A song about Mathurin鈥檚 farm
This song is about a farmer called 'Mathurin' and the different animals that he keeps on his farm 鈥 Check your connection, refresh the page and try again..
You can practise the words for animals in French with this fun song.
Download the lyric sheet here.
Did you know?
Did you know that animal sounds in French are different to animal sounds in English?
For example, in English pigs make an 'oink, oink' sound, but in French they say Check your connection, refresh the page and try again..
Did the song sound familiar? Watch the video again and see how many animals and sounds you can spot.
Here are the words for different animals and birds you might find on a farm:
French | English |
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Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. | a donkey |
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. | a duck |
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. | a cat |
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. | a horse |
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. | a goat |
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. | a dog |
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. | a pig |
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. | a sheep |
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. | a chicken |
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. | a cow |
'There is/there are' in French
Which animals are on the farm?
To say 'there is' or 'there are' in French, you say Check your connection, refresh the page and try again..
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. 鈥 There is/there are
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. 鈥 There is a pig
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. 鈥 There are two pigs
'How many are there?' in French
To ask 'how many' in French, you say Combien de 鈥 y a-t-il ?
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. 鈥 How many pigs are there?
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. 鈥 There are three pigs
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. 鈥 There are hundreds of pigs
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. comes from the word Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. in French, which means 100.
Possession
Possession means when something belongs to someone.
To show that something belongs to someone in English, we use an apostrophe followed by s, so we say Old MacDonal诲鈥檚 farm.
To show that something belongs to someone in French, we use the word de after the noun.
French | English |
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Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. | Mathurin鈥檚 farm |
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. | Mathurin鈥檚 cow |
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. | Mathurin鈥檚 sheep |
So you would say:
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. 鈥 Michael鈥檚 dog
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. 鈥 Sarah鈥檚 cat
If someone鈥檚 name begins with a vowel 鈥 a, e, i, o, u 鈥 or the letter h, you would say 诲鈥 instead of de
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. 鈥 Andr茅's farm
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. 鈥 Alec鈥檚 dog
Check your connection, refresh the page and try again. 鈥 Hugo鈥檚 cat
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