By the end of today’s lesson we will be able to:
Recognise, read and write adjectives of colour
in French.
BLEU
MARRON
GRIS
ROUGE
BLANC
VERT
JAUNE
VIOLET
NOIR
ROSE
ORANGE
All nouns in French are either masculine or feminine.
Masculine nouns
Feminine nouns
un livre
une règle
un stylo
une trousse
un cahier
une gomme
un taille crayons
une calculette
un crayon
une feuille
un feutre
un sac
In English we use colours as adjectives before a noun eg:a yellow pencil,
un crayon jaune
a red book, a blue pen
un livre rouge
un stylo bleu
In French we use colours as adjectives after a noun.
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.
NOIRE
BLEUE
VIOLETTE
VERTE
GRISE
BLANCHE
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