Year 4 Activities: singular regular -ER verbs worksheet

“Whose is it? Using de” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 4 French unit “Activities: singular regular -ER verbs”, for children aged 8 to 9, 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 11 to 14 of the year, 4 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Whose is it? Using de

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 4 · French · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can say and write who something belongs to, using de instead of an apostrophe.

A Look back3 min

1.
Which French word means blue?
bleuvertnoir
2.
Which French word is this number of dots?
troisquatrecinq
3.
The clock shows 2 o'clock. Which French word means two?
undeuxtrois

B Watch me, then you4 min

Mia has a black cat. In French, we show who owns it by using de (of), not an apostrophe.

A sunny French street with a black cat, a red bike, a blue house and a bowl of lemons

Watch me

A black cat sitting beside a red front door of a small house

le chat = the cat

Mia owns the cat, so: le chat de Mia

le chat de Mia = Mia's cat

Now you

1.
Circle the French phrase that means Sam's bike.
le vélo de Samle vélo 's SamSam le vélo
2.
Le vélo de Sam est ___. (Sam's bike is red.) Circle the word.
rougebleunoir

C Your turn7 min

Look at the street picture. Write each French phrase with de. Then say the English meaning.

1.
Write in French: Tom's lemon. (lemon = le citron)
2.
Write in French: Ben's bike.
3.
Write in French: Bea's house. (house = la maison)
4.
Le chat de Mia est ___. (Mia's cat is black.) Circle the word.
noirrougevert

Say it out loud: Say it out loud: what word comes between the thing and the owner, and what does it replace?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A grey cat sitting on a wall beside a red bike

Kit says: “le chat 's Mia.”

1.
What is wrong with Kit's phrase? Write one reason in English.

E Think deeper3 min

Giant sculptures of lemons and oranges in a town square at night

1.
Menton is a town in France. Every year it holds a lemon festival called la Fête du Citron de Menton. Why does de come before Menton? Explain in English.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Whose is it? Using de · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. bleu

2. quatre

3. deux

B

1. le vélo de Sam your child has put the owner first or used 's. Remind them that French turns it round and uses de before the owner's name.

2. rouge

C

1. Look for: le citron de Tom, with de between citron and Tom and no apostrophe-s If your child writes Tom's citron or le citron 's Tom, say that French turns the phrase round and uses de. Ask them to say le citron de Tom aloud.

2. Look for: le vélo de Ben, with de between vélo and Ben and no apostrophe-s If your child writes le vélo 's Ben, point to the word de and ask what it means. It means of.

3. Look for: la maison de Bea, with la kept for maison and de before Bea If your child writes le maison, ask whether maison is a la word or a le word. Then keep de before Bea.

4. noir

D

1. Look for: says that French has no apostrophe-s and uses de instead, as in le chat de Mia If your child only says the word order is wrong, ask what French uses in place of 's. Then point to de.

E

1. Look for: explains that de means of and links the festival to the town of Menton

Words to use

Say“Who owns it? Say the French with de, then the English. StudyDen plays the French words aloud in the app.”

Instead of“Add an apostrophe-s to the French word, like Mia's chat.”

After the sheet

Walk round the home with your child. Point to things that belong to people and say them as le or la, de, then the name, such as le sac de Mum.

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

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

Adjectives that change(with a plan)
Sunday with -er verbs(with a plan)
Two ways to say it(with a plan)

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