Cengage Advantage: À Vous!, Worktext Volume II, Chapters 8-14; .. Vol.2 - The Global French Experience Chapters 8-14

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 first travel- or study-abroad experience, and high-interest cultural topics that invite cross-cultural comparisons. This innovative and comprehensive approach to the introduction of French language and culture asks students to use their analytical skills while participating in a highly interactive and personalized learning experience. The Worktext version of À vous, 2nd Edition Volume 2 includes the complete front matter and back matter plus Textbook Chapters 8-14 PLUS SAM Chapters 8-14 in one convenient paperbound volume. Volume 1 also includes the complete front matter and back matter plus Textbook Chapters 1-8 PLUS SAM Chapters 1-8.

List of contents

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 with definite 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 Francophone African 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 ET AMICALES.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 composé and 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 in the 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 and où. 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 franÃ
ais.Appendice B: Les États-Unis et le Canada.Appendice C: L'alphabet phonétique international (API).Appendice D: Conjugaison des verbes.French-English Vocabulary.English-French Vocabulary.Index.Credits.

Product details

• Authors: Véronique Anover, Theresa A. Antes
• Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA
• Languages: French, English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.04.2011
• EAN: 9780495917014
• ISBN: 978-0-495-91701-4
• No. of pages: 496
• Weight: 892 g
• Series: Cengage Advantage Books
• Subject: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes