Activities for Beau-papa
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
Term | Meaning | P of S | Context |
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attendre | to wait (for) | verb | attendais |
averse | shower; downpour; sudden or heavy rainfall | fem noun | averse |
avouer | to confess, admit | verb | avoue |
beau-papa | stepfather; father-in-law | masc noun | beau-papa |
du moment que | as long as | du moment qu’ | |
famille | family | fem noun | familles |
laisser | to leave | verb | laisserai |
s’adapter | get used to, adapt | m’adapter | |
prévoir | to forcast, predict; make sure you have, not forget; plan, organize; foresee, anticipate | verb | prévu |
sang | blood | masc noun | sang |
traverser | to cross; to penetrate, go through; to experience, live through; come to mind; survive, endure | verb | traverse |
vérité | truth | fem noun | vérité |
vie | life | fem noun | vie |
visage | face | masc noun | visage |
voler | to fly; to steal, take | verb | volerai |
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
Singular | Plural | |
First person | –ai | –ons |
Second person | –as | –ez |
Third person | –a | –ont |
The following charts show the conjugations of the future tense verbs that appear in this song.
laisser = to leave
Singular | Plural | |
First person | je laisserai | nous laisserons |
Second person | tu laisseras | vous laisserez |
Third person | il/elle/on laissera | ils/elles laisseront |
aimer = to like, to love
Singular | Plural | |
First person | j’aimerai | nous aimerons |
Second person | tu aimeras | vous aimerez |
Third person | il/elle/on aimera | ils/elles aimeront |
voler = to steal; to fly
Singular | Plural | |
First person | je volerai | nous volerons |
Second person | tu voleras | vous volerez |
Third person | il/elle/on volera | ils/elles voleront |