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By the end of today’s lesson we will be able to:
Recognise, read and write adjectives of colour
in French.
BLEU ROUGE JAUNE VIOLET
MARRONBLANC
NOIRROSE
GRIS VERT ORANGE
All nouns in French are either masculine or feminine.Masculine nouns
un livre
un stylo
un cahier
un taille crayons
un crayon
un feutre
un sac
Feminine nouns
une règle
une trousse
une gomme
une calculette
une feuille
In English we use colours as adjectives before a noun eg:-
a yellow pencil, a red book, a blue pen
In French we use colours as adjectives after a noun.
un stylojaune un livrerougeun crayon
bleu
What do you notice in these sentences?
The words for these colours have changed?
Why do you think these words are different? They describe feminine nouns.
These are the colour words which change with a feminine noun.
BLEUENOIRE
VIOLETTE BLANCHEGRISEVERTE
With a partner, can you think of a rule for deciding how and when to change the colour word?These are rules.
•When referring to a feminine noun, add an e unless the word already ends in e
•Exceptions:
•violette blanche
•No agreement when the adjective of colour is named after a fruit, orange marron (chestnut)
Remember the agreement rules and complete the following sentences in your jotter. Write the sentences in English and French.
1. I have a blue pen.
J’ai un stylo ________.
2. I have a green pencil case.
J’ai une trousse ______________.
3. I have a yellow felt tip pen.
J’ai un feutre ___________
4. I have a white back pack.
J’ai un sac _____________
5. I have a white rubber.
J’ai une gomme _____________.Write another 3 sentences of your own, in English and in French.
Today we have learned that:
In French, adjectives of colour are written after the noun.
Colour adjectives agree gender with the noun they describe.
There are rules to help us remember how and when to do this.
We can use these rules