins fatigant que vendredi. ✓

Mercredi est mon jour préféré.
Which statements apply to adjectives in French?

Adjectives must agree in gender and number with the noun they describe. ✓

All adjectives go after the noun they describe.

Adjectives only have one form.

All adjectives add an 'e' to form the feminine.

Some adjectives go before the noun they describe. ✓
Translate the sentence: French is more interesting than history.

1

⇔

le

2

⇔

français

3

⇔

est

4

⇔

plus

5

⇔

intéressant

6

⇔

que

7

⇔

l'histoire

Exit quiz

Match the English and French vocabulary.

l'EPS

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PE ✓

l'art

⇔

art ✓

la chimie

⇔

chemistry ✓

la biologie

⇔

biology ✓

la musique

⇔

music ✓

l'allemand

⇔

German ✓
Which French school subjects contain the sound [qu]?

music ✓

technology

geography

physics ✓

history
Choose the comparative structures from the list.

ne ... jamais

plus ... que ✓

ne ... personne

moins ... que ✓

aussi ... que ✓
Translate the sentence: English is more difficult than physics.

1

⇔

l'anglais

2

⇔

est

3

⇔

plus

4

⇔

difficile

5

⇔

que

6

⇔

la

7

⇔

physique
Is the following sentence a comparative or superlative sentence? 'La science est la matière la plus compliquée au collège.'

'superlative' ✓
Translate the sentence: PE is the least complicated subject. 'L'EPS est la matière ______.'

'la moins compliquée' ✓

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Lesson Details

Key learning points

To make comparisons in French we use plus ...que, moins ...que and aussi ...que with adjectives and adverbs.
To describe something as the best, the most or the least, we use superlatives: le/la/les + plus/moins + adjective.
[qu] sounds like 'quatre'. There is no sound equivalent to the 'qu' sound in English.

Common misconception

[qu] is pronounced the same in French and in English.

[qu] is pronounced differently in French and in English. It is important to to recognise and pronounce sound-spelling links correctly to understand and be understood by other French speakers.

Keywords

[qu] - pronounced as in the French word 'question'
Comparative - a form of adjective or adverb used to compare people, things or ideas
Superlative - a form of adjective or adverb used to express the highest degree of a quality e.g. the tallest, the most interesting