Living French: 7th edition

ISBN-13: 9781444153972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 362 str.

Rev. Jean-Claude Arragon

Opis

Do you want to learn French or brush up what you know already? Are you planning a vacation in France or preparing for an exam? Are you looking for a course with a traditional approach to language learning, based on solid grammatical foundations, translation skills and practical vocabulary? If so, this is the course for you.

The material covers a variety of everyday topics in a simple, concise manner. There are plenty of examples and explanations to illustrate how the language works and to build confidence

There are also revision units to help you practice what you are learning. At the back of the book, an exercise key enables you to check your answers while grammar and vocabulary sections provide a useful reference.

The accompanying CD will help you with listening and speaking. In addition to a full pronunciation section, it contains reading passages or dialogues from the course book, followed by comprehension questions in French, together with model answers.

Recenzje

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Spis treści

• Lesson 1: Le salon
• Lesson 2: La salle à manger
• Lesson 3: En ville
• Lesson 4: Au bureau
• Lesson 5: La maison et le jardin
• Revision: Lessons 1-5
• Lesson 6: Au parc
• Lesson 7: Les collectionneurs de timbres
• Lesson 8: Le cambrioleur
• Lesson 9: Les habitudes des Dubois
• Lesson 10: Au restaurant
• Revision: Lessons 6-10
• Lesson 11: La France
• Lesson 12: Une erreur d'identité
• Lesson 13: Un grand magasin à Paris
• Lesson 14: Une lettre de Paris
• Lesson 15: Une lettre de Londres
• Revision: Lessons 11-15
• Lesson 16: Le Tour de France
• Lesson 17: Les vendanges
• Lesson 18: Le professeur distrait
• Lesson 19: Un chien intelligent
• Revision: Lessons 16-19
• Lesson 20: Le choix d'une carrière
• Lesson 21: La chasse au canard
• Lesson 22: Une histoire de lion
• Lesson 23: Le perroquet
• Lesson 24: Le cimetière hanté
• Revision: Lessons 20-24
• : Self-assessment tests
• The subjunctive:: Reading passage: Conversation
• : Correspondence
• : Table of Verbs
• : Idioms and Phrases
• : Useful Word Lists
• : Key to the Exercises
• : French-English Vocabulary
• : English-French Vocabulary

O autorze

T W Knight, Revised by Jean-Claude Arragon.

Jean-Claude Arragon, who has updated T.W. Knight's original course, was Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Huddersfield. Educated in France, he has taught French in English schools and universities for over 30 years. He was Chief Examiner for French A/AS Level Speaking Examinations for AQA from 1988 until 2001. He has also been a member of the inter-board development team for the new generation of AS and A-level language examinations and was responsible for the recruitment of students from French institutions within and outside the ERASMUS SOCRATES scheme. He has written French course materials for the Open University and dramatic material for the BBC television French Beginners' course 'Ensemble'.