Date: 01/08/2023

Title: La description physique (2)

Objectif:- To describe other people’s appearance in the
3rd person
 Verbs used? Meaning in English?
“He has the hair brown.”
“I have the eyes blue.”

les cheveux les yeux

blonds
Je n’ai pas de cheveux
verts
roux Je suis chauve

châtain marron
/bruns

blancs
J’ai – I have
bleus
Il a – He has
noirs Elle a – She has
gris

gris
Je porte… J’ai…

des taches de
des tresses rousseur
un voile africaines

une barbe
des lunettes
Elle a les cheveux bruns et les yeux bleus
Il a les cheveux roux et les yeux verts
Elle a les cheveux blancs et les yeux verts
Il a les cheveux noirs et les yeux noirs
/marron
Elle a les cheveux bleus et les yeux noirs
DO NOT DO THIS!
Spell “il” like “ill”
Il a grand
Il a j’ai les cheveux…
J’ai blonds les cheveux (wrong word order)
J’ai bleus yeux (wrong word order, missing les)
Il a les cheveux noir (should be noirs)
 Write a sentence about each celebrity using the
help sheet on display

Now write a sentence or two to describe yourself:

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Oops! Title: La description physique

One of our colleagues has mistakenly described this person
as a man, when she is a woman! Can you copy and correct
the paragraph so it accurately describes a woman?
You will need to change/amend 6 words.

Il s’appelle Leslie. Il a 30
ans. Il est assez petit et
très gros. Il a les cheveux
bruns et les yeux noisette.

Extension: Can you think of any other detail you can add to describe the picture, in French?
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Avec un(e) partenaire!

Une personne choisit une image (A-J). L’autre pose

des questions pour découvrir la bonne lettre.

Elle a les cheveux blonds / roux / châtain clair / bruns / noirs?

Elle a des franges?
Elle a le visage rond / allongé / carré / ovale?
Elle porte des lunettes / des boucles d’oreilles?

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Tu arrives à l’aéroport. Regarde l’extrait de la lettre.

Est-ce que tu reconnais ta correspondante?

Réponse: C

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Imagine que le correspondant, c’est toi! Choisis une image

(A-F) et écris une description de toi. Ton / ta partenaire doit
lire ce que tu as écrit et doit choisir la bonne lettre.

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To describe height or build we use:
Je suis (I am)
Il est (He is)
Elle est (She is)

1. I am short
2. I am thin
3. He is tall
4. She is fat
5. He is very fat.

To describe hair or eyes we use:

J’ai (I have) “He has the hair brown.”
Il a (He has) “I have the eyes blue.”
Elle a (She has)

1. I have brown hair.

2. She has white hair.
3. He has green eyes.
4. I have blond hair and blue eyes.
5. I have green hair and she has grey eyes.
 C’est un garçon / c’est une fille

Il a / Elle a les cheveux blonds / bruns / noirs / roux

Il a / Elle a
les cheveux frisés / raides / des traisses africaines

Il a / Elle a les cheveux longs / courts / mi-longs

Il est / Elle est

Il a / Elle a les yeux bleus / gris / marron / verts petit(e) / de taille moyenne / grand(e)

Extra: Il / Elle porte J’ai

foncé
un voile des lunettes une barbe une moustache
clair

et
aussi
un peu
très
assez
Traduis End

1. She has brown hair.

2. He has curly hair.

3. She is average height.

4. He has blue eyes and blond hair.

5. It’s a girl. She is short. She has long, black, straight hair.

6. It’s a boy. He is very tall. He has dark brown eyes and short, curly hair.

7. Beyoncé has long brown hair.

8. Jay Z is a bit fat. He has short, black hair.

Traduis
1. Elle a les cheveux bruns.
2. Il a les cheveux bouclés.
3. Elle est de taille moyenne.
4. Il a les yeux bleus et les cheveux blonds.
5. C’est une fille. Elle est petite. Elle a les cheveux longs, noirs
et raides.
6. C’est un garçon. Il est très grand. Il a les yeux marron foncé
et les cheveux courts et frisés.
7. Beyoncé a les cheveux longs et bruns.
8. Jay Z est un peu gros. Il a les cheveux courts et noirs.
Knowledge
organiser:
Physical
description
 En plus!
Description physique Physical description
Elle est jolie/moche/jeune/vieille. She is pretty/ugly/young/old.

Il/elle porte des lunettes (de soleil)/des He/she wears (sun-)glasses/earrings

boucles d’oreilles.

Elle a le visage rond. She’s got a round face.

Il a les yeux bleu clair/foncé He’s got light/dark blue eyes.

Elle a les cheveux courts/ longs/mi-longs. She has short/long/mid-length hair.

Il a les cheveux (très) He’s got (very) curly/wavy/

frisés/bouclés/raides/lisses. straight/smooth hair.

Il est (à moitié) chauve. He’s (half) bald.

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TIP: Think like a
MesFrenchman.
amis
LO: write sentences to describe Adjectives after
both a male and female friend.
nouns.
Starter:
Pick a sentence difficulty to translate into French (use yesterday’s vocabulary to help)
WRITE OUT ENGLISH AS WELL.

EASY: It’s a boy. He has blue eyes.

MEDIUM: It’s a girl and she is small. She has brown eyes and brown
hair.
DIFFICULT: It’s a boy and he is medium sized. He has blond, curly hair
and green eyes.
EPIC!: It’s quite a tall girl. She has blond hair and very blue eyes but she
does not have straight hair, she has curly hair.
EASY: It’s a boy. He has blue eyes.
C’est un garçon. Il a les yeux bleus.

MEDIUM: It’s a girl and she is small. She has brown eyes and brown
hair.
C’est une fille et elle est petite. Elle a les yeux marron et les cheveux
bruns.

DIFFICULT: It’s a boy and he is medium sized. He has blond, curly hair
and green eyes.
C’est un garçon et il est de taille moyenne. Il a les cheveux blonds, frisés
et les yeux verts.

EPIC!: It’s quite a tall girl. She has blond hair and very blue eyes but she
does not have straight hair, she has curly hair.
C’est une fille assez grande. Elle a les cheveux blonds et les yeux très
bleus mais elle n’a pas les cheveux raides, elle a les cheveux frisés.
Il a/Elle a les cheveux…
Blue eyes Brown eyes Green eyes Brown eyes Brown eyes
 ALL: Pick a name of a male and female friend.
You can make them up.
BRIEFLY draw a face and hair on each character.

As green and orange tasks

Inside the body list but also draw a heart next
As Green tasks but also to one friend and list inside
adjectives that describe
draw a bag next to one what they love.
personality (kind, clever)
friend and write a list of
its contents inside it. Underneath each friend
Outside the body write
write three to four extended
adjectives that describe sentences to describe them.
Underneath each friend
physical features (blond You could include what is in
write three longer
hair, green eyes) their bag and what they like.
sentences to describe
them. Use connectives (and, also)
Underneath each friend
Use connectives (and, and intensifiers (very, quite)
write two simple
also) and intensifiers Use ne…pas to say what they
sentences to describe are not like/what they don’t
(very, quite)
them. have/what they don’t like.
 Mes amis
Mon ami Mon amie
Il s’appelle ________________ Elle s’appelle ________________

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