Synopses & Reviews
HORIZONS makes learning French easier through its step-by-step, skill building approach to the communicative classroom. Through interactive, varied activities and clear grammar explanations, students are able to communicate effectively in French while culturally connecting themselves to the Francophone world.
Review
"The cultural, statistical, and vocabulary updates are extremely helpful to teachers who are not always able to stay up on all the new terms in the fast changing French and Francophone societyàthese changes have been made painstakingly throughout the text, and are much appreciated."
About the Author
Joan Manley is Professor Emeritus from the University of Texas at El Paso. During her 33 years as a faculty member, she gave over 100 workshops and conference presentations and authored 50 journal articles. She was a trainer and tester of the Oral Proficiency Interview, which led to the current emphasis on skill building and proficiency as exemplified in teaching programs such as HORIZONS.Stuart Smith received her degrees and her first training and experience in teaching at the University of Texas at Austin. She has been teaching at Austin Community College since 1981 and has been authoring foreign language textbook and textbook materials since 1986.John McMinn is Professor of French and Spanish at Austin Community College, where he has taught since 1986. After doing graduate studies in Romance Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin, he also worked as an editor of high school and college-level language books. In addition to HORIZONS, he is coauthor of two Spanish textbooks.Marc André Prévost received his degrees from The University of Texas at Austin. He taught seven years at The University of Texas at Austin and has been a professor at Austin Community College since 1993. He has coauthored foreign language textbooks since 1986.
Table of Contents
1. L'UNIVERSIT. Regional focus: La France et ses régions. Compétence 1: Identifying people and describing appearance. Vocabulary: presenting someone, adjectives of physical appearance. C'est et il est et les adjectifs. Stratégies et lecture: Using cognates and familiar words to read for the gist. Lecture: Qui est-ce?. Compétence 2: Describing personality. Vocabulary: adjectives of personality. Les pronoms sujets, le verbe tre, la négation et d'autres adjectifs. Les questions. Compétence 3: Describing the university area. Vocabulary: places on and near campus. Le genre, l'article indéfini et il y a. C'est ou il. elle est et la place de l'adjectif. Compétence 4: Talking about your studies. Vocabulary: things at the university, course names. L'article défini. 2. APRS LES COURS. Regional focus: Nice. Compétence 1: Saying what you like to do. Vocabulary: leisure activities. L'infinitif. Stratégies et compréhension auditive: Listening for specific information. Conversation: On sort ensemble?. Compétence 2: Saying how you spend your free time. Vocabulary: activities (-er verbs) and adverbs. Les verbes en & er et les adverbes. Quelques verbes à changements orthographiques (Include accent spelling change, -cer and -ger.). Compétence 3: Asking about someone's day. Vocabulary: question words, expressions of time, place, etc. Les mots interrogatifs. Les questions par inversion. Compétence 4: Going to the café. Vocabulary: café food and drinks, prices. Les chiffres de trente à cent et l'argent franais. 3. UN NOUVEL APPARTEMENT. Regional focus: Le Québec. Compétence 1: Talking about where you live. Vocabulary: describing home, counting floors. Les chiffres au-dessus de cent et les chiffres ordinaux. Stratégies et lecture: Guessing meaning from context. Lecture: On cherche un nouvel appartment. Compétence 2: Talking about your possessions. Vocabulary: common possessions, rooms, furniture. Le verbe avoir. Quelques prepositions (sur, sous, à coté de, etc.). Compétence 3: Describing your room. Vocabulary: bedroom furniture and colors. Les adjectifs possessifs mon, ton et son (possession with de). Les adjectifs possessifs notre, votre et leur. Compétence 4: Giving your address and phone number. Vocabulary: personal information. Quel et ce. 4. EN FAMILLE. Regional focus: La Louisiane. Compétence 1: Describing your family. Vocabulary: family members, expressions with avoir. Les expressions avec avoir. Stratégies et compréhension auditive: Asking for clarification. Conversation: Ma famille. Compétence 2: Saying where you go in your free time.Vocabulary: places around town. Le verbe aller, la préposition à et le pronom y. Le pronom sujet on et l'impératif. Compétence 3: Saying what you are going to do. Vocabulary: leisure activities. Le futur immédiat. La date. Compétence 4: Planning how to get there. Vocabulary: means of transportation. Le verbe prendre. 5. LE WEEK-END. Regional focus: La France. Compétence 1: Deciding what to wear and buying clothes. Vocabulary: clothing. Les pronoms compléments d'objet direct le, la, l', les. Stratégies et lecture: Using sequence of events to make logical guesses. Lecture: Qu'est-ce qu'elle a fait?. Compétence 2: Discussing the weather and what to do. Vocabulary: weather and expressions with faire. Le temps et le verbe faire. Les expressions avec faire et quelques expressions négatives. Compétence 3: Saying what you did. Vocabulary: yesterday's activities. Le passé composé avec avoir. Les expressions qui désignent le passé et reprise du passé composé. Compétence 4: Telling where you went. Vocabulary: a weekend trip. Le passé composé avec tre. 6. LES SORTIES. Regional focus: Paris. Compétence 1: Inviting someone to go out. Vocabulary: useful expressions for inviting, accepting, declining. Les verbes vouloir, pouvoir et devoir. Stratégies et compréhension auditive: Noting the important information. Conversation: On va au cinéma?. Compétence 2: Talking about how you used to spend your time. Vocabulary: high school activities vs. college activities. Les verbes sortir, partir, dormir. L'imparfait: formation. Compétence 3: Talking about the past. Vocabulary: going out. Le passé composé et l'imparfait. Le passé composé et l'imparfait (reprise). Compétence 4: Narrating in the past. Vocabulary: fairy tales. Le passé composé et l'imparfait: narrating in the past (reprise). 7. LA VIE QUOTIDIENNE. Regional Focus: La France et sa diversité. Compétence 1: Describing your daily routine. Vocabulary: reflexive verbs. Les verbes réfléchis (present tense and spelling change verbs (includes -yer). Stratégies et lecture: Using word families and watching out for faux amis. Lecture: Il n'est jamais trop tard!. Compétence 2: Talking about relationships. Vocabulary: reciprocal verbs and words describing relationships. Les verbes réciproques et les verbes réfléchis et réciproques au immédiat. Les verbes en -re. Compétence 3: Talking about what you did and used to do. Vocabulary: reflexive and reciprocal verbs in past tenses. Les verbes réfléchis et réciproques au passé composé. Les verbes réfléchis au passé composé et à l'imparfait. Compétence 4: Saying what you just did. Vocabulary: errands. Le verbe venir et le passé immédiat. 8. LA BONNE CUISINE. Regional focus: La Normandie. Compétence 1: Ordering at a restaurant. Vocabulary: food and restaurant. Le partitif. Stratégies et compréhension auditive: Planning and predicting. Conversation: Au restaurant. Compétence 2: Buying food. Vocabulary: food and food shopping. Les expressions de quantité. L'usage des articles définis, indéfinis et partitifs. Compétence 3: Talking about meals. Vocabulary: meals. Le pronom en et le verbe boire. Les verbes en & ir. Compétence 4: Deciding on a healthy lifestyle. Vocabulary: eating and staying healthy. Le conditionnel. 9. EN VACANCES. Regional focus: L'Afrique francophone. Compétence 1: Talking about vacation. Vocabulary: vacation options and activities. Le futur Stratégies et lecture: Distinguishing future and conditional. Lecture: Une lettre de Coted'Ivoire. Compétence 2: Buying a ticket. Vocabulary: at the travel agency. Savoir et connatre, reprise des pronoms complément d'objet direct. Les pronoms me, te, nous, vous. Compétence 3: Preparing for a trip. Vocabulary: preparations for vacation. Les verbes dire, lire et écrire. Les pronoms compléments d'objet indirect. Compétence 4: Deciding where to go next. Vocabulary: geographical places. Les expressions géographiques. 10. L'HTEL. Regional focus: La Cote-d'Ivoire. Compétence 1: Checking in at the hotel. Vocabulary: hotel. Les pronoms relatifs qui et que. Stratégies et compréhension auditive: Anticipating a response. Conversation: la réception. Compétence 2: Giving advice. Vocabulary: travel suggestions. Les expressions impersonnelles et les verbes réguliers au subjonctif. Encore des verbe au subjonctif (regular, but with two stems). Compétence 3: Saying how you feel. Vocabulary: health. La volonté et les emotions, les verbes irréguliers au subjonctif. L'indicatif ou le subjonctif? Compétence 4: Giving directions. Vocabulary: asking for and giving directions. L'impératif (reprise [taught in Ch. 4]). CHAPITRE DE RVISION: UN DRLE DE MYSTRE. Regional focus: La Belgique.