Activities for Le reste

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Practice some of the vocabulary from this song and its direct object, indirect object, adverbial and reflexive pronouns, including multiple pronoun order using these flashcards, games and exercises.

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Activities

Vocabulary Excercises

We have chosen 15 terms out of this song’s lyrics to form our vocabulary list, which can be found below. You can use the following activities to learn and practice this vocabulary.

Vocabulary Flashcards – Learn the vocabulary from this song with our sets of French to English and English to French flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.

Vocabulary Games – Practice the vocabulary for this song using our memory and matching games and our word search puzzle.

Vocabulary Exercises – Fill in the missing vocabulary with drag and drop and fill in the blanks exercises.

Grammar Exercises

There are a few direct object, indirect object, adverbial, and reflexive pronouns in this song. But more importantly, there are several instances of double pronouns that can be used to practice pronoun order. Charts of these pronouns and information on pronoun order can be found below.

You can use the following activities to learn and practice these pronouns.

Pronoun Flashcards – Practice the pronouns in this song with our sets of French to English and English to French flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.

Pronoun Games – Practice the pronouns in this song using our memory and matching games, or practice pronoun order with our ordering and sequencing excercies.

Pronoun Exercises – Practice the pronouns in this song using our drag and drop, fill in, and highlighting exercises.

Resources

Vocabulary List

TermMeaningP of SCotext
à jamaisforever, eternallyà jamais
allongélying (down), stretched outadjallongée
au moinsat leastau moins
bientôtsoonadvbientôt
chassergo hunting; hunt, shoot; chase; chase away, drive out; get rid of; fire, dismissreg verbchasser
débutbeginning, startmasc noundébut
émumoved, touched, stirred, filled with emotionadjému
expirerbreathe out, exhale; expire, run out; die, perishreg verbexpire
gâcherwaste, squander, ruin, spoilreg verbgâché
oublierto forgetreg verboublier
pauvrepoor; unfortunate, unlucky; shabby, poor qualityadjpauvre
rendre (qqn/qch + adj)to make (s.o./sth + adj)reg verbme le rend
resterest, remaindermasc nounreste
s’en sortirto cope, get by, get throughirreg verbt’en sortir
s’éteindreto go out, die, turn offirreg verbéteint

Pronouns

The following charts show these pronouns.

Direct object pronouns

SingularPlural
1st personme (m’) – menous – us
2nd personte (t’) – youvous – you
3rd personle (l’) – him, it
la (l’) – her, it
les – them

Indirect object pronouns

SingularPlural
1st personme (m’) – menous – us
2nd personte (t’) – youvous – you
3rd personlui – him, herleur – them

Reflexive pronouns

SingularPlural
1st personme (m’) – myselfnous – ourselves
2nd personte (t’) – yourselfvous – yourself / yourselves
3rd personse (s’) – himself, herselfse (s’) – themselves

Adverbial pronouns

y– replaces a place
– replaces the object of the preposition ‘à’
en– replaces a quantity
– replaces the object of the preposition ‘de’

Pronoun Order

When multiple pronouns appear in a phrase, the order will generally be as follows:

me
te
se
nous
vous

le
la
les

lui
leur

y

en