- Two of the twelve chapters have new themes.
- Inviting, extended captions accompanying the opening photo in all chapters address students directly and motivate them to begin each lesson communicatively from the first moment of study.
- Points de repère at the beginning of each chapter now includes communicative goals for each chapter as well as the related grammar.
- A new feature begins each grammar presentation, Que savez-vous déjà?, helps instructors and students quickly assess how much information has been retained from previous study of the chapters’ structures.
- Pour vous aider boxes in the margins of each chapter give students helpful information to improve their understanding of grammar and vocabulary items particularly confusing to English speakers at this level. These will help students do the exercises in the section in which they are found.
- Several grammar points have been moved from one chapter to another to create a clearer learning sequence.
- Exercises are more contextualized and fit more closely with the chapter theme.
- Chapter vocabulary has been updated to reflect cultural changes in French-speaking countries.
- Discutons vocabulary activity begins with a very focused, concrete question based on the chapter theme and culminates with a related, more abstract question which guides students to think critically in French.
- Six of the readings in Lectures littéraires are new, including more poetry, as requested by reviewers. Among the new authors are Guillaume Apollinaire, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas (père) (excerpt from L'homme au Masque de fer) and Jean Tardieu.
- New sidebars, Rappell, remind students of literary terms and definitions which they might need to answer questions about the readings.
- 15 of the selections in Variétés culturelles are new; they have been carefully integrated with those from the fourth edition which reviewers and students specifically asked us to retain.
- New marginal boxes in Variétés culturelles provide up-to-date facts related to the chapter theme which help
students support ideas they present in oral and written discussions of the texts presented.
- An Internet feature at the end of each chapter, Le français au bout des doigts, guides students to the McGraw-Hill website, where they will find questions and exercises about a topic found within the chapter theme. These are accompanied by the WWW links to websites from around the francophone world.
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