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 Exercises

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

There are a handful of verbs in the future tense in this song. Since it doesn’t show up in songs super often I thought we’d use them, even though they are all in the second person singular form. 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
avoir du mal à (faire)	to have difficulty doing, have trouble doing, find it hard to do		du mal à
bras	arm	masc noun	bras
broyer du noir	to mope, brood, be depressed, be down in the dumps		broyé du noir
contre	against	prep	contre
dévorer	to devour, eat up; consume, eat away at	reg verb	dévore
faute	error, mistake; fault, blame	fem noun	faute
foi	faith, belief	fem noun	foi
goûter	to taste, try, sample	reg verb	goûter
grandir	get bigger, get taller; grow; grow up	reg verb	grandiras
mot	word	masc noun	mots
penser	to think, believe	reg verb	penses
pire	(the) worst	masc noun	pire
sauf	except	prep	sauf
se lasser (de)	get tired of		te lasseras
se mettre dans tous ses états	to get worked up, get into a state, be overcome my a strong emotion (anger, excitement, etc)		me mettre dans tous mes états

Future Tense

Regular Verbs

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

Irregular Verbs

There are some verbs that do not use the infinitive as the verb stem. The only such verb that we see in this song is aller, which uses the stem ir-. The full conjugation of aller is found below.

Conjugations

s’en aller: to go away, leave

	Singular	Plural
First person	je m’en irai	nous nous en irons
Second person	tu t’en iras	vous vous en irez
Third person	il/elle/on s’en ira	ils/elles s’en iront

dire: to say, to tell

	Singular	Plural
First person	je dirai	nous dirons
Second person	tu diras	vous direz
Third person	il/elle/on dira	ils/elles diront

se lasser: get tired of

	Singular	Plural
First person	je me lasserai	nous nous lasserons
Second person	tu te lasseras	vous vous lasserez
Third person	il/elle/on se lassera	ils/elles se lasseront

grandir: get bigger, get taller; grow; grow up

	Singular	Plural
First person	je grandirai	nous grandirons
Second person	tu grandiras	vous grandirez
Third person	il/elle/on grandira	ils/elles grandiront