French listening practice with transcript and grammar notes
Listening comprehension: See the links at the bottom for lessons related to the grammar and vocabulary used in this video.
Did you know there’s a lot more to France than the roughly hexagonal country in Europe? Learn about les Outre-mer in this cartoon video with interactive subtitles (click any word for translation and more).
Video courtesy of 1 jour, 1 question.
Linguistic features added by Lawless French Immersion (Ilini). Supplementary materials for students and teachers (quizzes, puzzles, hand-outs…) are available at Overseas France Explained.
Listening comprehension
Expressions
Vocabulary
Grammar
- Asking questions
- À quoi ça sert – indefinite demonstrative pronoun
- C’est qui lui; nous, on y répond – stressed pronouns
- des terres situées, la France appelée – past participles
- ces DROM-COM – demonstrative adjective
- la France est divisée, 13 sont situées – passive voice
- on les appelle – indefinite subject pronoun
- on les appelle – direct object
- ce n’est ni une région, ni une collectivité – negative conjunction
- ses terres – possessive adjective
- Tu te poses – pronominal verb
- on y répond – adverbial pronoun y