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 | C'est la vie!, A French Reader, 1st Edition
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 | | Evelyne Amon,
| | Softcover, 176 pages | | ©2005, ISBN-13 9780072824124 | | | Publisher's Retail Price:$35.63
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| | Bookstore's Wholesale Price:$28.50
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| | | Description |
This collection of four original short stories brings the Francophone world to life through the experiences of students and young professionals in France, Guadeloupe, Belgium, and Canada. Accompanied by activities, the stories are written specifically for high-beginner and intermediate learners of French. In each story the characters are portrayed in authentic, everyday situations and cultural settings that will pique student interest and offer a glimpse of daily life in different French-speaking countries, encouraging students to read for pleasure in French and thereby further develop their language skills.
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| Table of Contents |
Nouvelle 1: Porte ouverte (Open Door)
Intrigue: Carole Tradin, incoming law student at the Faculté de Droit, attempts to find an apartment in Paris … and the perfect roommate.
Activités pour les étudiants
A. Avez-vous compris?
B. Langage: «Le parler jeune»
C. Prenez la parole!
D. Qu’en pensez-vous?
Nouvelle 2: Tu danses? (Do you want to dance?)
Intrigue: Antoine and Magali, the perfect couple, tempted by a last-minute Internet deal, decide to spend their vacation on the beautiful island of Guadeloupe. Find out what happens to their relationship during their trip.
Activités pour les étudiants
A. Avez-vous compris?
B. Langage: «Le parler jeune»
C. Prenez la parole!
D. Qu’en pensez-vous?
Nouvelle 3: Voilà! (There it is!)
Intrigue: Mathieu Gerberon, a successful Belgian architect, tells his family an extraordinary story about his college roommate Louis Seignez, an avid book collector, and the dilemma that he faced because of his friend’s hobby.
Activités pour les étudiants
A. Avez-vous compris?
B. Langage: «Les expressions idiomatiques et les proverbes»
C. Prenez la parole!
D. Qu’en pensez-vous?
Nouvelle 4: C’est moi (It’s me)
Intrigue: Lucette Godon, an illustrator of French children’s books, who lives in Nice and Raphaël Joubert, a computer specialist from Montreal, develop their transatlantic relationship via the Internet.
Activités pour les étudiants
A. Avez-vous compris?
B. Langage: «Les expressions idiomatiques et les proverbes»
C. Prenez la parole!
D. Qu’en pensez-vous?
Notes et suggestions pour les professeurs
Vocabulaire français/anglais
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| About the Authors |
Evelyne Amon studied at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne. She holds a DEA in modern literature, a Diplôme de didactique des langues in French as a second language, and a CAPES in modern literature. She has taught French language and literature at the secondary and college levels, and for many years has led a training seminar in Switzerland for professors on advances in methodology and pedagogy. Lately, she has conducted several training sessions in teaching French as a second language for teachers at the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) in New York. As an author, she has written many reference volumes, textbooks, and academic studies for French publishers such as Larousse, Hatier, Magnard, and Bordas, and she is currently working on a project for Hachette. She is the author of the McGraw-Hill French reader C’est la vie! and has written for successive editions of Vis-à-vis. She lives in Paris and New York.
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The four short stories offer contemporary language, characters, and themes to pique student interest!
Francophone settings (France, Guadeloupe, Belgium, Canada) expand and enhance students’ cultural understanding of their French-speaking counterparts around the world.
Each story recycles first-year vocabulary and structures as it expands students’ vocabulary.
In-text glosses and a French/English dictionary included in the text facilitate students’ reading comprehension.
Each story is of manageable length (10-20 pages) to encourage pleasure reading and easy in-class use.
Activities that follow each story help students verify comprehension, stimulate class discussion and group interaction, and encourage students to respond either verbally or in writing.
A Langage section exposes students to classic slang, proverbs, and everyday language and expressions used by Francophone speakers.
A helpful resource, Notes et suggestions pour les professeurs, provides general suggestions on how to use this reader in class; background cultural notes for each story; additional in-class activities for each story; as well as suggestions for Internet activities that expand upon the cultural themes in each story.
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