French listening practice with transcript and grammar notes
Protests over the police killing of George Floyd in the US have spread all over the world, including Paris, reigniting anger over the killing of Adama Traoré in 2016 as well as police violence in general. This video includes interactive subtitles (click any word for translation and more).
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Expression
Vocabulary
Grammar
- Ils sont venus, Ils ont subi – passé composé
- se rassembler, se lever – pronominal verbs in the infinitive
- des milliers se sont réunies- pronominal verb in the passé composé
- l’affaire qui secoue – relative pronoun
- Dévoilée, rendue – past participles
- ce mardi, cette affaire – demonstrative adjectives
- On nous tue – direct object
- ça fait – indefinite demonstrative pronoun
- ce que je veux dire – indefinite relative pronoun
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