French listening practice with transcript and grammar notes
On Monday, 16 March 2020, French president Emmanuel Macron announced that the entire country would go into lockdown the next day. Watch his historic address in this video with interactive subtitles (click any word for translation and more).
Video courtesy of Emmanuel Macron.
Linguistic features added by Lawless French Immersion (Ilini). Supplementary materials for students and teachers (quizzes, puzzles, hand-outs…) are available at LF Immersion: “Nous sommes en guerre” – Macron met la France en confinement.
Listening comprehension
Expressions
Vocabulary
Grammar
- chacun – indefinite pronoun
- avec qui, Cela signifie que – relative pronouns
- chaque jour – indefinite adjective
- Les scientifiques le disent – direct object
- après avoir consulté – past imperative
- j’ai décidé – passé composé
- nos déplacements, ses amis – possessive adjectives
- nos déplacements seront … réduits, les regroupements … ne seront plus permises – passive voice in the future
- Cela – indefinite demonstrative pronoun
- Se promener, se soigner – pronominal verbs in the infinitive
- Se promener … ne sera plus – future
- ces contacts, ce sens – demonstrative adjectives
- en mettant, en restant – gerunds
- en ne s’embrassant pas – gerund of pronominal verb
- occupez-vous, Hissons-nous – pronominal verbs in the imperative
- Donnez, prenez – imperative
- je vous demande – indirect object
- les circonstances nous y obligent – adverbial pronoun y
- nous ne luttons ni contre une armée, ni contre une autre nation – negative conjunction
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