This page is for the City of Portsmouth College class on Thursday evenings for Intermediate (Improvers) French.
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To improve your listening and speaking skills in a social setting, visit the evening or afternoon events organised in the city.
This post is for the French Improvers Class at the City of Portsmouth College (Highbury Campus) on Thursday 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, there's a block on 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'.
It would seem that the classes for September are ready to be applied for online...
If you are ready for something more advanced, the Advanced class is on Wednesdays.
If you wish to keep working at this level (we repeat only the verb grammar tenses etc.)
This Intermediate Class will move to Tuesdays, 19:00 - 21:00.
As a result, the price will reduce slightly as the class will be just 90 minutes, allowing a beginners class to run from 18:00 to 19:30.
German for Beginners and Intermediate will run on Thursdays from 18:00 - 19:30 and 19:30 to 21:00, respectively.
I currently have the starting week for Adult classes in September as Monday, 18th September and ending on Thursday, 30th November (There are no classes on Friday evenings).
Here are the Adult Education Dates for the Academic Year 2023-2024...
Autumn Term:
18th September 2023 - 30th November 2023 (Half term w/c October 23rd)
Spring Term:
8th January 2024 - 21st March 2024 (Half term w/c February 12th)
Summer Term:
15th April 2024 - 17th June 2024 (Half Term w/c May 27th)
jeudi, 15 juin
This is the final lesson... La révolution française et la Marseillaise... Festivals
Festivals in France throughout the year - Décibel 2 and of course, their major event <<La fête nationale>>
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg - Devant le Garage.
jeudi, 8 juin
We will try to look at an article from a French newspaper about someone famous who recently died (the same day as Tina Turner).
From the course book EN1 We will look at:
The Grammar Consolidation exercises on pp 100-101.
The Twinning Association with Friends of Portsmouth Twinning are screening this film at the Southsea Cinema in Palmerston Road. Thursday, 29th June at 7 pm. £6.00
jeudi, 25 mai
We will look at the construction of reflexive verbs once more with regard to talking about daily life. p.97-99/100.
We should look at the formation of the imperfect tense and its use in French. Hopefully, too, the Pluperfect Tense.
Vocabulary and examples of use for talking about hobbies.
These help you reinforce and review what you have already covered in class...
jeudi, 18 mai
We will continue looking at people's personality traits and those of the main characters in Hergé's Adventures of Tintin (p 95). (See below for some episodes)
Piste 3 for Listening Exercises
We will revise the time and the use of reflexive verbs in French.
Using this blog post, we can look at how to form the regular Perfect Tense in French - perhaps including the être and reflexive verbs too (if it is not too much in one go!)
Remember that Verb Drills are the best way to get used to all of these tenses and verb-related grammar.
On Amazon, the book is often cheaper to buy than it would be to download and print!
Learn about reflexive verbs your way!
jeudi, 11 mai
We will look at people's personality traits and those of the main characters in Hergé's Adventures of Tintin. (See below for some episodes)
We will revise the time and the use of reflexive verbs in French.
Cette chanson comprend l'heure et les verbes réfléchis.
jeudi, 4 mai
We will continue to look at some French cities, regions, and parts of the world where French is spoken. (We covered Lyon and the first part of Corsica last week)
We will continue to look at the day-to-day routine and timings thereof.
Les aventures de Tintin (Playlist)
This one mentions a Hollywood Movie Series...
jeudi, 27 avril
We will continue to look at some French cities, regions, and parts of the world where French is spoken. (We covered Paris last week)
A look at everyday routines and how to talk about them in French (some of the group began to look at this before).
We will look at an example of a daily routine, and you can use this to talk about your day-to-day routine. Poster Online Clock Face Time Worksheet
A recap of how to tell the time in French.
A recap of the most common daily routine phrases
jeudi, 20 avril
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 seven weeks). It is also how we can get to know each other (for any people who were not in this class before).
Considering a few general themes and topics you would like to study would be helpful. 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 1 and Entre Nous 2
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?
Parlez nous de votre famille...
Parlez nous de votre ville...
We will look at some French cities, regions, and parts of the world where French is spoken.
The best-selling francophone single of all time... from 1991.
The actual clip-vidéo was over 10 minutes long mini feature film!
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