Les Couleurs

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.