Year 5 What I and others have: plural 'avoir' and nouns worksheet

“J'ai and adjectives after nouns” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 5 French unit “What I and others have: plural 'avoir' and nouns”, for children aged 9 to 10, 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 17 to 24 of the year, 8 sheets in the unit.

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J'ai and adjectives after nouns

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 5 · French · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can use the singular forms of avoir, and put adjectives after the noun.

A Look back3 min

1.
Circle the French word for this colour (red).
rougebleujaunevert
2.
Circle the French number for these dots.
troisquatrecinqsix
3.
Circle the French word for this colour (black).
noirrougeblancbleu

B Watch me, then you4 min

Kit's week is horrible. He tells a friend about his sister's pet tortoise. Look at how the words go together.

A small red toy car on a plain white background.

Watch me

Look at the noun first: une tortue is a feminine word.

Put the colour after the noun, and add -e for feminine: verte.

Elle a une tortue verte. = She has a green tortoise.

Now you

1.
Il a un chat ___ (white). Circle the right word.
blancblancheblancsblanches
2.
Elle a une voiture ___ (fast). Circle the right word.
rapiderapidesrapidorapidement

C Your turn7 min

Circle the word that finishes each sentence. Look at the noun and the picture first.

A tortoise on a garden path beside a pot of herbs

1.
J'ai un chien ___ (black). Circle the right word.
noirnoire
2.
J'ai une tortue ___ (black). Circle the right word.
noirnoire
3.
Tu as une tortue ___ (black). Circle the right word.
noirnoire
4.
Circle the sentence that puts the colour in the right place.
J'ai une tortue bleue.J'ai une bleue tortue.

Say it out loud: Which word did you add to the sentence, and did the noun before it change? Tell your grown-up what changed from the row above.

D Spot the mistake3 min

A black dog lying on a rug in a living room

Kit says: “J'ai un noir chien.”

1.
Write Kit's sentence correctly.

E Think deeper4 min

1.
Write one sentence with j'ai and one with tu as. Each must have an adjective after the noun. Tell your grown-up why you did or did not add an -e.

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For the grown-up

J'ai and adjectives after nouns · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. rouge

2. quatre If they pick trois, which is 3, they have missed one dot. Ask them to touch and count each dot aloud, then ask which number comes after trois.

3. noir

B

1. blanc If they pick blanche, ask whether chat is a masculine or feminine word. Masculine nouns take the plain form, so blanc.

2. rapide

C

1. noir If they pick noire, ask if chien is a masculine or feminine word. Chien is masculine, so the plain form noir is right.

2. noire If they pick noir, ask if tortue is masculine or feminine. Tortue is feminine, so the adjective needs the -e: noire.

3. noire Check the noun first. Tu as changes only the verb here, so the noun tortue is still feminine.

4. J'ai une tortue bleue. If they pick the English word order, say: in French the colour comes after the noun, like tortue bleue.

D

1. Look for: J'ai un chien noir, with noir after chien because French colours go after the noun. If they keep noir before chien, say: in French the colour goes after the noun, so it is chien noir.

E

1. Look for: Two French sentences using j'ai and tu as, each with an adjective after the noun, and an explanation of the -e using the noun's gender.

Words to use

Say“Tell me the noun first. Is it a boy word or a girl word? Then which ending does the colour need?”

Instead of“Just tell them the answer, or say the colour word in English and let them guess the French order.”

After the sheet

Put a red cup and a blue pen on the table. Say J'ai une tasse rouge and J'ai un stylo bleu, then swap who makes the sentence. StudyDen plays the French words aloud in the app, so listen 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

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

To have or to be(with a plan)
Blue pens and green rubbers(with a plan)
In class in French(with a plan)
We have, you have(with a plan)
Who has what in French(with a plan)
Hair and eyes in French(with a plan)
All about me in French(with a plan)

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