Jamie - French Tuition

Andrew Starr
2 days ago
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This page is for the tuition session with Jamie about French.

A shortened link for this page is ajstarr.short.gy/jwsy

Outside of class

To improve your listening and speaking skills in a social setting, why not come to the evening or afternoon events I organise in the city?

Facebook Group

Blog Post

We have a twin city in Caen. I am the Chair of the Twinning Association for France and Germany. To find out more about our twin cities, visit this website.

Tips for tuning your ear to 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 learning the French language (not all of it, correct!)

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

( rebrand.ly/frres )

Pronunciation Practice ver

Here is the direct link to France 2 Journal - it should be linked to the most recent 20:00 Journal!

This is the TV5 Monde International News Live Streaming

TSR (Suisse) RTS on YouTube

France 24 - français

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8PMl7tUDIE

Find some Francophone music you like - there's an extraordinary amount out there, and all can be seen on YouTube whenever you like. I have written much more about French music here.

fichier principal

mercredi 25 février - 19h00

You may have prepared a presentation about your family in French based on an excerpt from the text we looked at here>>> adapt this model.

From Conversations, Situations we will look at the theme of physical descriptions and clothing.

We also have an A2 Level (CEFR) text about favourite clithes in different seasons.

For grammar we should revise the formation of the Present Tense for regular verbs... How confident are you with irregular verbs?

How do you form the Present tense of '-er' verbs?
How do you form the Present tense of '-ir' verbs?
How do you form the Present tense of '-re' verbs?

Check the verb formation blog, for the formation of French verbs in the present tense.

ajstarr.short.gy/frverb

Note the formation of some of the main irregular verbs, these must be learned there's no easy formula, although some do seem to have a pattern you may pick up over time.

For a really in-depth write up click here. Top 10 irregular verbs Overview - irregular

To check verb conjugation - particularly while you are learning all those irregular verbs - this tool could be of use to you.

jeudi 12 février - 19h00

We agreed we would start with the book « Conversations, Situations » to see how you manage with conversational situations in French.

You could then use the theme from the book we have discussed to create a written document (in your own study time) of what you would say in these situations.

The first themes would be... (C/S pp 2-5).

Talking about yourself and family, where you are from and greeting people in an appropriate manner.

Culture

Mardi Gras (fiche imprimée) mardi, 17 février

La Saint Valentin (fiche imprimée) - samedi, 14 février

Dicton de la semaine

« Poser un lapin à quelqu'un » - to place a rabbit upon someone

Chanson:

Désenchantée par Mylène Farmer... 1991. -- Extrait copié de Wikipédia.fr

Désenchantée est une chanson de Mylène Farmer, sortie le 18 mars 1991 en tant que premier extrait de son troisième album, L'Autre….

Écrite par Mylène Farmer et composée par Laurent Boutonnat, Désenchantée demeure le plus gros succès de la chanteuse : n^o 1 durant neuf semaines, elle est la chanson la plus diffusée de l'année 1991 en France et celle qui a rapporté le plus de revenus générés à partir des droits d'auteur. Elle connaît également le succès au-delà des frontières françaises, s'écoulant à plus de 1 300 000 exemplaires.

Soutenu par un clip de Laurent Boutonnat tourné en Hongrie, Désenchantée est un des titres les plus emblématiques des années 1990 et parvient à traverser les générations, demeurant la chanson de Mylène Farmer la plus écoutée sur les plateformes de streaming. En 2005, elle a été la chanson française la plus diffusée dans le monde.