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Available as an instant downloadable file, Avoir Workpages provides an assortment of reproducible exercises at different levels to provide your students with extra practice for this essential verb. Many of the pages provided are taken from Nallenart's popular curriculum, L'Art de LIRE.

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French colour words, like other adjectives, must change their forms depending on whether the nouns they are describing are masculine (le/un words) or feminine (la/une words) and singular or plural.

Eg. le crayon noir (the black pencil)
      les crayons noirs (the black pencils)
      la chaussure noire (the black shoe)
      les chaussures noires (the black shoes)

Masculine Singular	Masculine Plural	Feminine Singular	Feminine Plural
vert	verts	verte	vertes
noir	noirs	noire	noires
violet	violets	violette	violettes
brun	bruns	brune	brunes
gris	gris	grise	grises
bleu	bleus	bleue	bleues
blanc	blancs	blanche	blanches

The colours below are the same whether they are masculine or feminine.

Masculine Singular	Masculine Plural	Feminine Singular	Feminine Plural
rouge	rouges	rouge	rouges
jaune	jaunes	jaune	jaunes
rose	roses	rose	roses
orange	oranges	orange	oranges

Can you translate the colours in the chart above?

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French adjectives can change their forms depending on whether the nouns they describe are masculine or feminine, singular or plural. Usually the feminine form adds “e” to the masculine adjective. This can change the pronunciation of the adjective by causing the final consonant to be pronounced.


Eg.: The dog is small.
     ms Le chien est petit. (puh-TEE)

The mouse is small.
     fs La souris est petite. (puh-TEET)


The plural form adds “s.” This “s” is almost never pronounced.

Eg.: The dogs are small.
     mp Les chiens sont petits. (puh-TEE)

The mice are small.
     fp Les souris sont petites. (puh-TEET)

In English, the adjective doesn't change,but in French it must agree in number (singular or plural) and in gender (masculine or feminine) with the noun that it is describing. Remember this when you are using any French adjective, especially colour words.

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Aller means to go in French. Aller is an irregular verb, which means it doesn't follow a particular pattern when it is conjugated. Take some time to memorize this important verb!

I go = je vais
you go = tu vas
he goes = il va
she goes = elle va
we go = nous allons
you go = vous allez
they go = ils vont, elles vont

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The sound that is sometimes represented by zh in phonetic notation is fairly rare in English.

In English, we use the zh sound in:

• g in beige
• s in usual

In French, it is the sound made by the letter j:

• je (I)
• jambon (ham)
• jardin (garden)

It is also the soft sound made by the letter g:

• girafe (giraffe)
• manger (to eat)

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The French u sound is different from any sound we have in English. It is very close to the "oo" sound in food, but not exactly the same. To make the French u sound shape your tongue and teeth as if you are going to say "ee" and shape your lips as if you are going to say "oo" in food. The sound that comes out will be the French u sound!

Can you translate these French words?

tortue (tor-TY) - hint: a slow-moving animal
brune (bryn) - hint: brunette
tulipe (ty-LEEP) - hint: a spring flower
tuque (tyk) - hint: keeps your head warm in winter
lune (lyn) - hint: lunar

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* "y" = the French u sound. Please note that these guides give only an approximation of the real French sounds.
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Sometimes French uses accents to show what kind of sound a certain letter should have. In French é says "ay." Here are some é words for you to translate.

bébé (bay-BAY)
téléphone (tay-lay-FUN)
éléphant (ay-lay-FAH)
café (ca-FAY)
télévision (tay-lay-vee-ZYOH)

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* Please note that these guides give only an approximation of the real French sounds.
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In French, the letter a makes a short sound like the a in sack. Can you translate these French words based on their sound?

sac (sak)
radio (rad-YOH)
carotte (ca-RUT)
table (TA-bluh)
salade (sa-LAD)

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* Please note that these guides give only an approximation of the real French sounds.
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