À VOUS! is a complete introductory French program that makes learning French easier through its flexible and accessible approach. The program integrates the best aspects of theories in second-language acquisition and focuses on skills crucial to the learning and use of a foreign language. The program incorporates high-frequency vocabulary that is of interest to today's students, grammar explanations that are complete and comprehensible, a focus on all skills, task-based activities that simulate what students will do during their firsttravel- or study-abroad experience, and high-interest cultural topics that invite cross-cultural comparisons. This innovative and comprehensive approach tothe introduction of French language and culture asks students to use their analytical skills while participating in a highly interactive and personalized learning experience. INDICE: To the Student. An Overview of the Textbook's Main Features. Acknowledgments. 1. QUI ES-TU? Vocabulary: Basic conversations; Introductions; Making plans. Structures: The alphabet; Tu vs. Vous; Numbers 0-30; Numbers 31-69; Le verbe être. Culture: Greetings and goodbyes in Francophone countries; Universities in France. 2. JE SUIS. Vocabulary: Describing yourself and others; Daily activities; professions, pets. Structures: Negation; The verb avoir; Adjectives placement and agreement; Regular and stem changing -er verbs; Indefinite articles. Culture: Portrait of some French and Francophone "speakers"; Is there a "typical" French person? À l'aventure! La Guadeloupe. 3. MA FAMILLE ET MES AMIS. Vocabulary: Family members; Days of the week and months of the year; Sports and Leisure activities. Structures: Yes/no questions; Definite articles; Possessive adjectives; On and il y a; Numbers 70-1,000,000. Culture: The French and their pets; Mother's Day in the Central African Republic. 4. MON APPARTEMENT. Vocabulary: Describing an apartment or house; Prepositions; Household chores; the weather. Structures: The near future; the verb aller contractions with à; Telling time; Regular -ir verbs; Prepositions and contractions withdefinite articles; The verb faire. Culture: Housing in Francophone Europe; Winter in Québec. À l'aventure! La Wallonie. 5. MA VILLE. Vocabulary: Specialty shops; Clothing. Structures: Regular -re verbs; Partitive articles and expressions of quantity; The verbs mettre, porter, and essayer; The pronouns y and en; The verbs prendre, comprendre, and apprendre. Culture: Brasseries; French supermarkets. 6. MEW GOUTS GASTRONOMIQUES. Vocabulary: Expressions with avoir ; eating at a restaurant; Foods; Table settings. Structures: The verbs vouloir, and boire ; review of the partitive; Adverbs; The verbs devoir and pouvoir; Negations: ne...plus, ne... jamais, ne...rien, ne.... Personne; . Interrogative adjective quel. Culture: French bread and cheese; French and FrancophoneAfrican table manners. À l'aventure! La Provence. 7. LES INFOS QUI M'ENTOURENT. Vocabulary: The media; Events in our lives. Structures: Passé composé with avoir; Negative and interrogative in the passé composé; Passé composé with être; Passé composé with y, en, and adverbs; The verbs lire, dire, écrire. Culture: French television; TV Guides in France. 8. MES RELATIONS AMOUREUSES ETAMICALES. Vocabulary: Daily routines; Romantic and friendly relationships; Personal relationships. Structures: Present tense of reflexive verbs; Reflexive verbs in the near future; Reciprocal verbs; Passé composé of reflexive and reciprocal verbs; The verbs quitter, partir and sortir. Culture: A Moroccan wedding; Interracial and intercultural marriage in France. À l'aventure! La Louisiane. 9. QUAND J'ETAIS ADOLESCENT(E). Vocabulary: School life; Concerns of adolescents; Child-rearing; Parts of the body and body image. Structures: Formation and uses of the imperfect tense; The imperfect with y and en; Interrogative pronouns; forming questions in the imperfect; Indefinite and definite articles with parts of the body. Culture: French teenagers and their parents; Problems of adolescents in Francophone countries. 10. MON BOULOT. Vocabulary: Work; Giving directions. Structures: Imparfait versus passé composé; Passé composéand imparfait to express point of view; The meaning of certain verbs in the passé composé and imparfait; Giving commands; Giving commands with reflexive verbs. Culture: Working conditions in the Francophone world; Looking for work inthe Francophone world. À l'aventure! La Tunisie. 11. MES FINANCES. Vocabulary: At the hair dresser's; Banking and personal finances. Structures: Direct object pronouns; Direct object pronouns in commands; Past participle agreement; Comparative; Superlative; The verbs venir, revenir and devenir. Culture: Expenses that the French have; Consumers in Tunisia. 12. MES REVES. Vocabulary:Emotions; Travel by train and plane; Making hotel reservations; tourist activities. Structures: The conditional tense; Prepositions used with continents, countries and cities; Relative pronouns qui and que; Relative pronouns dont andoù. Culture: French advertisements; The French and wine. À l'aventure! Le Québec. 13. MA VIE BRANCHEE! Vocabulary: Modern technology; Extreme sports and other hobbies; Fitness, exercise, and physical activities. Structures:The verbs connaître and savoir; The future tense; Disjunctive pronouns; Indirect object pronouns; Combining pronouns in a sentence. Culture: The internet in Africa; The French and soccer. 14. MON BIEN ETRE ET MA SANTE. Vocabulary: Health, internal organs, medical problems and remedies; Emotions; dietary habits; Expressions of emotion, desire, judgment, doubt and certainty. Structures: The present subjunctive; The subjunctive of irregular verbs; Subjunctive vs. infinitives; The subjunctive with expressions of emotion and desire; The subjunctive with expressions of judgment and doubt. Culture: How the French attain well being; Traditional medicine in Africa. À l'aventure! La Normandie. Appendice A: Dans la classe de français. Appendice B: Les Etats-Unis et le Canada. Appendice C: L'alphabet phonétique international (API). Appendice D: Conjugaison des verbes. French-English Vocabulary. English-French Vocabulary. Index. Credits.
- ISBN: 978-0-495-91208-8
- Editorial: Heinle & Heinle
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 560
- Fecha Publicación: 31/01/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés