The document provides instructions for a French language task that involves looking up various school supply words in an online dictionary to determine their gender, either feminine or masculine. It then asks the learner to indicate the gender of each word and explain any they were unsure of. Finally, it prompts applying rules of adjective agreement to modify adjectives to match different nouns when translating phrases into French.
The document provides instructions for a French language task that involves looking up various school supply words in an online dictionary to determine their gender, either feminine or masculine. It then asks the learner to indicate the gender of each word and explain any they were unsure of. Finally, it prompts applying rules of adjective agreement to modify adjectives to match different nouns when translating phrases into French.
The document provides instructions for a French language task that involves looking up various school supply words in an online dictionary to determine their gender, either feminine or masculine. It then asks the learner to indicate the gender of each word and explain any they were unsure of. Finally, it prompts applying rules of adjective agreement to modify adjectives to match different nouns when translating phrases into French.
1. Using www.wordreference.com look up the following words.
Backpack ____________________ Pencil case ____________________ Pen __________________________ Pencil ________________________ Ruler ________________________ 2. Which of these nouns are feminine and which of these nouns are masculine? Mark F or M next to the words above. If you are not too sure wordreference will indicate nf (for feminine) or nm (for masculine).
3. Which ones were you unsure about and why?
4. But then how would I say:
The black book _______________________________ The black books_______________________________ The nice teacher (male) ________________________ The nice teachers (males) _______________________ The generous friend _______________________ The generous friends ______________________ An interesting teacher _________________________ Some interesting teachers ______________________ 5. How do we change the adjectives (describing words) to match the nouns (name of a person, place, or thing). Clue: there is more than 1 thing that we look at.