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A Vous! Theresa A. Antes

A Vous! By Theresa A. Antes

A Vous! by Theresa A. Antes


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An introductory French program that makes learning French easier. It includes program that integrates the aspects of theories in second-language acquisition and focuses on skills crucial to the learning and use of a foreign language.

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A Vous!: The Global French Experience by Theresa A. Antes

A 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.

Table 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 etre. 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? A 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 a; Telling time; Regular -ir verbs; Prepositions and contractions with definite articles; The verb faire. Culture: Housing in Francophone Europe; Winter in Quebec. A 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. A l'aventure! La Provence. 7. LES INFOS QUI M'ENTOURENT. Vocabulary: The media; Events in our lives. Structures: Passe compose with avoir; Negative and interrogative in the passe compose; Passe compose with etre; Passe compose with y, en, and adverbs; The verbs lire, dire, ecrire. 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; Passe compose of reflexive and reciprocal verbs; The verbs quitter, partir and sortir. Culture: A Moroccan wedding; Interracial and intercultural marriage in France. A 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 passe compose; Passe compose and imparfait to express point of view; The meaning of certain verbs in the passe compose and imparfait; Giving commands; Giving commands with reflexive verbs. Culture: Working conditions in the Francophone world; Looking for work in the Francophone world. A 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 ou. Culture: French advertisements; The French and wine. A l'aventure! Le Quebec. 13. MA VIE BRANCHEE! Vocabulary: Modern technology; Extreme sports and other hobbies; Fitness, exercise, and physical activities. Structures: The verbs connaitre 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. A l'aventure! La Normandie. Appendice A: Dans la classe de francais. Appendice B: Les Etats-Unis et le Canada. Appendice C: L'alphabet phonetique international (API). Appendice D: Conjugaison des verbes. French-English Vocabulary. English-French Vocabulary. Index. Credits.

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CIN0495912085G
9780495912088
0495912085
A Vous!: The Global French Experience by Theresa A. Antes
Used - Good
Hardback
Cengage Learning, Inc
20110101
560
N/A
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