McGraw-Hill Education Ensuite: Cours intermédiaire de français (Student Edition)

A single-volume intermediate French program, Ensuite places readings at the core of each chapter. The readings, both literary excerpts and articles from journals and magazines, serve as the basis for each chapter's vocabulary development, grammar, and many of the communicative activities. The real-life materials are interesting to students and effective for building language skills. Reading strategies help students understand the most important aspects of the readings. Pair and group activities, integrated within the grammar sections, encourage meaningful conversation. From the Publisher New chapter openers introduce students to the cultural topics and grammar points to be discussed in each chapter. Additional vocabulary appears in each chapter to reflect the innovative developments in technology and the impact of shifting cultural interests that affect French and francophone societies. New pre-reading activities - Culture et contexte and Stratégies de lecture - accompany each reading. Updated readings and realia provide students with information concerning the recent changes in the European monetary unit and contemporary cultural and social issues. Newly revised communicative activities offer students new topics to develop and explore in class discussions. A brand new text-specific Website enables students to learn more about the history, literature and culture of the French-speaking world. A newly revised Testing Program provides instructors with updated testing materials that incorporate the changes in scope in the fourth edition of Ensuite. Every unit and chapter has been constructed around a set of proficiency functions (asking questions, narrating, describing, etc.) that are spiraled throughout the text, giving additional practice to the more frequent functions. The functions are sequenced according to the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines. Authentic materials are used to practice all four skills - reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Grammar explanations are in English, followed by a number of contextualized exercises for student practice. Material is recycled to allow for additional practice. Communicative activities - many based on realia - are designed to help students work together cooperatively in class. About the Author Chantal Péron Thompson is a native of Quimper (France). She holds a degree in French, English, and Russian from the Université de Rennes, and an MA from Brigham Young University. She has taught French language and literature at all levels, and currently directs the first- and second-year French programs at Brigham Young University. She is a certified ACTFL Oral Proficiency Tester and Trainer, and conducts workshops nationwide on teaching and testing for proficiency.