👉 Practise French tenses in context by reading and listening to "The Oak and the Reed" by Jean de la Fontaine (full text).
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🎬 In this VIDEO
- Vocabulary in bold in the text is translated into English in the margin
- Conjugated verbs in the text are colored, each colour corresponds to one tense
- Underlined tenses correspond to complex tenses (tenses using être/avoir)
🎭 The STORY
"The Oak and the Reed" is one of Aesop's Fables. It appears in many versions: in some it is with many reeds that the oak converses and in a late rewritten version it disputes with a willow. Interpretations of the fable began to change after the more nuanced retelling in La Fontaine's Fables, "Le Chêne et le Roseau". Here the oak has compassion on the reed's fragility and offers it protection, to which the reed politely replies that it has its own strategy for survival, "I bend and do not break". Written in the autocratic time of Louis XIV of France, this was so successfully achieved that it appeared to teach the value of humility at the same time as suggesting that rulers may not be as powerful as they think themselves. (source: Wikipedia - edited)
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