French Teaching Resources. Possessive Adjectives Worksheet & French - English Cards.

This worksheet practises the possessive adjectives: mon, ma, mes, ton, ta, tes and son, sa, ses.

It starts with short translations for mon, ma and mes e.g.

We use mon to talk about someone or something masculine:
e.g. Je mets mon pull = _________________________________________.

Then the students must fill in a table eliciting ton, ta tes and son sa, ses.

The next exercise tells students to:

(i) Underline all the possessive adjectives in the following 4 sentences.
(ii) Translate the sentences into English

Example sentence:

1. Je mets mon pull noir, mon sweat bleu, mes chaussettes rouges et mes baskets blanches =

Finally there is an extension task to write 7 of their own sentences.

I use these matching cards having taught clothes, colours and possessive adjectives to revise this vocabulary and grammar. Stronger students will be challenged by the range of tenses and adjectives.

Expressions:

Quand je vais au collège je mets ma chemise blanche.
Quand il y a du soleil je porte mes lunettes de soleil.
Quand je vais chez mes grands-parents je porte ma robe rouge.
Je préfère mes chaussures vertes car elles sont très confortables.
Quand il pleut nous mettons notre anorak jaune.
Hier j’ai porté mon short bleu car il y avait du soleil.
Demain je vais mettre ma casquette bleu-clair car j’aime le look décontracté.
Ma sœur porte son tee-shirt marron et son jean car c’est très confortable.
Hier nous avons porté une cravate; c’était pratique mais un peu moche.

You may choose to have different levels of challenge. For example,

Level 1 = match the cards and discuss the pronunciation.

Level 2 = match the cards , discuss the pronunciation and then have quick fire questions from French to English, whereby 1 student closes their eyes and their partner reads out the French cards which the student must translate into English from memory.

Level 3 = As Level 2 but the quick fire questions are from English to French.

Following checking there are 2 fun games to play, either pelmenism or a game I learnt in Japan called Karuta. In Karuta the students put the English language cards to one side and spread out the French cards in front of them. I then say the English and the students compete to touch the correct French card first. Whoever touches it first wins the card. The student with the most cards at the end of the game wins. The students love this game!