top of page
Search

UoP - IWLP French TB1 2025

  • Writer: Andrew Starr
    Andrew Starr
  • 5 days ago
  • 4 min read

This page collects resources for the University of Portsmouth's SELL French Institution Wide Language Programme French Level 1 for 2023-24 Teaching Block 1.


A shortened link to this page is rebrand.ly/uopiwlp25 

If the above link returns an error, https://shorturl.at/VPKFL will direct you to the blog index, where you can locate your page by scrolling down.


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


Radio.Garden - This online tool used to work fine, but the UK is blocking it due to copyright... If you click on the three dots under the name of the station/city - you often get a pop-up which gives you a link to the radio stations website and you can stream from there.


Other ways to practice outside of class.

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


mercredi, 8 octobre (lundi, 6 octobre)

Today, we will follow up from last week's lesson.

  • Last week we looked at the alphabet, the colours and numbers 1-31 along with the days of the week and the months of the year (see below for catch up materials).

  • We also looked at the present tense of two key (irregular) French verbs être (to be) and avoir (to have).

So, following last week's session...

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...?

  • Today we will look at the formation of 3 regular verbs belonging to the "-er" family of verbs.

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

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

mercredi, 1er octobre

Today is the introduction to the French Level 1 language course...

pp. 14-17


Présentation du programme, Saluer - Se présenter - Les nationalités, Le présent de l’indicatif (être, avoir, s’appeler)


Do you have access to the Moodle site for this module?

As university students, you will be on an accelerated learning curve here with many expectations that you can study by yourselves.


By the end of this session, 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...?


Today, we will begin learning to speak, read and write in French and listen to French being spoken.


In the first class, we will introduce ourselves and find our reasons for learning French as we do not all know each other yet.


There is a coursebook for this beginners class that I have based the content we study on. You may find it helpful to get a copy for home use and self-study (it is out of print currently, but sometimes it appears as a second-hand book).


We will also discuss your motivation for learning French.


PPT for in-class use (a version will be on Moodle) V2


We will most likely begin looking at the course book Saison 1.


The beginning discusses why you are learning French and some simple information about yourselves. There is no compulsion to buy the book, but you might find it helpful for your studies.


We will answer the French questions for:


Who are you? Why are you learning French? What does France mean for you? 


Feuilles à télécharger


Online Quizzes




An earworm which will teach you the alphabet.

An earworm which will teach you the alphabet.

Another earworm for the months of the year... Quelle est la date de ton anniversaire? 

This guy does a lot of beginner's videos... Now there's enthusiasm, and then there's ~Thomas!

He can, at least, serve as a reminder of the correct pronunciation, should you need one...




++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Comments

bottom of page