Friends: adjectives ending in -e
Learning outcomes
I can understand when listening and reading whether a sentence is referring to a boy or to a girl.
I can recognise and pronounce nasal and oral vowels.
Friends: adjectives ending in -e
Learning outcomes
I can understand when listening and reading whether a sentence is referring to a boy or to a girl.
I can recognise and pronounce nasal and oral vowels.
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Key learning points
- The sound-symbol correspondence [an/en] is a nasal vowel and [a] is an oral vowel; both appear in the word 'maman', mum.
- Adjectives already ending in -e do not change; the final consonant in the word is pronounced, e.g., malade.
- 'Je suis', 'tu es' and 'elle, il est' are all parts of the verb 'être' to be, being.
Keywords
[an/en] - pronounced as in 'enfant'
Nasal vowel - a sound produced by air passing through both the nose and mouth
Oral vowel - a sound produced by air passing through the mouth
Il est / elle est - from the verb être meaning 'he is / she is'
Adjective agreement - a change in adjective ending, for example, adding -e to describe a girl or woman
Common misconception
Adjectives already ending in -e follow the pattern of adjective agreement and change in the feminine form.
Adjectives already ending in -e do not change.
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