Activities for Le reste
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
Term | Meaning | P of S | Cotext |
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à jamais | forever, eternally | à jamais | |
allongé | lying (down), stretched out | adj | allongée |
au moins | at least | au moins | |
bientôt | soon | adv | bientôt |
chasser | go hunting; hunt, shoot; chase; chase away, drive out; get rid of; fire, dismiss | reg verb | chasser |
début | beginning, start | masc noun | début |
ému | moved, touched, stirred, filled with emotion | adj | ému |
expirer | breathe out, exhale; expire, run out; die, perish | reg verb | expire |
gâcher | waste, squander, ruin, spoil | reg verb | gâché |
oublier | to forget | reg verb | oublier |
pauvre | poor; unfortunate, unlucky; shabby, poor quality | adj | pauvre |
rendre (qqn/qch + adj) | to make (s.o./sth + adj) | reg verb | me le rend |
reste | rest, remainder | masc noun | reste |
s’en sortir | to cope, get by, get through | irreg verb | t’en sortir |
s’éteindre | to go out, die, turn off | irreg verb | éteint |
Pronouns
The following charts show these pronouns.
Direct object pronouns
Singular | Plural | |
1st person | me (m’) – me | nous – us |
2nd person | te (t’) – you | vous – you |
3rd person | le (l’) – him, it la (l’) – her, it | les – them |
Indirect object pronouns
Singular | Plural | |
1st person | me (m’) – me | nous – us |
2nd person | te (t’) – you | vous – you |
3rd person | lui – him, her | leur – them |
Reflexive pronouns
Singular | Plural | |
1st person | me (m’) – myself | nous – ourselves |
2nd person | te (t’) – yourself | vous – yourself / yourselves |
3rd person | se (s’) – himself, herself | se (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