Full Description
In "Pause-cafe", students continue their study of French into the second year, traveling throughout the French-speaking world and exploring French and Francophone cultures via the abundant cultural material in this exciting new textbook. "Pause-cafe" focuses on and recycles seven major communicative functions throughout this intermediate-level textbook: describing, comparing, narrating in the past, reacting and recommending, asking questions, talking about the future, and hypothesizing. The key grammatical structures that support these functions, called Points cles, appear with practice exercises at the back of the book. What is unique about this approach and these materials is the idea of narrowing the focus of instruction to seven communicative functions, all of which appear in every chapter from the very beginning of the textbook.The functions are moved to the forefront so that students are prompted to view grammar as a tool to communicate more effectively. "Pause-cafe" helps students focus primarily on communicative functions because they are continuously recycled throughout the text, while the content and themes change with each new chapter.
Contents
Pour commencer*[D] Decrire *[C] Comparer *[P] Parler du passe *[R] Reagir et recommander *[Q] Poser des questions *[F] Parler du futur *[H] Faire des hypotheses Pour ecrire Chapitre 1 Perspectives: Perceptions et impressions Rencontres: Les premieres impressions Vocabulaire thematique * Note culturelle: Une question de sensibilite Points cles: Decrire et Comparer [D] [C] Coin-culture * Destination: Paris * Un cineaste francais: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Lecture: L'Etudiant etranger de Philippe Labro Pour ecrire Autres themes pour discuter Chapitre 2 Passions et sentiments: Quelle est l'influence des autres sur notre vie? Rencontres: Une soiree inoubliable Vocabulaire thematique * Note culturelle: Les relations sentimentales en France Points cles: Parler du passe [P] Coin-culture * Destination: La Provence * Les Arts provencaux: Les santons de Provence Lecture: Comment cuisiner son mari a l'africaine de Calixthe Belaya Pour ecrire Autres themes pour discuter Chapitre 3 Les relations familiales: Quelle est l'importance de nos racines? Rencontres: Maman vient me rendre visite. Que faire? Vocabulaire thematique * Note culturelle: La famille en France Points cles: Reagir et recommander [R] Coin-culture * Destination: Les Caraibes francophones * Un groupe antillais: Kassav', createur du zouk Lecture: "Elle avait pris ce pli..." de Victor Hugo Pour ecrire Autres themes pour discuter Chapitre 4 Travail et loisirs: Comment vous detendez-vous? Rencontres: Il faut bien vivre! Vocabulaire thematique * Note culturelle: Comment eviter les faux pas culturels Points cles: Poser des questions [Q] Coin-culture * Destination: L'Afrique francophone * Un realisateur senegalais: Ousmane Sembene Lecture: La Greve des battu de Aminata Sow Fall Pour ecrire Autres themes pour discuter Chapitre 5 Le nouveau millenaire et l'avenir: Que se passera-t-il dans le futur? Rencontres: Les projets pour l'ete Vocabulaire thematique * Note culturelle: De l'Europe a l'Union europeenne Points cles: Parler du futur [F] Coin-culture * Destination: L'Europe francophone * Un artiste belge: Rene Magritte Lecture: "Liberte" de Paul Eluard Pour ecrire Autres themes pour discuter Chapitre 6 Le monde actuel: Quelle influence ont sur nous les problemes dans le monde? Rencontres: Parlons de la France! Vocabulaire thematique * Note culturelle: La vie politique en France Points cles: Faire des hypotheses [H] Coin-culture * Destination: Le Quebec * Un realisateur quebecois: Denys Arcand Lecture: La Noel d'Okarnak d'Yves Theriault Pour ecrire Autres themes pour discuter Explications grammaticales: Les points cles Decrire [D] * Gender of nouns * Adjectives *C'est vs. Il est / Elle est * Negation * Relative pronouns Comparer [C] * Regular comparative forms * Irregular comparative forms * Superlatives Parler du passe [P] * Formation of the passe compose * Formation of the imparfait * Using the passe compose and the imparfait * Verbs with different meanings in the imparfait and the passe compose *Plus-que-parfait *Passe simple Reagir et recommander [R] * Present subjunctive * Using the subjunctive * Conjunctions that require the subjunctive * Past subjunctive * Imperative mood (Commands) Poser des questions [Q] *Yes/No questions * Information questions * Interrogative pronouns qui and que * Adjective quel * Interrogative pronoun lequel Parler du futur [F] * Near future * Simple future * Future perfect Faire des hypotheses [H] * Formation of the present conditional * Using the present conditional *Si clauses and hypothetical events * Formation and use of the past conditional Autres points de grammaire [APG] *1. Determiners 1.1 Definite articles 1.2 Indefinite articles 1.3 Partitive articles 1.4 Possessive adjectives 1.5 Demonstrative adjectives *2. Adverbs 2.1 Types of adverbs 2.2 Formation of adverbs 2.3 Placement *3. Pronouns 3.1. Direct object pronouns 3.2. Indirect object pronouns 3.3. y and en 3.4 Disjunctive pronouns 3.5 Possessive pronouns 3.6 Demonstrative pronouns *4. Verbs 4.1 Expressions with avoir 4.2 savoir and connaitre 4.3 Pronominal verbs 4.4 Verbs followed by a preposition 4.5 faire causatif Appendice 1: Answer Key Appendice 2: Verb ChartsNER(01): WOW
