Transcript Slide 1

Starter
 Write
these words in alphabetical order:
Paris, grand, jouer, aller, tennis, biologie,
intelligent, manger, glace, chien, avoir.
 Write
“V” next to the verbs
 Write “N” next to the nouns
 Write “A” next to the adjectives
Réponse:
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aller (V)
avoir (V)
biologie (N)
chien (N)
glace (N)
grand (A)
intelligent (A)
jouer (V)
manger (V)
Paris (N)
tennis (N)
 For
your GCSE assessments it is essential
to be able to use a dictionary well by:...knowing the different types of words which
make up sentences (verb/ noun/ adjective)
...having the skill to identify/select the correct
word(s) from a dictionary
....using the grammatical information in
dictionaries successfully to your advantage
Nouns in a Dictionary
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When you need to find the French for an English
word, you fist need to decide whether you are
looking for a noun, verb or adjective
 Which word is the noun out of the following:
buy
give
happy
monkey
stupid
Remember, a noun is
the name of
something!
What’s in a name?
 Let’s
look up “monkey” to see what it is in
French.
 You should find something like this:
 Monkey
[‘mΛηkι] singe nm
Monkey [‘mΛηkι] singe nm
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Monkey – the words in bold are the words you
want to translate
[‘mΛηkι] this tells you how to pronounce the word
in bold type.
singe – this is the French noun which means
“monkey”
n – this is telling you that the word is a noun.
m – This tells you that “singe” is a masculine
noun.
Monkey [‘mΛηkι] n singe m
 How
do you say in French:
 A monkey
 The monkey
 A shirt
 The shirt
 A head
 The head
But I want two!
 The
majority of the time, you simply have
to add an –s to the end of a noun to make
it plural in French. There are, however,
some exceptions.
 Look
up “bateau”
bateau, pl ~x [bato] nm boat
 We know
 We know
 ~x ?
what boat is.
what [bato] is
 The
~ means ‘put the word you looked
up here’.
 the x is what you have to add to make
the word plural.
 So boats
 bateaux
=
Find the French for:
 birds
 animals
 cakes
 fires
 jewels
The essentials
1.Use your common sense – if a word ‘feels’ wrong, it possibly is. If in
doubt, look the word up in the opposite section of the dictionary.
2.Read carefully the information from the dictionary about the type of
word it is. (Particularly important if you are looking up a word which
could be used in two ways).
3.If a word has two or more unrelated meanings (e.g. bat – the
animal/the cricket equipment), the dictionary will generally have two
separate entries for it.
4.Always read the examples given under the entry – you may find
something useful.
5.If in doubt about plurals, the German – English section of the
dictionary (front section generally) will give this information so find
your word there.
6.Remember that most of the time, you will not be able to use the
German verb as it is in the dictionary – it will need conjugating
BAD DICTIONARY SKILLS (A French example)
Fred wanted to write in his assessment, “I saw a film”. He found the word
“scie” (which means ‘saw’ – that you use to cut wood), and wrote the
sentence ‘Je scie un film’, which is incorrect. This could have been avoided
by:-Fred remembering that ‘saw’ is a part of the verb ‘to see’, and remembering
that he would need to look up ‘to see’ (voir) and conjugate it into the past
tense (j’ai vu)
- he should have looked carefully at the entry in the dictionary. When he saw
lots of references to wood, he may have realised he was looking at the wrong
word.
Use your dictionary to find the
word for:
 to
help
 help (support)
 match (to light a fire)
 match (football/tennis)
 bat (cricket/rounders)
 to fly
 to book (holiday)