Eliane Kurbegov - Practice Makes Perfect: Basic French

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Congratulations! You have chosen Practice Makes Perfect: Basic French for your first year of French language learning. This highly useful book is well suited for middle or high school French students to accompany a first-year textbook, or as a review book at the end of a first year or beginning second-year French course. It can also be used as a supplement to a face-to-face or online French course. Whatever your situation, you will be happy to own this book to practice basic first-year vocabulary, verb tenses, and sentence structures.

As vocabulary acquisition is an ongoing process dictated by student interest, it is important to understand that the focus of this basic book is limited to high frequency vocabulary. How well students will be able to venture into thematic and contextualized reading materials depends on how well they have mastered the essential structures and concepts introduced in this book. For the most part, basic grammar is presented in user-friendly charts as preparation for the material in the exercises. The tenses practiced in this book are the present, the near future, the near past, and the pass compos. We find this to be ample material for a first-year or a beginning second-year middle or high school student. Adjectives, prepositions, and object pronouns presented in their lexical and grammatical functions are also important parts of this book.

With Basic French learning French is made easy because the material is presented in simple charts. It remains user friendly while building from very simple to more complex. In addition, the material offers many opportunities to reinforce and review basic grammatical concepts, while recycling and expanding on everyday words and phrases. The ten units and fifty lessons in this book are presented in a simple and progressive format designed to help students learn, review, and retain knowledge of basic vocabulary and grammatical structures. Each set of five chapters in a unit is followed by a review section. The numerous exercises in the chapters and review sections are accompanied by an Answer Key at the end of the book.

And this Premium Second Edition offers streaming audio recordings of the answers to numerous exercises, allowing you to compare your responses and pronunciation against native speakers. For pleasure reading, we have included Fun Facts throughout the book; try to read them for fun and understand them on your own. So that you may check how much and how well you understood, they are translated in the Answer Key. It is time to start the adventure! Bonne chance et bon voyage!

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Grammar Definite articles Indefinite articles Jai and je veuxIl y a and il ny a pas Subject pronouns Conjugation of regular -er verbs Vocabulary Family members Around the house Animals The classroom A few -er verbs Days of the week Fun facts Famous families Famous houses Animals in comic books and storybooks The story of Babar La tlvision The days of the week NOTEZ The definite article appears more frequently in French than in English before a noun, for example, in abstractions and generalizations as in the following sentences. VOCABULAIRE Les membres de la famille (Family members) EXERCICE 1.1Traduisez! (Translate!) the father ___________________ the mother ___________________ the parents ___________________ the fathers ___________________ the mothers ___________________ the boy ___________________ the girl ___________________ the boys ___________________ the girls ___________________ the son ___________________ the daughters ___________________ the brothers ___________________ the grandmother ___________________ the cousins (