Activities for Beau-papa

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We’ve chosen some vocabulary and grammatical concepts from this song and provided flashcards, games and exercises for you to learn and practice them.

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Activities

Vocabulary Excercises

While we usually choose 20 words and phrases out of each song, due to this song’s limited lyrics we have only chosen 15 terms 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 handful of verbs in the future tense in this song. Although there are more instances of the passé composé, we have chosen the future tense verbs for practice as they are less often seen, and are repeated throughout the song. Conjugations of these verbs can be found below.

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

Future Tense Flashcards – Practice the future tense occurrences in this song with our sets of French to English and English to French flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.

Future Tense Games – Practice the future tense verbs in this song using our memory and matching games.

Future Tense Exercises – Practice the future tense verbs in this song using our drag and drop, fill in, and highlighting exercises.

Resources

Vocabulary List

TermMeaningP of SContext
attendreto wait (for)verbattendais
averseshower; downpour; sudden or heavy rainfallfem nounaverse
avouerto confess, admitverbavoue
beau-papastepfather; father-in-lawmasc nounbeau-papa
du moment queas long asdu moment qu’
famillefamilyfem nounfamilles
laisserto leaveverblaisserai
s’adapterget used to, adaptm’adapter
prévoirto forcast, predict; make sure you have, not forget; plan, organize; foresee, anticipateverbprévu
sangbloodmasc nounsang
traverserto cross; to penetrate, go through; to experience, live through; come to mind; survive, endureverbtraverse
véritétruthfem nounvérité
vielifefem nounvie
visagefacemasc nounvisage
volerto fly; to steal, takeverbvolerai

Future Tense

The future tense of regular verbs is achieved by adding a single set of endings (below) to the following stems:

  • Regular -er and -ir verbs use the infinitive
  • Regular -re verbs remove the final -e from the infinitive before adding the future endings
SingularPlural
First personaions
Second personasez
Third personaont

The following charts show the conjugations of the future tense verbs that appear in this song.

laisser = to leave

SingularPlural
First personje laisserainous laisserons
Second persontu laisserasvous laisserez
Third personil/elle/on laisserails/elles laisseront

aimer = to like, to love

SingularPlural
First personj’aimerainous aimerons
Second persontu aimerasvous aimerez
Third personil/elle/on aimerails/elles aimeront

voler = to steal; to fly

SingularPlural
First personje volerainous volerons
Second persontu volerasvous volerez
Third personil/elle/on volerails/elles voleront