Pain au chocolat vs Chocolatine

French listening practice with transcript and translation

 Depending who you’re talking to, those lovely little pastries filled with chocolate might be called pains au chocolat or chocolatines. This tasty debate has finally been settled once and for all – at least in theory. Find out more in this short, fun video with interactive subtitles (click any word for translation and more).

 Video courtesy of RTL.

Linguistic features added by Lawless French Immersion (Ilini). Supplementary materials for students and teachers (quizzes, puzzles, hand-outs…) are available at LF Immersion: Pain au chocolat ou chocolatine ? Les Français ont enfin choisi.

 Listening comprehension

Expressions

• c’est, ce sont

Vocabulary

• food
• numbers

Grammar

• un sondage qui risque, je pense que – relative pronouns
• le debat lancé, plus adapté – past participles
• les habitants … ont voté, il a fallu – passé composé
• Écoutez – imperative
• ce matin – demonstrative adjective
• Ça ne me parle pas – indefinite demonstrative pronoun
• Ça ne me parle pas – indirect object
• Moi je trouve – stressed pronouns
• assez intrigant, un amendement visant – present participles
• ce que je pense – indefinite relative pronoun
• je suis pas originaire – informal negation
• je m’habitue – pronominal verb
• ça va être – near future
• un amendement qui avait été rejeté – past perfect in the passive voice