French listening practice with transcript and grammar notes
Fun video in and about French: author and cartoonist Riad Sattouf talks about his favorite expression, least favorite word, and some possibilities for a new word yet to be created. Considering it’s only 2½ minutes long, the grammar in this video is extremely rich and varied (see lessons at the end). The subtitles are interactive – click any word for translation and more.
Video courtesy of Entrée libre.
Linguistic features added by Lawless French Immersion (Ilini). Supplementary materials for students and teachers (quizzes, puzzles, hand-outs…) are available at LF Immersion: Riad Sattouf au service de la langue française.
Expressions
Vocabulary
Grammar
- cet amoureux, cette chanson – demonstrative adjectives
- Sibylle Veyron l’a rencontré – direct object
- Sibylle Veyron l’a rencontré, j’ai appris – passé composé
- Je me sens – pronominal verb
- très honoré – past participle
- d’avoir été choisi – parfect participle in the passive voice
- La langue française n’était pas, que m’envoyait ma grand-mère – imperfect
- ma langue, leurs tréteaux – possessive adjectives
- pour moi – stressed pronoun
- les livres que m’envoyait ma grand-mère … qui me permettaient – relative pronouns
- le français … a toujours été relié – passé composé in the passive voice
- se ressembler – pronominal verb in the infinitive
- je me disais – pronominal verb in the imperfect
- ça – indefinite demonstrative pronoun
- quel est l’intérêt – interrogative adjective
- en se donnant – gerund of pronominal verb
- J[e n]’avais pas compris – informal negation
- J’avais pas compris – past perfect
- je ne crois pas qu’il y ait – subjunctive
- il faudrait – il faut in the conditional
- Ça va bientôt arriver – near future
- il ne faudrait pas qu’on soit démunis – subjunctive in the passive voice
- Viens voir – imperative
- En écoutant – gerund
- je me suis rendu compte – pronominal verb in the passé composé
- le français pouvait être chanté – passive voice of the infinitive
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