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TitleThe French Song Compendium -- by Topic (Part 3)
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Our last installment in this series covers student-friendly French songs on topics from Peace to Youth.

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Peace
- Je voudrais voir la mer/Michel Rivard

Political songs
- Protest Song/Richard Séguin
- Made in USA/Noir Silence
- Les Américains/Richard Desjardins

Québec songs
- Mon pays/Gilles Vigneault
- Les gens de mon pays/Gilles Vigneault
- Le plus beau voyage/Claude Gauthier

Seasons
- Les femmes/Mario Pelchat (comparatives, colors and seasons)

Technology
- La machine est mon amie/Luc Dela Rochellière (the world’s best
song on technology and gadgets)

Youth
- Mes 18 ans/Longue Distance
- Lassier l’été avoir 15 ans/Claude Dubois
- Je voudrais voir la mer/Michel Rivard
- A dix-sept ans/Marie-Denise Pelletier
- Quelquepart, quelqu’un/jean Jacques Goldman (numbers 1-100)
- Besoin pour vivre/Claude Dubois (verb infinitives)
- Laisser l'été avoir quinze ans/Claude Dubois (infinitives vs.
familiar commands)
- Les femmes (from the CD for the spectacle Don Juan)/Mario Pelchat (comparatives, colors and seasons; PLUS this one has a chorus in Spanish and offers an opportunity for an interdepartmental teaming with your Spanish-teaching colleagues)
- Je veux que tu saches/Matt Laurent (if clauses, the imparfait)
- Pour un instant/Harmonium (infinitives and the passé compose)
- Les dinosaures/Michel Rivard (question words)
- Qui est cet homme?/Laurence Jalbert (passé compose and preceding direct object pronouns)
- Jamais la plus belle/Mes Aieux (passé composé/imparfait use)
- Les étoiles filantes/Les Cowboys Fringants (imparfait)

Graham, D. Re: French songs for beginners. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (17 Sept. 2006).
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