Full Description
This 7th edition includes an up-to-date culture and vocabulary guide, allowing you to broaden your knowledge of contemporary language and customs.
Do you want to learn French or brush up what you know already? 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. Each unit, designed to build systematically on what you have already learned, contains:
- clear grammar explanations
- vocabulary lists
- reading material consisting of a story, dialogue or letter
- questions for speaking practice
- exercises
- 32pp test-yourself section giving you extra practice and allowing you to monitor your progress as you go through the course, helping you keep on top of tricky grammar points and regularly testing the vocabulary you're learning.
There are also revision units to help you practise 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 audio will help you with listening and speaking. In addition to a full pronunciation section, it contains reading passages and dialogues from the course book, followed by comprehension questions in French, together with model answers.
Download our free app, Teach Yourself Library, from the App Store or Google Play to access the free audio.
Contents
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
