Activities for Un homme

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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

We have chosen 20 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

This song really doesn’t give much grammatically to be practiced, however there are a handful of irregular present tense verbs so we’ll use those. Full conjugations of these irregular verbs can be found below. You can use the following activities to learn and practice these verbs.

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

Resources

Vocabulary List

TermMeaningP of SContext
TermMeaningP of SContext
brillershine, sparkle, twinkle, gleamverbbrille
classeclassyadjclasse
cleanclean, drug-freeadjclean
daronfathermasc noundaron
foliemadness, insanity, lunacy, folly, chaos; extravagancefem nounfolie
librefree, available; independent; at liberty; openadjlibre
ne … plusnot anymore, no longerplus
perdrelose, misplace; be deprived of; waste, squanderverbperds
pireworstmasc nounpire
poingfistmasc nounpoings
potebuddy, matemasc and fem nounpote
ralentirto slow, slow downverbralentis
repèrelandmark, point of reference, markermasc nounrepère
rire aux éclatsto roar with laughterris aux éclats
saledirtyadjsale
se vengerto get revenge for, take one’s revengeverbme venge
sensiblesensitive, delicateadjsensible
spleenmelancholymasc nounspleen
suivreto follow; be behind; come after; accompany; deal with; obey, ahere to; take (course); understand, comprehend; track; watchverbsuis
tranquillequiet, peaceful, calm, relaxedadjtranquille

Irregular Verb Conjugations

The following charts show the full conjugations of the present tense of the irregular verbs found in this song. We have chosen to leave out conjugations of the verb ‘être’ from the exercises.

suivre = to follow

SingularPlural
First personje suisnous suivons
Second persontu suisvous suivez
Third personil/elle/on suitils/elles suivent

vivre = to live

SingularPlural
First personje visnous vivons
Second persontu visvous vivez
Third personil/elle/on vitils/elles vivent

vouloir = to want

SingularPlural
First personje veuxnous voulons
Second persontu veuxvous voulez
Third personil/elle/on veutils/elles veulent

rire = to laugh

SingularPlural
First personje risnous rions
Second persontu risvous riez
Third personil/elle/on ritils/elles rient

courir = to run; go around, circulate; rush, hurry

SingularPlural
First personje coursnous courons
Second persontu coursvous courez
Third personil/elle/on courtils/elles courent

savoir = to know

SingularPlural
First personje saisnous savons
Second persontu saisvous savez
Third personil/elle/on saitils/elles savent

dire = to say, tell

SingularPlural
First personje disnous disons
Second persontu disvous dites
Third personil/elle/on ditils/elles disent

voir = to see, watch

SingularPlural
First personje voisnous voyons
Second persontu voisvous voyez
Third personil/elle/on voitils/elles voient

avoir = to have

SingularPlural
First personje ainous avons
Second persontu asvous avez
Third personil/elle/on ails/elles ont