Et demain ?

French listening practice with transcript and grammar notes

 More than 300 French celebrities (artists, athletes, journalists), confined alone at home but together in spirit, sang a beautiful song in appreciation of hospital workers making another tomorrow possible for the rest of us. Video with interactive subtitles (click any word for translation and more).

 Video courtesy of Et Demain Le Collectif.

Linguistic features added by Lawless French Immersion (Ilini). Supplementary materials for students and teachers (quizzes, puzzles, hand-outs…) are available at LF Immersion: “And Tomorrow?” French celebrities sing for hospitals.

 Listening comprehension

Expressions

• c’est
• est-ce que
• il y a
• je t’aime
• que dalle

Grammar

• Il a fallu – passé composé
• Il a fallu en arriver – adverbial pronoun en
• arriver, prendre, mener – infinitives
• pour nous rassembler – reflexive verb in the infinitive
• Ce combat, Ces héros – demonstrative adjectives
• le monde entier qui doit – relative pronoun
• doit le mener, pour les remercier, venez nous aider – direct objects
• il n’y a pas de couleur ni de religion – negative conjunction
• être confiné – passive voice in the infinitive
• leur vie, notre santé – possessive adjectives
• qui criaient – imperfect
• venez nous aider – imperative
• on fera – indefinite subject pronoun
• on fera, On recommencera – future
• comme ça – indefinite demonstrative pronoun
• ce sera nous – stressed pronoun
• S’aimer, s’embrasser – reciprocal verbs in the infinitive
• on se parle, on s’appelle – reciprocal verbs
• qu’on se dise – reciprocal verb in the subjunctive
• est-ce que t’as – informal contraction

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