How people do things: comparative adjectives and adverbs
Learning outcomes
I can use adjectives to compare people and things and adverbs to compare how people do things.
I can recognise that [um] and [un] are identical nasal sounds before a consonant or at the end of a word, but are different oral sounds before a vowel.
How people do things: comparative adjectives and adverbs
Learning outcomes
I can use adjectives to compare people and things and adverbs to compare how people do things.
I can recognise that [um] and [un] are identical nasal sounds before a consonant or at the end of a word, but are different oral sounds before a vowel.
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Key learning points
- Before a consonant or at the end of a word the SSCs [um/un] sound the same; they are both nasal sounds.
- When ‘um’ or ‘un’ come before a vowel the ‘m’ and ‘n’ are pronounced and the two oral sounds are like [u] + 'm' or 'n'.
- The three ways to compare two nouns using a comparative adjective are 'plus...que', 'moins...que' and 'aussi... que'.
- The adjective goes in the middle of the comparative phrase; for example, 'Le village est plus grand que la ville'.
- In the same way, we can compare how people do things using adverbs in the middle e.g. Léa travaille plus vite qu'Amir.
Keywords
[u] - sound-symbol correspondence pronounced as the [u] in 'tu'
[um/un] - sound-symbol correspondence pronounced as the [um/un] in 'parfum'; it is a nasal sound
Adjective - word that gives information about a noun
Adverb - word that describes a verb or an adjective
Common misconception
I only use adjectives with comparative structures like 'plus ... que'.
Adjectives help us to compare two nouns with comparative structures such as 'plus ... que'. For example, 'Emily est plus petite que Lucy'. We can use adverbs in the same way to compare how people do things. For example, 'Emily va plus vite que Lucy'.
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Starter quiz
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joue
joues
jouons
jouez
jouent
Exit quiz
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(on the) left
(on the) right
far (from)
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