FSV #1: JACQUES (Passé Composé Être Verbs) – French Vocabulary Song

The JACQUES (French Song Vocabulary, FSV #1) blog post & vocabulary set concentrate on verbs while retelling a shortened version of the classic “Jack & the Beanstalk” story. It is accompanied with the JACQUES (PASSÉ COMPOSÉ ÊTRE VERBS) song (available on the Madame Fipa Youtube channel). All the verbs (except ÊTRE) of the song make up the famous PASSÉ COMPOSÉ ÊTRE verb list (verbs that require ÊTRE to form the Passé Composé past tense) and are also some of the most commonly used verbs in the French language. This set is centered around those verbs and is great not only for beginners who are trying to learn more French verbs, but also for novice/intermediate learners trying to master the PASSÉ COMPOSÉ past tense. (*Post updated Mar 3, 2020)

Feature image credit: Music video of “Dr Mrs VANDERTRAMP song, Passé Composé ÊTRE song, JACQUES / Jack & the Beanstalk – Madame Fipa”

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Watch the music video and see if you can fill in the Video Word Blanks below.

JACQUES
(Passé Composé Être Verbs)
Video Word Blanks

Jacques est (1)_____ et (2)_____ .
À la maison tout pauvre.
Et un jour, tout grand, il est (3)_____ et (4)_____.
Haricot est (5)____ …
Une grande tige, très grande tige.
Soudainement, courageux… Il est (6)____  au ciel.

Q1: According to the video, which answer best fills in blanks (1)?

a) NE b) NÉE c) NÉ d) NAI

Q2: According to the video, which answer best fills in blanks (2)?

a) RESTÉ b) RESTER c) RESTÉE d) RESTE

Q3: According to the video, which answer best fills in blanks (3)?

a) SORTIE b) SORTI c) SORTIT d) SORTIS

Q4: According to the video, which answer best fills in blanks (4)?

a) PARTIE b) PARTIS c) PARTIT d) PARTI

Q5: According to the video, which answer best fills in blanks (5)?

a) DEVENUE b) DEVENOU c) DEVENU d) DEVUNU

Q6: According to the video, which answer best fills in blanks (6)?

a) MONTER b) MONTÉE c) MONTÉ d) MONTE

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B) Word List 1

Learn some of the words from the song with the Word Map & Word Table below.

JACQUES
(Passé Composé Être Verbs)
Word Table Preview

Notes:  1) Scroll horizontally, if all table columns are not visible.  2) LINK*  This column shows the DICTIONARY-LOOK-UP word & a link to an online dictionary entry.  3) (* ) This is the translation of the conjugated verb. 

#	WORD		LINK*	DEFINITION	GRAMMAR	NOTES
1	NÉ		NAÎTRE	(*Born)	vt-irr-pp	---
2	RESTÉ		RESTER	(*Stayed)	vt-ER-pp	---
...	...		...	...	...	...

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JACQUES
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Notes:  1)  (* ) This is the translation of the conjugated verb.   
2) Pink word boxes show the lyric vocabulary words.
3) Blue word boxes show Bonus words.
4) White word boxes attached to other word boxes (verbs, nouns, adjectives) show the various forms of the words they are attached to.
5) Bold font show dictionary-look-up words (The form of the word that it is listed under in the dictionary.)
6) Italics show feminine words.

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Tips & Tricks Tricks to help memorize the 17 PASSÉ COMPOSÉ ÊTRE verbs.

 

1. SONG – JACQUES (PASSÉ COMPOSÉ ÊTRE VERBS) : All the verbs in the song (except  ÊTRE) are the PASSÉ COMPOSÉ ÊTRE verbs. 

House of Être (Source: Cliffnotes)

2. PICTURE – HOUSE of ÊTRE : A picture where all the words are placed in a way to help learn the meanings of all the words.

3. ACRONYM – Dr Mrs VANDERTRAMP+P : Acronym, where each letter stands for a PASSÉ COMPOSÉ ÊTRE verb (D=Devenu/Devenir, R=Revenu/Revenir, etc…).

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Use the clues below to guess which word from the word list is the Review Word (1) in the article blank. Can you also guess the Bonus word (a)?

JACQUES
(Passé Composé Être Verbs)
Review Question

Article from ACTU FRANCE

• Review Word (1) has the infinitive form NAÎTRE and completes the blank in the article.
• Bonus Word (a) means “To know” and contains the infinitive form of the Review Word (1) in it.

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Here is a sneak peek of a vocabulary word from the next FSV blog post song AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE (FSV #2). Can you guess the vocabulary word in the blank?

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For more vocabulary & to see the Sneak Peek word in a song, go to the next FSV blog post song, AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE (FSV #2)!

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