Activities for Maintenant

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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 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 several irregular present tense verbs in this song. 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
abrishelter, refuge, protection, safe havenmasc nounabri
apprendreto learn (about), hear (about), find out aboutverbappris
avoir faimto be hungryavoir faim
avoir raisonto be rightavoir raison
battementbeating, beat; flutter, batmasc nounbattements
crierscream, yell, shout, cry outverbcrie
douxsoft; gentle; sweetadjdoux
droitright; lawmasc noundroit
foucrazy, insane; absurd, ridiculous, unrealistic, preposterousadjfous
genspeoplemasc noun – pl onlygens
hieryesterdayadvhier
mainhandfem nounmain
mêmesame, same thingmasc or fem nounmême
métropolemetropolis, city; home country, homelandfem nounmétropoles
se laisser fairelet oneself be pushed arounds’laisser faire
tant queas long as, for as long as, whiletant que
tenir le coupto cope, endure, withstand, stick it out, weather the stormtient le coup
toucherto touch, feel; to reach; move, affect deeplyverbtoucher
toujoursalwaysadvtoujours
voisinneighbormasc nounvoisins

Irregular Verb Conjugations

The following charts show the full conjugations of the present tense of the irregular verbs found in this song.

faire = to do, make

SingularPlural
First personje faisnous faisons
Second persontu faisvous faites
Third personil/elle/on faitils/elles font

vouloir = to want

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

connaître = to know, be familiar with

SingularPlural
First personje connaisnous connaissons
Second persontu connaisvous connaissez
Third personil/elle/on connaîtils/elles connaissent

savoir = to know

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

être = to be

SingularPlural
First personje suisnous sommes
Second persontu esvous êtes
Third personil/elle/on estils/elles sont


tenir = to hold, hold onto; to manage; to control; to stand; continue, last

SingularPlural
First personje tiensnous tenons
Second persontu tiensvous tenez
Third personil/elle/on tientils/elles tiennent

avoir = to have

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

aller = to go

SingularPlural
First personje vaisnous allons
Second persontu vasvous allez
Third personil/elle/on vails/elles vont