Cengage Advantage: Horizons, Worktext Chapters P-5 by Stuart Smith

Cengage Advantage: Horizons, Worktext Chapters P-5 by Stuart Smith

"Horizons" is a complete elementary French program that makes learning French easier through its step-by-step skill-building methodology, flexible and accessible approach to grammar and new vocabulary, and creative and sophisticated coverage of Francophone culture. Through varied interactive activities and clear grammar explanations, the text helps students communicate effectively in French while culturally connecting them to the Francophone world. "Horizons" features a clear, easy-to-follow structure that is ideal for instructors with any level of teaching experience. "Horizons" carefully guides students Competence by Competence, through their first year of elementary French. The Worktext version of "Horizons, 5th Edition Volume 1" includes the complete front matter and back matter plus Textbook Chapters P-5 PLUS SAM Chapters P-5 in one convenient paperbound volume. Volume 2 also includes the complete front matter and back matter plus Textbook Chapters 5-R PLUS SAM Chapters 5-R.

Part I: LE MONDE FRANCOPHONECHAPITRE preliminaire: On commence! Regional Focus: Le monde francophone. Competence 1. Greeting people. Les formules de politesse.Les salutations familieres. Competence 2. Counting and describing your week. Les chiffres de zero a trente. Les jours de la semaine. Competence 3. Talking about yourself and your schedule. Un autoportrait. L'heure. Competence 4. Communicating in class. En cours. Des expressions utiles et l'alphabet. Competence 5. L'heure officielle. Part II: SUR LA COTE D'AZUR. 1. A l'universite. Regional Focus: La France et ses regions. Competence 1: Identifying people and describing appearance. Les gens a l'universite. Identifying and describing people. Les adjectifs et il est / elle est + adjectif ou c'est + nom. Strategies et Lecture: Pour mieux lire: Using cognates and familiar words to read for the gist. Lecture: Qui est-ce? Competence 2: Describing personality. Les personnalites. Describing people. Les pronoms sujets, le verbe etre, la negation et d'autres adjectifs. Asking what someone is like. Les questions.Competence 3: Describing the university area. Le campus et le quartier. Saying what there is Le genre, l'article indefini et l'expression il y a. Identifying and describing people and things. C'est ou il est / elle est et la place de l'adjectif. Competence 4: Talking about your studies. L'universite et les cours. Identifying people and things. L'article define. REPRISE: Les Stagiaires: Episode 1 Comment sont-ils? LECTURE ET COMPOSITION: Pour mieux lire: Scanning to preview a text. Lecture: L'accent grave. Pour mieux ecrire: Using and combining what you know. Composition: Un autoportrait. COMPARAISONS CULTURELLES: Les etudes. RESUME DE GRAMMAIRE. VOCABULAIRE 2. Apres les cours. Regional Focus: Nice. Competence 1: Saying what you like to do. Les passe-temps. Saying what you like to do. L'infinitif. Strategies et Comprehension auditive: Pour mieux comprendre: Listening for specific information. Comprehension auditive: On sort ensemble? Competence 2: Saying how you spend your free time. Le week-end. Telling what you do, how often, and how well. Les verbes en -er et les adverbes. Telling what you do. Quelques verbes a changements orthographiques. Competence 3: Asking about someone's day.La journee. Asking for information. Les mots interrogatifs. Asking questions. Les questions par inversion. Competence 4: Going to the cafe. Au cafe. Paying the bill. Les chiffres de trente a cent et l'argent. REPRISE: Les Stagiaires: Episode 2 Elle est belle, non? LECTURE ET COMPOSITION: Pour mieux lire: Making intelligent guesses. Lecture: Aux Trois Obus. Pour mieux ecrire: Using logical order and standard phrases. Composition: Au cafe. COMPARAISONS CULTURELLES: Le cafe et le fast-food. RESUME DE GRAMMAIRE. VOCABULAIRE. INTERLUDE MUSICAL: Quand l'humain danse (Maurane), Chantez, chantez (Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia). Part III: EN AMERIQUE. 3. Un nouvel appartement. Regional focus: En Amerique: Le Quebec. Competence 1: Talking about where you live. Le logement. Giving prices and other numerical information. Les chiffres au-dessus de 100 et les nombres ordinaux. Strategies et Lecture: Pour mieux lire: Guessing meaning from context. Lecture: Un nouvel appartement. Competence 2: Talking about your possessions. Les effets personnels. Saying what you have. Le verbe avoir. Saying where something is. Quelques prepositions. Competence 3: Describing your room. Les meubles et les couleurs. Identifying your belongings. La possession et les adjectifs possessifs mon, ton et son. Indicating to whom something belongs. Les adjectifs possessifs notre, votre et leur Competence 4: Giving your address and phone number. Des renseignements. Telling which one. Les adjectifs quel et ce. REPRISE: Les Stagiaires: Episode 3 Tu cherches un appartement? LECTURE ET COMPOSITION: Pour mieux lire: Previewing content. Lecture: Les couleurs et leurs effets sur la nature humaine. Pour mieux ecrire: Brainstorming. Composition: Une letter. COMPARAISONS CULTURELLES: Le Quebec d'aujourd'hui. RESUME DE GRAMMAIRE. VOCABULAIRE. 4. En famille. Regional focus: En Amerique: La Louisiane. Competence 1: Describing your family. Ma famille. Describing feelings and appearance. Les expressions avec avoir. Strategies et Comprehension auditive: Pour mieux comprendre: Asking for clarification. Comprehension auditive: La famille de Robert. Competence 2: Saying where you go in your free time. Le temps libre. Saying where you are going. Le verbe aller, la preposition a et le pronom y. Suggesting activities and telling people what to do. Le pronom sujet on et l'imperatif Competence 3: Saying what you are going to do. Le week-end prochain. Saying what you are going to do. Le futur immediat. Saying when you are going to do something. Les dates Competence 4: Planning how to get there. Les moyens de transport. Deciding how to get there and come back. Les verbes prendre et venir et les moyens de transport REPRISE: Les Stagiaires: Episode 4 Vive la famille! LECTURE ET COMPOSITION: Pour mieux lire: Using word families. Lecture: Coeur des Cajuns. Pour mieux ecrire: Visualizing your topic. Composition: Ma famille. COPARAISONS CULTURELLES: L'histoire des Cadiens RESUME DE GRAMMAIRE. VOCABULAIRE. INTERLUDE MUSICAL: Nonc Willie (Bruce Daigrepont), J'ai besoin d'un chum (Diane Dufresne). Part IV: A PARIS. 5. Les projets. Regional focus: La France. Competence 1: Saying what you did. Le week-end dernier. Saying what you did. Le passe compose avec avoir. Strategies et Lecture: Pour mieux lire: Using the sequence of events to make logical guesses. Lecture: Qu'est-ce qu'elle a fait? Competence 2: Telling where you went. Je suis parti(e) en voyage. Telling where you went Le passe compose avec etre. Telling when you did something. Les expressions qui designent le passe et reprise du passe compose. Competence 3: Discussing the weather and your activities. Le temps et les projets. Talking about the weather and what you do. Le verbe faire, l'expression ne... rien et les expressions pour decrire le temps. Talking about activities. Les expressions avec faire. Competence 4: Deciding what to wear and buying clothes. Les vetements. Avoiding repetition. Les pronoms le, la, l' et les REPRISE: Les Stagiaires: Episode 5 Qu'est-ce que vous avez fait? LECTURE ET COMPOSITION: Pour mieux lire: Guessing meaning from context. Lecture: Je blogue donc je suis. Pour mieux ecrire: Using visuals to make guesses. Composition: Un voyage en France. COMPARAISONS CULTURELLES: Les loisirs des Francais. RESUME DE GRAMMAIRE VOCABULAIRE. Bienvenue en Europe francophone. Appendice A: L'alphabet phonetique. Appendice B: Tableau des verbes. Vocabulaire francais-anglais. Vocabulaire anglais-francais. Index.

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ISBN 13	9780495912828
ISBN 10	0495912824
Title	Cengage Advantage: Horizons, Worktext Chapters P-5
Author	Stuart Smith
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cengage Learning, Inc
Year published	2011-02-11
Number of pages	432
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