Year 6 School: 'avoir', 'être' , 'il y a' and regular verbs in the present worksheet

“Saying how people feel” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 6 French unit “School: 'avoir', 'être' , 'il y a' and regular verbs in the present”, for children aged 10 to 11, 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 1 to 3 of the year, 3 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Saying how people feel

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 6 · French · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can say how someone feels in French, with the right ending and silent letters.

A Look back3 min

1.
What is this colour in French? Circle the word.
rougebleuvert
2.
How many dots are there? Circle the French number.
deuxquatresix
3.
Join the French colour to the English word.
bleuvert
greenblue

B Watch me, then you4 min

Ali is happy, and Ali is a boy. In French, 'happy' is heureux. Let's see how it is written and said.

A brave lion standing on a rock in warm sunshine

Watch me

Heureux means happy, and it is for a boy.

Il est heureux. (He is happy.)

The x at the end is silent, so say 'uh-ruh'.

Now you

1.
Il est ____ (brave, a boy). Circle the word.
courageuxcourageusecourage
2.
Elle est ____ (happy, a girl). Circle the word.
heureuxheureuseheureusement

C Your turn8 min

Read each sentence out loud before you choose. Listen for the silent letters.

An empty school classroom with desks, a blackboard and a window

1.
Il est ____ (happy, a boy). Circle the word.
heureuxheureuse
2.
Elle est ____ (ready, a girl). Circle the word.
prêtprête
3.
Il est ____ (pleased, a boy). Circle the word.
contentcontente
4.
Mia is a girl and she is sad. Which sentence is right? Circle it.
il est tristeelle est triste

Say it out loud: Say each sentence aloud. Which letter at the end did you NOT say? What did the ending change?

D Spot the mistake3 min

Kit says: “To say 'and you?' in French I write 'et tu ?'.”

1.
What should Kit write instead? Circle the phrase.
et tu ?et toi ?

E Think deeper4 min

Two classroom windows side by side, one showing bright sunshine and one showing dark rain clouds

1.
Write two short sentences about feelings with est or suis. Use one boy word and one girl word. Underline one silent final consonant in each, and say them aloud.

How did it feel?

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Saying how people feel · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. rouge If they circle bleu or vert, they know colour words but not this one. Point to the swatch and say rouge together.

2. quatre

3. bleu → blue; vert → green

B

1. courageux If they circle courageuse, that is the girl's form. Ask them whether the person is a boy or a girl.

2. heureuse If they circle heureux, they have used the boy's form. Ask: is the person a girl? Then the ending changes from eux to euse.

C

1. heureux If they circle heureuse, they have used the girl's form. Say the sentence aloud and ask who it is about.

2. prête If they circle prêt, they have the boy's form. The feminine adds an e, so it becomes prête.

3. content If they circle contente, they have used the girl's form. Il is for a boy, so there is no e and the t stays silent.

4. elle est triste If they circle il est triste, the pronoun is for a boy. Ask them to say who Mia is, then choose the pronoun.

D

1. et toi ? If they circle et tu ?, they have learned the phrase but not the pronoun rule. After 'et' French uses toi, so say 'et toi ?' aloud.

E

1. Look for: Two sentences using est or suis, one masculine and one feminine adjective, with a silent final consonant underlined such as the x in heureux.

Words to use

Say“You do not need to speak French. StudyDen plays the French words aloud in the app, so ask them to listen first, then say it back. Which letter did you not say?”

Instead of“Tell them the French is too hard, or read the answers out for them before they have tried.”

After the sheet

Write heureux, heureuse, prêt and prête on paper cards. Sort them into a 'he' pile and a 'she' pile, saying each card aloud and noticing which final letters you do not say.

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

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

Counting and 'il n'y a pas'(with a plan)
Ils and elles at school(with a plan)

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