Starter quiz
- Match the French and English vocabulary.
- clairement⇔clearly ✓
- réellement⇔really ✓
- complètement⇔completely ✓
- rapidement⇔quickly ✓
- sérieusement⇔seriously ✓
- malheureusement⇔unfortunately ✓
- What word is the odd one out?
- apparemment
- différemment
- particulièrement ✓
- suffisamment
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- Write the ordinal number for deux.
- 'Deuxième' ✓
- Translate: I have blond hair. 'J'ai les ______ blonds.'
- 'cheveux ' ✓
- What does 'La planète est en train de changer' mean?
- The planet is changing because of trains.
- The planet has just changed.
- The planet is in process of changing. ✓
- Trains are going to change the planet.
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- Translate: 'L'inondation vient de toucher beaucoup d'habitants.'
- The flood is affecting many residents.
- The flood will affect many residents.
- The flood is affecting many residents.
- The flood has just affected many residents. ✓
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Exit quiz
- Coche les bonnes traductions de 'le beau-père'.
- The father-in-law ✓
- The beautiful father
- The stepfather ✓
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- What is the definite article 'the' in French for the plural?
- 'les' ✓
- What letter is added most commonly to nouns to make them plural in French?
- s
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- What letter do nouns ending in -eu, -(e)au, -al or ail make their plurals with?
- x
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- Do nouns ending in -s or -x change in the plural? Coche les bonnes réponses.
- Yes, you add another -s to them.
- Yes, you add another -x to them.
- No, they don't change. ✓
- Yes, you add a -e to them.
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- Relie les noms masculins aux noms féminins.
- consommateur⇔consommatrice ✓
- chrétien⇔chrétienne ✓
- ministre⇔ministre ✓
- Chinois⇔Chinoise ✓
- créateur⇔créatrice ✓
- catholique⇔cathollique ✓
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Key learning points
- There are 4 ways to turn a masculine noun into a feminine noun: add an e, change article, -n to -nne, -eur to -rice.
- If a masculine noun ends in -e, there's no change for feminine; if it ends in -s or -x, there's no change for plural.
- We usually make nouns plural by adding -s. Nouns ending in -eu, -(e)au, -al, or -ail make their plurals with -x.
- [ien] sounds like 'bien', [eu/oeu] sounds like 'coeur', [eu] sounds like 'deux' and [au] sounds like 'gauche'.
Common misconception
The only way to form the singular of a feminine noun is to add -e. The only way to form the plural of a noun is to add -s.
There are 4 ways to form feminine nouns which need careful practice. Similarly, there is more than one way to form plural nouns depending upon the final letter of the singular noun.
Keywords
[o], [au], [eau] - all oropronounced like the [o] in moto
Agreement - the way , adjec or nouns change according to gender and number
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