French listening practice with transcript and translation
Fun for your French class! This video combines music with current events (French President Emmanuel Macron talking to gilets jaunes) and includes interactive subtitles (click any word for translation and more).
Video courtesy of Khaled Freak.
Linguistic features added by Lawless French Immersion (Ilini). Supplementary materials for students and teachers (quizzes, puzzles, hand-outs…) are available at LF Immersion: ‘Gilets Jaunes’ Dance Song.
Vocabulary
Grammar
- Ne vous habituez pas, N’acceptons pas – negation
- Ne vous habituez pas – pronominal verb in the imperative
- N’acceptons pas, Réglons les crises – imperative
- Toutes ces formes, chaque jour – indefinite adjectives
- ces formes, ces pages – demonstrative adjectives
- ces pages déchirées – past participles
- notre histoire, nos enfants – possessive adjectives
- moi je ne m’y habitue pas – stressed pronouns
- je ne m’y habitue pas, le siècle qui s’ouvre – pronominal verbs
- je ne m’y habitue pas – adverbial pronoun y
- je vous le dis – indirect object
- je vous le dis, le siècle qui s’ouvre nous regarde – direct objects
- le siècle qui s’ouvre – relative pronoun
Open Letter
In response to the ongoing Gilets Jaunes protests, President Emmanuel Macron wrote an open letter to the French people which makes for interesting reading and of course great French practice:
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