Week 8, Day 3: Direct Object Pronouns and Nationalities Vocabulary Part 2 (North and South America) Copy
How are you today? I hope you are ready for your next lesson. Today, we will be learning about two things:
• Direct object pronouns
• The second part of the vocabulary for nationalities. This time we will talk about North and South American countries and the nationalities of their people.
First, let’s talk about direct object pronouns.
An object pronoun is a pronoun that replaces who or what is receiving the action of a verb. In French, there are two main types of object pronouns: the direct object pronoun and the indirect object pronoun. Today, we will focus on direct object pronouns.
Speaking Practice 1
The following rules will help you to use direct object pronouns correctly:
Listen to Week 8 Day 3 Track 2
• If me/te/le/la precede a vowel, they should be changed to m’/t’/l’
J’invite Michel à la maison. ➝ Je l’invite à la maison. (here l’ replaces le)
• When an object complement is not preceded by a preposition, the direct object pronoun replaces the direct object complement, as in the example below:
Il doit finir son article. (direct) - He must finish his article.
Il doit le finir. - He must finish it.
• Pronouns in French do not distinguish between people or things, which means the same pronoun can replace both a person and a thing; however, direct object pronouns do distinguish between genders, both for people and things (e.g., le for masculine nouns and la for feminine nouns)
Listen to the following dialogue and see if you can identify the direct object pronoun that appears in the answer to each question:
Listen to Week 8 Day 3 Track 3
Marie: Yes, I talked to him this morning.
Marc: So what did he say?
Marie: He said that I need to be at home this evening because he doesn’t have the key (to the house).
Marc: What a guy!
Marie: Ah, he invites you to our home this weekend to play video games.
Marc: Ok. That sounds good. Tell him that I will certainly beat him.
Listen to Week 8 Day 3 Track 4
Take a look below at how the complement is replaced with an object pronoun.
| L’artiste chante la chanson. (The artist sings the song.) | ➝ L’artiste la chante. (The artist sings it.) |
| Quentin appelle son ami. (Quentin calls his friend.) | ➝ Quentin l’appelle. (Quentin calls him.) |
| J’ouvre la porte. (I open the door.) | ➝ Je l’ouvre. (I open it.) |
| Nous acceptons les résultats. (We accept the results.) | ➝ Nous les acceptons. (We accept them.) |
| Elle conduit la voiture. (She drives the car.) | ➝ Elle la conduit. (She drives it) |
| Nous soutenons votre projet. (We support your project.) | ➝ Nous le soutenons. (We support it.) |
Speaking Practice 2
Now, let’s move on to the second part of this lesson.
In keeping with the theme of nationalities, we are going to learn the names of North and South American countries in French.
As mentioned previously, it is not possible to cover every country a single lesson, so we apologize if you do not see yours here. Please get in touch with us to find out the French translation of your country if it is not listed here.
Speaking Practice 3
Dialogue:
A Quick Recap of this Lesson
This lesson is about nationalities, a continuation of the topic yesterday. We reviewed the nationalities that make up North and South America. We also learned about direct object pronouns.
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