By the end of todays lesson we will be able to:

Recognise, read and write adjectives of colour in French.

BLEU

ROUGE

JAUNE

VIOLET

MARRON

BLANC

NOIR

ROSE

GRIS

VERT

ORANGE

All nouns in French are either masculine or feminine.

Masculine nouns un jean Feminine nouns une chemise

un pull

une jupe

un tee-shirt

une cravate

Une robe un blouson une casquette Un sweat

In English we use colours as adjectives before a noun e.g: a black shoes, a white jacket

Des chaussures noires

un anorak blanc

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.

BLEUE

NOIRE

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)

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