Encore Intermediate French, Student Edition: Niveau intermediaire [Paperback]

ENCORE is an intermediate-level proficiency- and communicative-oriented program. Paired with an engaging mystery and suspense film of the same name, ENCORE is guided by principles of communicative language teaching and research in second language acquisition. Topics and activities are designed to engage students in higher-level thinking while at the same time providing focused work on aspects of language that instructors in a second-year college-level French course expect to find.CHAPITRE PR?LIMINAIRE: PREMI?RES RENCONTRES. Vocabulaire: Nos amis francophones; Premi?res impressions. Grammaire: Idiomatic expressions with ?tre and avoir; futur proche; present tense of stem-changing verbs; depuis; the imperative. 1. LES SYMBOLES. Vocabulaire: La fleur de lys; graffiti, tag, tatouages, henna. Grammaire: The present tense of the irregular verbs offrir, plaire, soutenir, construire, servir; Definite, indefinite, and partitive articles; Pronominal verbs: reflexive, reciprocal, and idiomatic; sagir de. Les cultures francophones: Que signifie la Tour Eiffel?; Le tatouage des ?les Marquises. Lecture: Calligrammes, Guillaume Apollinaire (poems). 2. LES VALEURS. Vocabulaire: Quelques valeurs du monde francophone; poser des questions sur des valeurs, cest une bonne id?e? Grammaire: Prepositions of location and for modes of transportation; the pronoun y; interrogative adverbs; the interrogative adjective quel; Interrogative pronouns. Les cultures francophones: Le Qu?bec chante ses valeurs; Zachary Richard chante les valeurs des Am?riques. Lecture: Les filles de Caleb, Arlette Cousture (excerpt from a novel). 3. LA FAMILLE. Vocabulaire: La famille fran?aise en pleine ?volution; Linfluence de la famille sur qui nous sommes. Grammaire: Possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns; agreement and position of irregular adjectives; pronominal adjectives; le pass? compos? with avoir and ?tre (including irregular past participles and reflexive verbs). Les cultures francophones: Vie de lӚ