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

This song didn’t provide much grammatically to practice, however, there are a handful of irregular verbs in the present tense, so we’ll use those. These verbs are éteindre, connaître, avoir, être and pouvoir. The conjugations for these verbs can be found below.

Note that two of the instances of the verb avoir are part of idiomatic expressions. These expressions are explained below.

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

Irregular Verb Flashcards – Practice the irregular verb occurrences in this song with our sets of French to English and English to French flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.

Irregular Verb Games – Practice the irregular verbs in this song using our memory and matching games.

Irregular Verb Exercises – Practice the irregular verbs in this song using our drag and drop, fill in, and highlighting exercises.

Resources

Vocabulary List

Term	Meaning	P of S	Context
avoir besoin	to need		n’a pas besoin
baiser	kiss	masc noun	baisers
cadeau	gift, present	masc noun	cadeaux
chanson	song	fem noun	chansons
chanter	to sing	verb	chanter
cheminée	fireplace, hearth; chimney	fem noun	cheminées
connaître	to know, be acquainted with	verb	connaît
éteindre	extinguish, put out; turn off, switch off	verb	éteint
manguier	mango tree	masc noun	manguiers
neige	snow	fem noun	neige
Noël	Christmas	masc noun	Noël
Père Noël	Santa	masc noun	Père Noël
sapin	fir tree, pine tree; pine (wood)	masc noun	sapins
soulier	shoe	masc noun	souliers
traîneau	sled, sleigh	masc noun	traîneau

Verb Conjugations

éteindre = extinguish, put out; turn off, switch off

	Singular	Plural
First person	j’éteins	nous éteignons
Second person	tu éteins	vous éteignez
Third person	il/elle/on éteint	ils/elles éteignent

connaître = to know, be familiar with

	Singular	Plural
First person	je connais	nous connaissons
Second person	tu connais	vous connaissez
Third person	il/elle/on connaît	ils/elles connaissent

avoir = to have

	Singular	Plural
First person	j’ai	nous avons
Second person	tu as	vous avez
Third person	il/elle/on a	ils/elles ont

être = to be

	Singular	Plural
First person	je suis	nous sommes
Second person	tu es	vous êtes
Third person	il/elle/on est	ils/elles sont

pouvoir = to be able to

	Singular	Plural
First person	je peux	nous pouvons
Second person	tu peux	vous pouvez
Third person	il/elle/on peut	ils/elles peuvent

Expressions with ‘avoir’

The following expression using the verb ‘avoir’ appear in the song:

• ‘avoir besoin de’ – Meaning ‘to need’, this translates literally as ‘to have need of’.
• ‘il y a’ – Meaning ‘there is’ or ‘there are’, this would translate literally as ‘it has there’. It appears in this song shortened to ‘y’a’.