Activities for La recette

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Practice some of the vocabulary from this song and its disjunctive pronouns 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

While there are only two disjunctive pronouns that appear in this song, they appear in several different contexts and demonstrate several of the various usages. Information on these pronouns can be found below.

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

Disjunctive Pronoun Flashcards – Practice the disjunctive pronouns in this song with our sets of French to English and English to French flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.

Disjunctive Pronoun Games – Practice the disjunctive pronouns in this song using our memory and matching games.

Disjunctive Pronoun Exercises – Practice the disjunctive pronouns in this song using our drag and drop, fill in, and highlighting exercises.

Resources

Vocabulary List

TermMeaningP of SContext
autouraround, all aroundadvautour
crierscream, yell, shout, cry outreg verbcrie
douterto doubtreg verbdoutes
fêteparty, festival, celebrationfem nounfête
oublierto forgetreg verboublier
parlerto speakreg verbparles
partirto leaveirreg verbpartir
peurfearfem nounpeurs
poserto put, place, put/set down; install, put up/inreg verbposons
pourtantyet, howeveradvpourtant
recetterecipe; formula; revenue, income; takingsfem nounrecette
sourddeaf, hard of hearing; dull, muffled; faint, muted, gnawingadjsourd
tant queas long as, for as long as, whileadvtant que
têteheadfem nountête
valablevalid; usable; acceptable; useful, valuableadjvalables

Disjunctive Pronouns

Disjunctive pronouns, also called stressed pronouns or emphatic pronouns, are used to add emphasis. Disjunctive pronouns can only refer to people, and can be used for either the subject or the object. They must agree with the subject or object in both number and gender. Following are the French disjunctive pronouns:

SingularPlural
1st personmoi – menous – us
2nd persontoi – youvous – you
3rd personlui – himeux – them (masc)
elle – herelles – them (fem)
soi – oneself

Uses of the Disjunctive Pronouns

While there are numerous uses of the French disjunctive pronouns, following are the uses that appear in this song:

To emphasize the subject after c’est and ce sont:

La recette, c’est toi et moi
C’est toi et moi

To emphasize the subject by repeating the subject pronoun:

Moi, j’peux pas t’oublier

To act as the subject with an emphatic term like aussinon plusseul, or surtout:

Juste toi et moi

In place of direct object, indirect object, and reflexive pronouns in certain imperative constructions:

Laisse-moi le changer
Donne-moi des raisons valables
Et maintenant, dis-moi pourquoi toutes ces peurs

After que in the phrase ne … que:

Dans ma tête, (il n’)y a qu’toi et moi

After a preposition:

À la fête, je n’pense qu’à toi

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