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This post is for the French Advanced Improvers Class at the City of Portsmouth College (Highbury Campus) on Monday evenings from January to March 2023.
Tips for refreshing and reinforcing your French
Listen to French Music - Watch French TV series and films (or at least videos/news in French)
There is a lot of stuff online for the French language and learning (not all of it, correct!) The sites below are usually accessible for free and have French-language content.
Free sources for TV
All 4 (Walter Presents on Channel 4 has some French Series among the many foreign series)
France 24 (online news 24/7 in French)
TV5 Monde (an online bank of Francophone TV and Film)
BBC iPlayer (often under BBC 4 programming)
Free Sources for Radio
Radio.Garden (Sadly, since October 2022, the UK government has blocked this website for working outside the UK). However, click on the ellipsis (...). You can see the option to visit the website - click there, and you can go to the website - click on 'écouter la radio', and it gives all the France Bleu regional stations in France... then you can listen (this option will work on most radio stations based on 'Radio.Garden'.
Summer term Courses
The summer term course will run for eight weeks rather than 10. Therefore, the price will be about 20% less than the Autumn and Spring Terms' price.
The summer term classes will move to Wednesday evenings as it would need to run over 12 weeks if it were on a Monday due to the 3 Bank Holidays and the Monday of the Exchange Visit to Caen.
They will be on Wednesday, April 19th and 26th, May 3rd, May 10th, 17th and 24th, Half Term, June 7th and 14th.
The classes run for ten weeks on the dates below:
Monday, March 27th
This evening will look at Easter and April Fool Traditions in France...
- Que faites vous pour fêter Pâques ?
- Et vous avez jamais fêter le poisson d'avril?
À l'écoute Exercise from here
Voici l’exercice de compréhension orale :
Pendant la semaine sainte les Français font des processions ?
□ Vrai □ Faux
Pâques se célèbre le jour de la pleine lune.
□ Vrai □ Faux
Vendredi saint est férié en France.
□ Vrai □ Faux
Le lundi qui suit le dimanche de Pâques est férié en France.
□ Vrai □ Faux
Les vacances de Pâques sont toujours pendant la semaine sainte.
□ Vrai □ Faux
Le dimanche de Pâques, on mange un gigot d’agneau avec des haricots verts.
□ Vrai □ Faux
Le dimanche de Pâques, on cache des œufs en chocolat dans le jardin et les enfants doivent les chercher.
□ Vrai □ Faux
Ce sont les cloches qui laissent tomber les œufs de Pâques.
□ Vrai □ Faux
Monday, March 20th
Tonight, from Entre Nous 3, we will look at how people sell their image, and this text deals a lot with our favourite subjunctive! Piste 24 Drills
Actualités
Monday, March 13th
Tonight, from Entre Nous 3, we will look at how people generally show the most positive aspects of their lives on Social Media and listen to others discussing this.
Actualités
Chanson verb challenge below
Monday, March 6th
Today. from Entre Nous 3, we will look at managing one's online presence and how people portray their lives online. Pistes Audio p69
Possibly discussion on agreement or disagreement with others' opinions.
Actualités
Chanson
Verb challenge, we have Present, Perfect, Imperfect, Future and Subjunctive in this song... can you conjugate all with the correct spelling?
Monday, February 27th
Tonight, having looked at escaping your comfort zones, cultural superstitions and beliefs, from Entre Nous 3, we will look at «Gérer son image». This includes one's image on Social Media...
Actualités
Chanson
Zaz - La lessive
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Monday, February 20th
Tonight, from Entre Nous 3, we will look at: Various countries' approaches to 'Good Luck Charms'
Culture et Actualités
Related to the Entre Nous Exercises.
News from Bénin Thursday, 16 February (the language tends to be slower than most and quite well pronounced)
Rallumer les étoiles - Mylène Farmer (latest release)
Une petite blague bretonne
Monday, February 6th
Tonight from Entre Nous 3 we will look at stepping out of your comfort zones.
Talking about the «Zone de Confort»
Chanson
La blague du jour
Monday, January 30th
Tonight, we will continue to look at the chapter from Entre Nous 3
«If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas?»
Using «Si...»
Online exercise to make up unlikely scenarios with «si» clauses.
Talking about the «Zone de Confort»
Actualité
Avenir
Caen 2025 - La ville aura 1000 ans From the CaenMAG publication
Chanson
Les Colocs - La Rue Principale Paroles
Monday, January 23rd
Tonight, we will continue to look at the chapter from Entre Nous 3, «Oser Vivre Sa Vie»
Actualité
Chanson
Calogero - Un jour au mauvais endroit
Monday, January 16th
Tonight is the first lesson. We will look at what motivates you to improve your French, why you have signed up and what you want to get from the class (so I can best prepare for the next nine weeks). It is also how we can get to know each other (for any people who were not in this class before).
It would be helpful to consider a few general themes and topics you would like to study. In particular, any grammatical features you feel you need to improve on. I will otherwise choose various topics and items I find in my perusal of the Francophone internet and news and possibly from one or two coursebooks I have at my disposal. In particular, the book Entre Nous 3
Voici quelques questions pour vous faire parler aujourd'hui:
Pourquoi voulez-vous améliorer votre français?
Parlez-nous d'une visite en France ou dans un pays francophone...
Que faites-vous dans la vie?
Quels sont vos passe-temps préférés?
Actualités
Thème du livre Entre Nous 3
Pour l'intérêt
Sa générique
Connaître ou savoir la différence?
Et oui!
Extra
Here is a blog post about Francophone Music for a few songs, singers or bands who sing in French. Click here.
Project Gutenberg - Classic Books to read in e-book form for free.
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