Year 5 explore adjectival agreement

As part of their personal descriptions topic, Year 5 have been using the dictionaries to explore adjectival agreement. They have been discovering how French adjectives change their endings to match the nouns they describe - this is adjectival agreement.

"It's hard for us to understand because our language (English) doesn't have gender so we don't need to do this. It's fund using the dictionaries to look up works and work out the different spelling patterns."

Year 4 are delving deep into the French dictionaries

This week Year 4 have had their first French session using bilingual dictionaries to look up new language from English and also to translate common places in the town from French into English. As part of their Town topic this term, Year 4 have been learning all about gender or nouns and how the articles & determiners can help tell us a noun's gender (masculine or feminine) and how they work in French - did you know a bilingual dictionary will tell you the gender of a noun (masc or fem) as well as the translation?

Here are some photos of Year 4 exploring the dictionaries this week.

French Winter Calligrams

This week in French, Year 4 learnt some wintery words and as a memory technique, we practised how to write and spell them by creating calligrams. Some looked very artistic and it was an extra chance for us to practise our handwriting.

Can you guess what each word means, based on the shape that is being created?

Year 3 French alphabet challenge!

This week Year 3 have been learning the sounds for the letters in the French alphabet, so they will soon be able to spell words in French!

Miss Ansell has set them a challenge this week - to learn the French alphabet off by heart!

Join in with this video to help learn the sounds.

Which ones sound like English letters? Which letters sound quite similar? Which are harder to pronounce? What memory hooks have you learn to help you remember them?