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French Vocabulary

The Natural World: Animals, Wildlife & Biomes

Classification of domestic fauna, common global wildlife, marine life, and major landscapes.

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Lesson Summary

Classification of domestic fauna, common global wildlife, marine life, and major landscapes.

Vocabulary

Les animaux et la nature

This lesson presents the names of common animals and natural environments. The vocabulary can be combined with the adjectives and comparatives studied in colours and basic descriptive adjectives and the comparative framework.

Les animaux domestiques (Domestic animals)

French	English
le chien	dog
le chat	cat
l’oiseau (m)	bird
le poisson rouge	goldfish
le lapin	rabbit
le cheval	horse

Les animaux sauvages (Wild animals)

French	English
le lion	lion
le tigre	tiger
l’éléphant (m)	elephant
le singe	monkey
l’ours (m)	bear
le loup	wolf
le serpent	snake

Les animaux marins (Marine animals)

French	English
le dauphin	dolphin
la baleine	whale
le requin	shark
la tortue de mer	sea turtle
le crabe	crab

Les paysages et biomes (Landscapes and biomes)

French	English
la forêt	forest
la montagne	mountain
la plage	beach
la mer	sea
l’océan (m)	ocean
le désert	desert
la rivière	river
le lac	lake
l’île (f)	island
la campagne	countryside

Décrire les animaux

Animals and landscapes can be described with adjectives and comparatives. For example:
- Un éléphant est plus grand qu’un cheval.
- Dans cette forêt, il y a des cerfs et des oiseaux.

Partitive articles and the expression il y a are used to indicate the presence of species in an ecosystem. For the comparative structure, see the comparative framework.

Examples

J'ai un chien et un chat. Mon chien est plus grand que mon chat.
Comparative with plus grand que using the domestic animals le chien and le chat.
En Afrique, on peut voir des lions, des éléphants et des girafes.
Wild animals with the indefinite article plural des.

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