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A New Edition of a Dynamic Series for your Intermediate
French course!
The Collage
Program offers the most complete package for the intermediate French course.
Coordinated by theme, grammar, and vocabulary, Collage consists of 3
main texts and a workbook and laboratory manual. The component structure of
the series offers instructors a program with greater variety and flexibility
than is possible with a single textbook.
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Révision
de grammaire is the pivotal
element of the program. This all-French grammar text reviews essential first-year
structures and introduces new second-year topics and vocabulary. Students are
encouraged to work in partner/pair and small group activities in addition.
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Variétés
culturelles provides a rich collection
of authentic readings from magazines, newspapers, and books. Variétés culturelles
invites students to explore the culture, history, and traditions of France and
the Francophone world. In the fifth edition, fifteen of the readings are new.
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Lectures
littéraires includes poetry, short
stories, and excerpts from dramatic works taken from a variety of periods and
Francophone regions. In the fifth edition, six of the readings are new. All
were chosen with the hope that students would find them thought-provoking and
enjoyable.
New
to this edition—exciting technologies:
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Sans-faute
CD-ROM—This interactive writing software
offers students: a high performance search engine, a word processor, and a comprehensive
French-English dictionary with definitions to over 250,000 indexed terms, words,
and phrases. Sans-faute can be packaged with any of the Collage volumes,
or sold separately.
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Ultra lingua CD-ROM—This
is a thorough yet compact French-English Dictionary. It contains 250,000 indexed
terms, hints for usage, phrases, technical terms, slang words, and proverbs.
Ultra lingua can also be packaged with any of the Collage volumes,
or sold separately.
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Collage Website (you
are there now!) Linked to the texts and geared at both students and instructors
alike, the Collage website includes: activities, questions, and exercises
about topics found within the chapter themes. It also is accompanied by links
to websites from around the Francophone world.
Also available: Workbook/Laboratory Manual, Student Audio
Cassette/CD Program, Adopter’s audio Cassette/CD Program, Instructor’s Manual,
Video, Audioscript.
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