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Collins Primary Illustrated French Dictionary
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Collins Primary Illustrated French Dictionary
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Optimised for colour tablets. The images in this e-book are not suitable for black and white e-ink devices.Collins Primary Illustrated French Dictionary is ideal for young learners of French as their first REAL dictionary. It offers detailed coverage of key French and English vocabulary in a highly attractive, colourful and easy-to-use format.Collins Primary Illustrated French Dictionary has been designed specifically to meet the needs of children learning French, particularly in primary school. It has also been written to give support to teachers who may be faced with the challenge of teaching French to young children for the first time.• Core vocabulary is covered in detail with simple examples to illustrate usage and key phrases highlighted.• Colourful topic pages in the middle of the dictionary give additional vocabulary for pupils and teachers.• A clear, colourful layout and carefully selected illustrations make it fun, quick and easy to find what you are looking for.Other titles in the Collins French Dictionary range include the Collins Easy Learning French Dictionary, Collins Gem French School Dictionary and Collins French School Dictionary – providing all the support you need when learning French.

Contents

Cover (#u67ec66d9-619e-5924-be78-f7f3b70c15b4)

Title Page (#u4348bac5-b4dd-5d59-9bca-a3ef9728bdb6)

Introduction (#ua81f1ea8-edf1-5b1f-a021-cd31eafb64f7)

Using the dictionary (#u57805853-6752-54ec-9588-f996040dafbe)

French –English (#u6e1a7b5f-3c85-5846-9609-169fe7cefd02)

Language plus (#uc956a941-70d6-559b-9d67-9a3019d7a119)

Animals (#ulink_49fae204-44ee-5ef2-8e05-57599992c96c)

The body (#ulink_05a9c81f-842b-5a74-86a9-ca5d1972e83a)

Clothes (#ulink_393afc97-0ef3-5ee7-acde-0102d3ea11f0)

Colours (#ulink_6767b8dd-6cbd-56e8-8396-b5002d99937c)

Family (#ulink_a52d3d5f-880b-5c4d-8276-557717954e4d)

Days and dates (#ulink_f13dd589-4474-5063-a0df-d3a99f780982)

The weather (#ulink_85d13286-77ec-5a73-a5c2-71250593c8f2)

Places (#ulink_d3537fa9-282f-580a-993d-579622b98904)

Food (#ulink_451ce8c8-25be-5493-8e2f-03c32d706998)

Fruit and vegetables (#ulink_24d8bb4e-d7ee-5818-9188-6d340ca7388b)

Drinks (#ulink_93f6cbe4-7b01-5df9-a753-3f4d0b78b5df)

Furniture (#ulink_28271837-1e42-53ca-9e42-e3db0cadeefd)

Instruments (#ulink_02dfc4c3-734a-5102-a52d-0812b5bff122)

Jobs (#ulink_506eb05e-3d9b-5b54-aed4-cfd26a7e07d1)

Sports (#ulink_8ccc6862-fde4-5c5f-b02b-cb80d8be5ffb)

At school (#ulink_ad52eb01-17ac-5e42-b047-ae06e530b5fa)

Numbers and time (#ulink_dd10f77e-0d84-51ca-8a83-835efa068fb6)

French verbs (#ulink_5d3dbabd-9719-556f-a082-49a126e2f817)

Illustrations

English –French (#u60146db6-acb1-5421-9694-ea33291af7c0)

Copyright (#uf9b58c65-176d-5bea-9948-299ad8a07caf)

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Introduction (#ulink_f464ffb1-6ae7-524c-8b9d-ccfdf3054605)

The Collins Primary Illustrated French Dictionary is a bilingual dictionary aimed at primary school children who are starting to learn French.

Access to a dictionary which is pitched at an appropriate level is a vital part of the language-learning process. The content of this dictionary has been carefully selected to reflect current trends in primary education and help children with acquiring basic language-learning skills.

The key aims of the Collins Primary Illustrated French Dictionary are:

• to develop both language skills in French and language learning skills in general

• to cover the four key areas of language attainment: listening, speaking, reading and writing

• to reinforce key aspects of the language by the use of notes and feature boxes throughout the entries

• to extend cultural awareness by providing information about France, especially where traditions differ from those in Britain

The Collins Primary Illustrated French Dictionary supports language learning in a number of specific ways:

• it develops children’s knowledge of how language works by encouraging them to understand, analyse and use simple aspects of grammar

• it develops children’s individual learning skills by using a wide range of notes that explain things in a simple but interesting way

• it enables children to make comparisons between French and English by encouraging them to explore the similarities and differences between the two languages and cultures

• it introduces young learners to all the basic elements of a bilingual dictionary and provides detailed instructions on how to get the most out of using the dictionary

The Collins Primary Illustrated French Dictionary is presented in an easy-to-use format which is intended to appeal to children of primary school age. It provides lots of simple, relevant examples and tips on how to remember words, and how to avoid some of the pitfalls of translation. It also features key phrases, illustrations and information about life in France, making it an invaluable and exciting resource.

Using the dictionary (#ulink_41d6c5e5-5def-50c6-a929-62f83934c09d)

Step one:

Pick the right side

Remember there are two halves to the dictionary. If you want to know what a French word means, look in the French-English half. It comes first.

If you want to translate an English word into French, look in the second half, which is English-French. It comes after the supplement in the middle of the dictionary.

1 Which of these words would you look up in the French-English half? demain brother horse bonbon

2 Look at page 51 of the dictionary. Is this the French side or the English side? How can you tell?

3 Look at page 411 of the dictionary. What is shown at the top of the page, above the row of dots?

4 Is fish the first or the last word on page 411?

Remember that you do not read across the whole page in a dictionary – you have to read down the columns.

5 Which word comes immediately after fireworks on page 411?

Step two:

Find the right word

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Words are in alphabetical order in the dictionary – like names in the phone book, and in a school register. The alphabet is shown down the edge of each page of the dictionary. You can sort words into alphabetical order by looking at the first letter of each word.

6 Can you put these names in alphabetical order? Chantal, Luc, Sophie, Pierre, Jean-Marie, Hélène When two words start with the same letter, look at their second letters.

7 In alphabetical order which comes first – Hermione or Harry? This is the order of the days of the week on a calendar: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

8 Which day comes first in a dictionary? Which comes last?

9Thursday comes before Tuesday in a dictionary. Why?

10 Put the seven days of the week into alphabetical order. If the first letters are the same, and the second letters are the same, look at the third letters.

11June, July, August: which comes last in the dictionary?

Step three:

Pick the right translation

The translations are easy to spot in this dictionary because they are in red on the French-English side and blue on the English-French side.

Some French words can be masculine or feminine, or even plural. In the dictionary MASC, FEM, and PL are the abbreviations used for these. The dictionary also shows you the French word for ‘the’ (this can be le, la, l’ or les).

doll NOUN

la poupéefem

When you look up doll you can see that the word for doll in French is poupée.

You can tell that the French word for doll is feminine because it is given with la and the dictionary says that it is fem (feminine).

So the doll is la poupée and a doll would be une poupée.

penfriend NOUN

le correspondantmasc

la correspondantefem

I’m Emma, your English penfriend. Je suis Emma, ta correspondante anglaise.

Here there are two translations, one masculine, one feminine. If your penfriend is a boy, you need the French word which is masculine (masc) – le correspondant. If your penfriend is a girl, you need the French word which is feminine (fem) – la correspondante.

12 If you were talking about your penfriend, which would go in the gap, correspondant or correspondante?

J’ai un __________. Il s’appelle Hugo.

animal NOUN

l’ animalmasc (pl les animaux)

Here there are two translations. The second one is plural (PL).

13 If you want to say that you love animals, which translation would go in the gap?

J’adore les __________.

Sometimes there is more than one translation, and each one has a number. If there is more than one translation, don’t just pick the first one! Check to see which is the right one.

ball NOUN

1 la ballefem (for tennis, golf, cricket)Hit the ball! Frappe la balle!

2 le ballonmasc (for football, rugby)Pass the ball! Passe le ballon!

14 Which is the French word for a ball that you kick – une balle or un ballon? Look for the clue.

Step four:

Parts of speech

Sometimes, to pick the right translation, you need to know the part of speech of a word, for example whether a word is a noun, an adjective, an adverb or a verb. Other parts of speech are conjunction, exclamation, number, preposition and pronoun.

NOUNS