Pas de Probleme: Student Book

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ISBN: 9780340807286 | 0340807288
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Copyright: 6/27/2003

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This is a new language book aimed at young adult learners. It offers a two-track approach: flexible tutor-led activities for use in class together with user-friendly activities for private study. Combining lively content with clear grammatical explanations, these courses are suitable for all adults, whether they are studying as non-specialists at university or in adult education or evening classes. The course provides enough material for 24 weeks of study, and assumes a weekly pace of 2 hours in class and 2 hours at home. The course comes with audio tapes containing listening activities for self-study.

Preface

vii

Chapitre 1 Getting to know France. Describing people, places work and study.

(17)

Asking questions and saying no. Listening and extracting relevant information.

Gender rules: le, la, les, un, une, des, du, de la, des (articles). Adjectives, (agreement and position). Mon, ma, mes, etc. (possessive adjectives). How to ask questions. Ne ... pas (negatives). Verbs: regular present tense.

Assignment: book or web-based research activity to describe a place or university.

Un coup d'oeil sur... La Normandie.

Chapitre 2 Dealing with health issues. Talking about daily life.

(20)

Saying how long, when and where.

Present tense of verbs other than -er verbs. Reflexive verbs. Present tense to express the future. Aller, faire, devoir, vouloir, pouvoir, savoir/connaitre. Irregular adjectives. Depuis, depuis quand, pendant.

Assignment: talking and writing about health problems.

Un coup d'oeil sur ... L'Auvergne.

Chapitre 3 Understanding and explaining procedures.

(20)

Following and describing recipes and experiments.

Giving orders. Pronouns. Other negatives. Prendre, dire, venir, mettre. Quel and qu'est-ce que.

Assignment: giving instructions and describing recipes.

Un coup d'oeil sur ... La Provence

Chapitre 4 Expressing the past (1). Living and working abroad.

(22)

Practical life and everyday situations.

The perfect tense with avoir. Comparatives and superlatives (more and the most) Lequel (which).

Assignment: learning to translate and interpret.

Un coup d'oeil sur ... La Bretagne.

Chapitre 5 Word games. Charades. Jokes. Cards and chess games.

(16)

General knowledge quiz. Quiz on France.

No new grammar: revision and practice.

Aspects of life in France: weddings and other invitations. Telephone calls.

Complaints.

Chapitre 6 Describing events in the past (2).

Reporting on events.

(16)

Life torics, biographies and histories. The cinema. The perfect tense with être. Y and en (pronouns). Celui, celle, ceux, ceci, cela, ça (demonstrative pronouns)

Assignment: writing biographical notes and presenting them.

Un coup d'oeil sur ... La Suisse romande.

Chapitre 7 Technology and science. Describing how things were or used to be (3).

112

(17)

Making suggestions. Saying how something was done.

The imperfect tense. Qui, que, dont, ce qui, ce que, ce dont. The passive.

Assignment: presenting an invention

Un coup d'oeil sur ... Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Chapitre 8 Describing accidents and incidents in the past (4).

129

(17)

Asking for and giving information. Writing summaries and reports. Road safety.

Use of the perfect and imperfect tenses in conjunction. Bringing and taking.

Assignment: completion of an accident form and writing a witness statement.

Un coup d'oeil sur ... Le phénomène Eiffel.

Chapitre 9 Describing events in the past (5).

146

(14)

Defending a position. Dealing with officials.

Further strategies for describing the past. 'En train de ...' and 'Venir de ...' . The pluperfect tense.

Assignment: writing a statement describing an incident.

Un coup d'oeil sur ... Un mystère à Versailles.

Chapitre 10 Personal and work relationships. Becoming familiar with idiomatic expressions. Games.

160

(12)

No new grammar: revision and consolidation. Extended reading.

Aspects of life in France: a Breton legend.

Un coup d'oeil sur ... Le Futuroscope

Chapitre 11 The French way of life and French customs. Describing what will happen.

172

(18)

Talking about future plans, dreams and inventions. Aspects of French higher education (Grandes Écoles, etc.)

The future and future perfect tenses. The present participle with 'en'.

Assignment: writing a letter organising a sponsored trip to France.

Un coup d'oeil sur ... Toute la France

Chapitre 12 Discussing the environment. Writing formal letters. Making hypotheses.

190

(14)

The conditional tense. The conditional perfect tense.

Assignment: writing a formal letter requesting work experience.

Un coup d'oeil sur ... La marée noire.

A survival guide to past participles.

204

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