UoP - IWLP French TB1 2025
- Andrew Starr
- Oct 20
- 6 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, 22 octobre (lundi, 20 octobre)
Halloween
This one is general Halloween vocabulary.
If you wish to apply for Level 2, you must do this by clicking here by the 19th November.
You will today (if you can) give a little presentation about your favourite Francophone.
We will look at family members and basic descriptions of people (hair and eye colour, some characteristics).
Plus:
Can you answer any of these questions? (Prepare a Word Document and your answers). You should be able to do the last two by the end of today's session. Over the consolidation week, you should aim to prepare answers to these questions. (Will certainly help with your assessments)
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?
N.B. Your first assessment, due by noon on Wednesday, 12th November, will be released to you this Wednesday (October 22nd).
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
L'étrange noël de M. Jack
mercredi, 15 octobre (lundi, 13 octobre)
If you wish to apply for Level 2, you must do this by clicking here by the 19th November.
There should have been a form link there by October 8th. However on October 8th this was emailed by the team. "There has been an error on our website for applications opening today and the webteam are trying to fix this. Apologies for any inconvenience."
Today, we will also follow up from last week's lesson.
(Most cases last week was the first lesson again due to timetabling issues)
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.
PPT Unité 0 : Mes cinq sens en action pp. 14-17 P15 Q 3b P17 Q3b
You will be learning more about nationalities, introductory language, personal belongings, the indefinite article in grammar (a/one) We will begin using adjectives to describe people.
The difference between nouns, pronouns, and stressed pronouns.
Then we will look at nationalities, professions, introducing people, and we will work more on the negation of phrases and some specific ways French uses pronunciation, along with a look at how to form the present tense of "-er" verbs.
You should have been looking over the essential vocabulary in the week.
Revision and reinforcement of prepositions stressed pronouns and higher French numbers.
Faire la bise - les règles... Alternative resource
Some revision and reinforcement clips.
Les emplois
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For next week:
•Apprendre le vocabulaire
Extra Revision and reinforcement...
"Les emplois" - Printable Files for extra reinforcement
Comment vous appelez-vous?
A song for little children
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
A useful French vocabulary list of the 12 months of the year
List of numbers from 1 to 31 in French
A useful vocabulary list of numbers 1 to 31, to express dates and birthdays in French!
A useful French vocabulary list of names of the days of the week
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...
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