UoP French L3&4 2025

Andrew Starr
Oct 20
4 min read

Updated: Oct 21

This page collects resources for the University of Portsmouth's SELL French General Language Class 2025-26.

A shortened link to this page is rebrand.ly/uopfr25

If the above link returns an error, ajstarr.short.gy/blog will direct you to the blog index, where you can locate your page by scrolling down.

A useful book to get your head around French Grammar (there are versions in languages other than English, too).

Lien très utile >>> Grammaire Française pour les nuls (Version Anglaise) <<< Lien très utile

It is a page to gather links to all valuable content, so I have everything to hand. Students will be able to access most of this directly in Moodle.

Pronunciation Practice

mardi, 16 décembre

mardi, 9 décembre

mardi, 2 décembre

mardi, 25 novembre

mardi, 18 novembre

mardi, 11 novembre

mardi, 4 novembre

mardi, 21 octobre

Hopefully, on Monday, you covered ... Fichiers

Expression de la cause et de la conséquence.

Le subjonctif

You also may have covered

L'obligation et l'interdiction...

With this in mind, today we move on to the theme of health.

Unité 7- Santé pp.98-108
Donner un conseil (1)
Les pronoms COD et COI, p.100
Exprimer son point de vue/ Parler des problèmes de santé
Le superlatif p.103
Les pronoms interrogatifs p.107
Les mots de l'actualité
For your assessment, you need to watch the movie 'Les Choristes' - This film is on Box of Broadcasts. We will if time allows discuss what sort of questions you might be using in your assessment...
You will soon be issued with the assessment overview and instruction brief.

BOB

Aspets Culturels

Toussaint et le jour des défunts

Or, for a bit of cultural research and translation of an aural text, how would you translate the message in this news bulletin from TF1 about Halloween in France into English?

Halloween en France - Depuis Quand?

PPT

A commencer pendant la semaine prochaine

Regardez le film et prenez des notes des thèmes dont on a parlé dans la colloque. Puis dès la publication des instructions... préparez pour pouvoir mettre à jour vos enregistrements pour la date limite du 12 novembre.

You should have access to the assessment task on Weds 29th.

Are there any questions, hints and tips you need? Now would be the best time to ask!

Written for French teenagers who also have to write a film review with some hints on what to do and what not to do!

Some French Film Critiques on: (offering some inspiration for what you might wish to say.)

Killers of the Flower Moon Au revoir les enfants No et moi (Presse)

Halloween

Here are some more details about the subjunctive. I wrote a whole blog about verbs; you can access it here.

From Édito A2:

Lire page 120, Entraînement p.122, Bilan grammaire, Le subjonctif p.117

La place des pronoms COD et COI p.121, Faire une critique de film

Quite a few examples of all tenses, including the subjunctive mood in this song from the 1990s by Céline Dion

Mots manquants

La sédentarité - We will look in a little more depth at this today.

The French government has this website linked on many advertisements on TV. Ideas to get people doing more and eating more sensibly... (usually on ads for things deemed less healthy).

This page can help us find things to say about la sédentarité.