Now in a brand new full colour edition, Façon de Parler 2 is the perfect follow-on from Façon de Parler 1 or any other beginner's French course, and is specially designed for adult learners at intermediate level.
The coursebook has been revised and updated to cover a wide range of topics. Layouts have been streamlined and simplified to improve readability, while use of English is kept to a minimum in line with modern trends. Each unit contains:
- lively, illustrated dialogues and comprehension questions
- structured pair-work and group-work activities
- basic vocabulary and useful expressions
- grammar notes
- listening comprehension fully referenced to audio tracks (for work with the recordings)
There are also regular revision sections to consolidate the main topics and grammar points, and a grammar summary at the end of the book.
Façon de Parler 2 is ideal for group work and will also be invaluable for individual study and revision purposes.
: Première unité
: Introductions and personal details. Revision of the present tense; habiter + à + en. Use of depuis + present tense. Agreement of adjectives.
: Deuxième unité
: Activities in the past. Invitations and formal letters. Revision of the perfect tense with avoir, regular and common irregular verbs; several verbs with être. Agreement of preceding object. Il y a meaning 'ago'.
: Troisième unité
: Giving details of an area. Location of accommodation. Use of qui, que and dont. More adjectives.
: Quatrième unité
: Ordering meals, stating preferences and making complaints. Lequel/Laquelle? Celui/Celle?
: Cinqième unité
: Supermarket, post office and bank. The perfect tense with être.
: Sixième unité
: Describing a holiday. Making enquiries, writing a letter. More on the perfect tense with être.
: Septième unité
: Making plans to go out. Personal experiences in the past. Perfect tense of reflexive verbs.
: Huitième unité
: Discussing jobs, working hours and conditions of service. Answering ads and making job applications.
: Neuvième unité
: Planning the future. Making comparisons. Enquiring about places of interest. The future tense.
: Dixième unité
: Weather bulletins. A DIY website. More on the future tense. The present participle.
: Onzième unité
: Business phone calls. Conditions of work, safety issues.
: Douzième unité
: Describing continuous activities in the past. Means of transport. The imperfect tense. Reported speech.
: Treizième unité
: Making comparisons. Stating preferences. The comparative and superlative. Possessive pronouns.
: Quatorzième unité
: Reporting accidents and dealing with difficulties. The perfect and imperfect contrasted.
: Quinzième unité
: Accommodation problems. Saying what has happened. Pros and cons of forms of transport. More perfect and imperfect tenses. The perfect passive.
: Seizième unité
: Saying what you would like to do. The conditional tense and some uses of the subjunctive.
: Dix-septième unité
: Cars. Medical problems. The pluperfect and conditional perfect.
: Dix-huitième unité
: French history and culture. Writing an extended narrative. The past historic. More use of the passive.
: Grammaire
