Year 3 What I and others have: singular 'avoir' and nouns worksheet

“Un or une?” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 3 French unit “What I and others have: singular 'avoir' and nouns”, for children aged 7 to 8, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 15 to 24 of the year, 10 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Un or une?

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 3 · French · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can name everyday objects with 'un' or 'une'.

A Look back3 min

1.
How do you say 4 in French? Circle one.
deuxquatrecinq
2.
Which French word means red? Circle one.
rougebleuvert
3.
How do you say 3 in French? Circle one.
troissixquatre

B Watch me, then you4 min

Lulu has a school bag. How do we say 'a bag' in French? Sac is the French word for bag.

Watch me

Sac is a masculine word.

Masculine words take 'un' in front.

So we say: un sac (a bag).

Now you

1.
Which word goes in front of livre (a book)? Circle one.
unune

C Your turn6 min

Circle the right word for each object. The desk shows some of them.

A wooden desk with a pen, a bottle, a toy and an orange

1.
Which word goes with stylo (a pen)? Circle one.
unune
2.
Which word goes with bouteille (a bottle)? Circle one.
unune
3.
Which word goes with orange (an orange, the fruit)? Circle one.
unune
4.
Which word goes with jouet (a toy)? Circle one.
unune

Say it out loud: Say the article first, then the noun, every time. Which words took 'un', and which took 'une'?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A school bag hanging on the back of a chair

Bea says: “une sac, because a bag is a girl’s thing.”

1.
Which article is right for sac (a bag)? Circle one.
unune

E Think deeper3 min

Look at the pencil case in the picture. Name three things you could put in your own bag, in French if you can.

An open pencil case with a ruler and a rubber

1.
Write three things, each with un or une. Put a question mark next to any you are not sure of.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Un or une? · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. quatre If they circle cinq (5), they may be counting one more dot than there is. Count the dots together, then say quatre (4).

2. rouge

3. trois If they circle quatre (4), they have counted one dot too many. Point to each dot and say the numbers out loud, then circle trois (3).

B

1. un If they circle une, they may think a book is a girl's thing. Remind them that livre is masculine, so it takes un.

C

1. un If they circle une, they may be guessing from how the word sounds. Say: stylo is masculine, so it takes un.

2. une If they circle un, ask them which group bouteille belongs to. Bouteille is feminine, so it takes une.

3. une If they circle un, they may be thinking of the colour word. Orange the fruit is feminine here, so it takes une.

4. un If they circle une, they may think a toy is a girl's thing. Gender here is grammar. Jouet is masculine, so un.

D

1. un Bea has mixed up grammar with real life. Gender is a grammar label, not whether a thing is a boy or a girl. Sac is masculine, so un sac.

E

1. Look for: Three objects, each with un or une in front, with a question mark on any that is a guess.

Words to use

Say“Say the article with the noun every time, like un stylo. StudyDen plays the French words aloud in the app, so listen to them first.”

Instead of“Translate the English word only, or tell them the article is just a rule to memorise.”

After the sheet

Gather a pen, a bottle and an orange. Say each one with un or une, then check your answers against this sheet together.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

9 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Is the t awake?(with a plan)
Rising voice, what is it?(with a plan)
I have, he has, she has(with a plan)
Questions with tu as(with a plan)
Who Has What?(with a plan)
Who has? Who is?(with a plan)
Strange Dream Sounds(with a plan)
Lulu, la tortue(with a plan)
Packing a bag(with a plan)

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