Semaine 2 cours 3 : les nationalités / les adjectifs / le verbe être

• Frans
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Je suis français

•  Greetings
• les nationalités (nationalities)
• les adjectifs (adjectives)
• le verbe être

 

Greetings

Do the activity on the following slide and write down the new words in your notebook.

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Les nationalités

PP1, Page 26. Exercice 5A. 

Instruction:  observe the nationalities. In your notebook, make two columns and associate masculine with feminine.  Masculine on the left, Feminine on the right.

Les adjectifs

Instruction: In your notebook, sort the adjectives like in the chart below.

Find the rules

Write the rules in the bottom of each column.

français vs française
The feminine is formed by adding...

italien vs italienne
The feminine is formed by adding...

belge vs belge
Masculine and feminine are...

La traduction

Instruction: Use www.wordreference.com ou www.linguee.fr 

Find the nationalities of the following countries and write them in your notebook:

la France            l'Inde             le Japon          la Russie

les États-Unis            le Canada         l'Afrique du Sud

la France
... ou ...

l'Inde
... ou ...

le Japon
... ou ...

la Russie
... ou ...

les États-Unis
... ou ...

le Canada
... ou ...

l'Afrique du Sud
... ou ...

Et toi ? Quelle est ta nationalité ?

Le verbe "être"

"être" = to be

être

Watch the video in the next slide and identify the subject pronouns:

I, you (singular), he, she, we, you (plural), they.

I = je

you = ?

he = ?

...

Write down these pronouns in French and in English.

le verbe être : now complete the table in your notebook with the conjugation of this verb. (left column: subject pronoun / right column: verb "être")

je	suis
tu
il / elle
nous
vous
ils / elles

Answers

je	suis
tu	es
il / elle	est
nous	sommes
vous	êtes
ils / elles	sont

This verb is irregular in French.
Is it irregular in your best language?

At the end of this lesson, you should:

- know how to say hello, goodbye, ask "how are you " and answer this question

- know how to say some nationalities, including yours

- know how to write and pronounce the masculine / feminine forms of the adjectives: general rule and exceptions

- know the subject pronouns (i, you...)

- know how to conjugate verb "être" (to be)