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French IWLP UoP Stage 1

Writer: Andrew Starr
Andrew Starr
5 days ago
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This is the page for the second half of the French IWLP class on Monday late afternoon.


A shortened link to this page is ajstarr.short.gy/iwlp26 


It is a page to gather links to all valuable content for me to have everything to hand.

Students will be able to access most of this directly in Moodle.


The course is based mainly on the first few chapters of the book Saison 1 

Some copies of this book are available at the University Library, a slightly older version.

Also, on the Internet Archive...


Useful online sources of French Language Media (free access)


To help improve your listening and tune your ear to the sound of the language, you can use the internet. There are a lot of free-to-air radio stations out there; also, quite a lot of TV and films are available in French online.


All 4 (Walter Presents has a fair few French TV Series)

France 24 is like BBC News 24 but in French

TV5 Monde is an online streaming platform for the Francophone World's TV, films, documentaries...

BBC iPlayer (look under BBC Four for some French Series or Films)


Free Sources for Radio


Other ways to practice outside of class.

You can find some resources online to help you study French by yourself on a Padlet here 


For Portsmouth City Council, I am the chair of the Portsmouth European Cities Twinning Committee. We are twinned with Caen in France and Duisburg in Germany. We have many other sister and partner cities around the world too.


We have an exchange visit to Caen in June. There is also likely to be a day trip coming from Caen to visit Bath on Saturday, 12th December; you would be welcome to join us and meet the French for their dinner near the international ferry port.


The content for classes is below this line:

lundi, 9 novembre

You may have submitted your assessment last Wednesday to Friday?


Your assessment was due at noon on Friday, with the automatic extension period of 48 hours up to Friday. You need to have completed and passed this assessment if you are doing this for credit and/or wish to apply to move up to Level 2.


Remember a lot of extra information and help is on Moodle.


Last Sunday here, but this Wednesday in France is when it will be marked.




This document is a model that you could adapt to practise writing about your family...


You should now be able to...

...Describe someone you know in a short paragraph. (Create your own document, where you collect all your information in French.)


PPT  - Today, we will look at further descriptions of houses and people.



Aim to create your own version of the model document (This document)


Why not prepare a few words about your hobbies and pastimes in French?

(Once we have looked at them).


Revision and Reinforcement

This BBC TV for schools and colleges programme from the 90s is 15 Minutes+. It is good to allow you to revise what we have covered and add new words to your repertoire. (It also shows some cultural aspects).


This episode covers much of the vocabulary required to discuss hobbies and pastimes. (Taking you to some of the more exotic parts of the Francophone world too!)






lundi, 2 novembre

You have mostly had lessons with Paul Joyce up until now. This was because of a clash on my timetable and with others who are available to teach French at this time.


The class I was teaching at this time has now been moved, as it involved moving fewer students to another suitable time slot.


I need to know what you feel you have covered:

You should have covered: the alphabet, numbers, and spelling, along with the days of the week and the months of the year.

The present tense of two key (irregular) French verbs: être (to be) and avoir (to have).


You should be able to:

  • Introduce yourselves and spell your name (possibly the name of your street, city, or place of birth).

  • Can you give me your age? Your nationality? What about your occupation (i.e. student)?

What else?

  • What can you tell someone a little about French Grammar?

  • Gender, adjectives...?

  • Have you looked at the formation of 3 regular verbs belonging to the "-er" family of verbs. link to verb blog

  • Two irregular verbs 'venir' and 'vivre'.

  • How to make a sentence or phrase negative. e.g. I do > I do not.


    Have you covered?:

  • Family members and basic descriptions of people (hair and eye colour, some characteristics).

    PPT  Printable Files 

    Can you answer any of these questions?


    Salut! Bonjour!


    Comment tu t'appelles? Comment vous appelez-vous?


    Quel âge as-tu? Quel âge avez-vous?


    Tu viens d'où? Vous venez d'où?


    Où habites-tu? Où habitez-vous?


    Tu es de quelle nationalité? Vous êtes de quelle nationalité?


    Tu as des frères ou des sœurs? Vous avez des frères ou des sœurs?


    Tu as/Vous avez les yeux et les cheveux de quelle couleur?


If those things above are generally solid and known, we can move on to talk about the house in French.


La maison – rooms in the house...

We will look today at the sort of houses people can live in, those who are in your family, and revise how to describe people. If required, we can begin looking at what people do for a living.


You can find a pared-down version of the PPT on Moodle.


Extra:

Personality: This link lists the most commonly used positive and negative personality trait adjectives, along with the noun associated with the adjective (often in English, this is ~ness).


For your own perusal...

These old programmes for schools and colleges were designed to revise themes and topics in a more exciting manner before the internet! They can help you remember how to pronounce French with the correct intonation.

Introductions

Ma famille


 
 
 

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