French Colours & Adjective Agreement | Les Couleurs | Year 7 KS3 French
French Colours & Adjective Agreement – Les Couleurs | KS3 Year 7
A comprehensive, ready-to-teach Year 7 / KS3 French lesson introducing colours and developing students’ understanding of French adjective position and agreement.
Students progress from recognising and saying colours to using them accurately with masculine, feminine and plural nouns.
Students will learn to:
Recognise and use common colours in French
Ask and answer C’est quelle couleur ?
Understand that French colour adjectives usually come after the noun
Recognise masculine and feminine adjective forms
Apply adjective agreement
Use plural adjective forms
Describe objects accurately in French
Key vocabulary includes:
rouge, jaune, bleu/bleue, vert/verte, blanc/blanche, violet/violette, rose, gris/grise, noir/noire, orange and marron.
Activities include:
Do Now / retrieval from previous learning
Vocabulary presentation and pronunciation
Listening activities
Speaking practice
Colour recognition
Mini-whiteboard activities
Grammar explanation and modelling
Masculine vs feminine adjective practice
Adjective agreement tables
Sentence-level grammar practice
Reading: spot and correct the mistakes
Grammar challenge explaining why the mistakes are incorrect
Independent classroom-description writing
Extension using connectives and negative sentences
Plenary / retrieval
The lesson moves from vocabulary recognition to grammatical understanding and independent application.
Students learn patterns such as:
un scooter bleu → une balle bleue
un scooter bleu → des scooters bleus
une balle bleue → des balles bleues
The reading task challenges students to identify and correct adjective-agreement mistakes before applying the same rules independently in their own writing.
The final task asks students to describe their classroom using structures such as:
Dans ma classe, il y a…
Dans ma trousse, il y a…
Dans mon sac, il y a…
More confident students can extend their writing using connectives and negative structures such as il n’y a pas…
Perfect for:
Year 7 French • KS3 French • Beginner French • Colours • Adjective agreement • Masculine & feminine • Grammar • Classroom objects
Includes: Editable 26-slide PowerPoint with answers, differentiated challenges and opportunities to practise listening, speaking, reading and writing.






