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Leçon
Date: vendredi vingt-six septembre
Sujet: Les couleurs.
Objectives:
1.Fill in the gaps exercise
2.Ex. 6 page 8 (white booklet)
3.Ex. 5 page 8 (white booklet)
All nouns in French are either masculine or feminine.Masculine nouns
un livre
un stylo
un cahier
un taille-crayon
un crayon
un feutre
un sac
Feminine nouns
une régle
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 stylo bleuun livre rouge
un crayon jaune
MasculineMasculine FeminineFeminine
rouge - rouge - redred rougerouge
vert - vert - greengreen verteverte
blanc - blanc - whitewhite blancheblanche
noir - noir - blackblack noirenoire
rose -rose -pinkpink roserose
marron -marron -brownbrown marronmarron
bleu -bleu -blueblue bleuebleue
jaune -jaune -yellowyellow jaunejaune
violet - violet - purplepurple violetteviolette
gris -gris -greygrey grisegrise
Copy to your jotters:
Homework: read the sentences and write the colour in 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 _____________.
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 or marron (chestnut)
Today we have learned that:Today we have learned that:
In French, adjectives of colour are written after the noun.
Colour adjectives agree gender with the noun they describe.