Activities for Bonne année
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
While this song didn’t provide much grammatically to practice, it did provide a handful of verbs in the passé composé, as well as one in the imparfait. Conjugations of these past tense verbs can be found below.
You can use the following activities to learn and practice these verbs.
Past Tense Flashcards – Practice the past tense occurrences in this song with our sets of French to English and English to French flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.
Past Tense Games – Practice the past tense verbs in this song using our memory and matching games.
Past Tense Exercises – Practice the past 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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de plus en plus | more and more, increasingly | de plus en plus | |
débuter | to start, begin | verb | débute |
dernier | last | adj | dernière |
fécond | fertile; productive | adj | féconde |
histoire | story; history | fem noun | histoire |
jurer | swear, vow; curse, cuss; clash | verb | jure |
ne … plus | not anymore, no longer | ne plus | |
pareil | the same, identical; such, like that | adj | pareil |
pour l’essentiel | above all, mainly, mostly | pour l’essentiel | |
résolution | resolution | fem noun | Résolutions |
santé | health | fem noun | santé |
tenir | hold; take hold of, grip, grasp; restrain; manage, run; maintain, keep | verb | tiendra |
vérifier | verify, confirm, prove, check, test | verb | vérifier |
verre | glass; drink | masc noun | verre |
zapper | flit from one thing to another; forget all about; channel-surf | verb | zappé |
Verb Conjugations
The following chart shows the conjugations of the verbs in this song that appear in the two French past tenses, the passé composé an the imparfait.
Passé Composé
voir = to see, watch
Singular | Plural | |
First person | j’ai vu | nous avons vu |
Second person | tu as vu | vous avez vu |
Third person | il/elle/on a vu | ils/elles ont vu |
zapper = flit from one thing to another; forget all about; channel-surf
Singular | Plural | |
First person | j’ai zappé | nous avons zappé |
Second person | tu as zappé | vous avez zappé |
Third person | il/elle/on a zappé | ils/elles ont zappé |
triompher = to triumph, prevail
Singular | Plural | |
First person | j’ai triomphé | nous avons triomphé |
Second person | tu as triomphé | vous avez triomphé |
Third person | il/elle/on a triomphé | ils/elles ont triomphé |
Imparfait
être = to be
Singular | Plural | |
First person | j’étais | nous étions |
Second person | tu étais | vous étiez |
Third person | il/elle/on était | ils/elles étaient |