French Teaching Resources. PowerPoint Presentation: Adjectives

Expressions taught:

Je suis...
intelligent/ intelligente
marrant/ marrante
patient/ patiente
courageux/ courageuse
sympa
sérieux/ sérieuse
calme
travailleur/ travailleuse
généreux/ généreuse

The first slide encourages the students to actively engage with the new vocabulary: working in teams, using their prior knowledge, knowledge of other languages and using a process of elimination to figure out the meanings. They then discuss the pronunciation and question each other before the teacher checks with the whole class.

The next slides have the phrase and a picture. Use this to elicit the pronunciation, the English, the rules and to drill.

Slide 12 recaps the original slide to allow you to check the student's comprehension.

The next section of slides have mutiple choice questions. Then there are "what's missing?" slides. The final slide has pictures of all the phrases. This can be used for a Beat the Teacher game, which the students love!
The teacher points to a picture and says a word. If it is the correct word the students all repeat it. If its the wrong word the students must stay absolutely silent. If they do, they win 1 point. If not, the teacher gets 1 point. Most points wins!

The final slide can be used for revision the following lesson.

I usually use my French Battleships/ Lotto Grid Adjectives game after the presentation to progress into using the different forms of être:
Vocabulary:
Je suis
Tu es
Il est
Elle est
On est
Nous sommes
Vous êtes
Ils sont
Elles sont

sympa.
intelligent(s)/ intelligente(s).
courageux/ courageuse(s).
marrant(s)/ marrante(s).
patient(s)/ patiente(s).
travailleur(s)/ travailleuse(s).
généreux/ généreuse(s).

Battleships Game
Instructions

Firstly I ask the students to work independently in pairs to translate the expressions.

I then check the translations and drill pronunciation with the whole class before they play the game. The students secretly choose 5 squares on the top grid and then try to guess which 5 squares their partner has chosen, filling in the bottom grid with “hit” and “miss.” To choose a square say a phrase from the horizontal line and complete the sentence with a phrase from the vertical line. Where the 2 phrases meet up is the square you have chosen.

I use the English language sheet to further challenge the students: they should place this on top of the French version and then try to play the game saying the French phrases as far as possible from memory. I allow the really weak students to have the French version next to the English version so they have lots of support, stronger students are allowed a few "sneaky peaks"!