Now you can review the fundamentals of the French language within a meaningful context and expand your abilities as SUR LE VIF: NIVEAU INTERMEDIERE, 7E adds just enough new material to refine your reading, listening, writing and conversational skills without overwhelming you. This guide to intermediate French offers the ideal bridge between introductory French and specialized studies of culture, conversation, literature or writing.
Nine brief but powerful chapters offer new and lengthened readings, themed writing practice and updated cultural notes. This edition and MindTap digital resources provide updated vocabulary and interactive grammar assignments to check your comprehension. Songs, videos, new content and more listening practice enhance your ability to comprehend spoken French and be easily understood in conversation. By weaving grammar review into thought-provoking chapter themes, this edition reinforces understanding while preparing you to use the language in more complex communication.
PRÉLUDE: Le français dans le monde.
LECTURE: Lynda Lemay: "Les maudits Français".
1. Les Etudes.
VOCABULAIRE: les lieux, les gens, les choses, les activités; LECTURES: Faïza
Guène: Kiffe kiffe demain; Les études de Léa aux Etats-Unis; STRUCTURES: Verb
review: payer, s'ennuyer; Present indicative; Infinitives; Imperatives; Faire
causatif..
2. Les Jeunes.
VOCABULAIRE: les vêtements et les accessoires, les activités et les
passe-temps quotidiens; LECTURES: Service civique; David Foenkinos: La
délicatesse ; STRUCTURES: Verb review: décrire, s'asseoir; Descriptive
adjectives; Comparative and superlative of adjectives; Tout; Interrogatives;
Il (Elle) est vs. C'est.
3. Les Immigrés.
VOCABULAIRE: Présent ou passé?, l'immigration, questions sociales, la vie
active; LECTURES: Francis Bebey: A la recherche d'un travail; J.M.G. Le
Clézio: Printemps. STRUCTURES: Verb review: accueillir, mourir; Imperfect
(Imparfait); Passé composé vs. imperfect; Pluperfect (Plus-que-parfait); Past
infinitives; Le mot juste: manquer à, rendre, partir, sortir, quitter.
INTERLUDE 1: M. Boulot .
LECTURE: Eric Frasiak, « M. Bulot »
4. En Route!
VOCABULAIRE: les moyens de transport, les gens qui se déplacent, le
déplacement, les activités, les problèmes et les solutions; LECTURES:Ville de
Paris : Fernand Raynaud: La 2 CV de ma sur STRUCTURES: Verb review:
conduire, mettre; Articles; Object pronouns, y and en; Order of pronouns;
Disjunctive pronouns; Le mot juste: se moquer de.
5. Les Voyages.
VOCABULAIRE: pourquoi?, comment?, où?, quoi?; LECTURES: Marcel Pagnol: Le
château de ma mère; Didier Tilman: Voyage autour du monde; trois ans de
vagabondage; STRUCTURES: Verb review: Verbs in -ger, prendre, découvrir;
Prepositions with geographical names; Future tense and conditional forms;
Future perfect and past conditional; If-clauses; Passé simple.
6. Ciné et Télé.
VOCABULAIRE: le cinéma, la télévision; LECTURES: Albert Robida: La
télévision--un rêve du XIXe siècle; Albert Camus: Le Premier homme;
STRUCTURES: Verb review: préférer, projeter; Negative expressions; Relative
pronouns; Le mot juste: il s'agit de.
INTERLUDE 2: Bienvenue chez moi
Lecture : Bigflo & Oli « Bienvenue chez moi »
7. Traditions.
VOCABULAIRE: les personnages, les contes; LECTURES: Jean de La Fontaine: La
Grenouille qui veut se faire aussi grosse que le Boeuf; Un conte corse: La
fleur, le miroir et le cheval. STRUCTURES: Verb review: croire; What is the
subjunctive? Formation of the subjunctive; Usage of the subjunctive.
8. En Famille.
VOCABULAIRE: la famille moderne, les amis, les rapports, des traits de
caractère, au foyer; LECTURES: Marie-Claire : Génération boomerang:
retrouver le nid familial après un premier envol;
Simone de Beauvoir: Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée; STRUCTURES: Verb
review: vivre, venir; Adverbs, Comparison of adverbs, Comparison of nouns;
Demonstrative pronouns.
9. Sans frontières.
VOCABULAIRE: le monde, l'environnement, des demarches; LECTURES: « La vanille
Esprit parc national »; « Un tour de France à vélo pour découvrir la
permaculture »
STRUCTURES: Verb review: atteindre; What is a function? Requesting
information; Hypothesizing; Describing; Expressing opinions or reactions;
Disagreeing; Narrating.
POSTLUDE: Les Cajuns.
LECTURE: Bruce Diagrepont: "Disco et fais-do-do."
Clare Tufts received her Ph.D. in French literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. She is professor of the practice emerita in the Departments of Romance Studies and Linguistics at Duke University, where she served as director of the French language program for thirty-one years. She has published articles and book chapters on language acquisition and pedagogy, the modern political theatre in France, Alfred Jarry and political propaganda in French cartoons. She authored one of the first computerized grammar tutorials (Micro-Review in French), which was published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston in 1990. Dr Tufts' current research interests include second-language acquisition and French comic art. Hannelore Jarausch received her Ph.D. in eighteenth-century French literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is teaching professor emerita in French and was director of the French language program at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she taught courses in methodology, language and literature. Dr. Jarausch has been named Foreign Language Teacher of the Year (Higher Education) in 2009-2010 by the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina. Dr. Jarausch's research interests focus on language teaching and teaching assistant training. She has presented at ACTFL, Central States and the Foreign Language Association of North Carolina.
