The main objective of A votre tour! is to advance students to a level at which they can comfortably express themselves on a variety of French and francophone topics. Avoiding the excessive rigor of most intermediate texts, A votre tour! immerses students in authentic language and cultural contexts to achieve three key objectives: to build and reinforce oral and written communicative skills, to develop reading skills and cultural awareness, and to forge a strong linguistic base.
- New! Tete a; tete communicative activities require one student to use communicative skills to elicit unknown details from another student in order to complete a task, with basic vocabulary and grammar structures recycled to reinforce previously learned material.
- New! Integrated video correlates to the Francais Pratique section of each unit and to corresponding video activities provided in the Student Activities Manual.
- New! Updated cultural material highlights recent cultural trends, such as prices expressed in euros, French phone numbers with appropriate area codes; reflects the current political realities; and offers many entry points for further development of cultural awareness, grammar, and lexical points.
- A broad introduction to French and Francophone cultures provides authentic language and cultural contexts without an intense grammar curriculum?adapted for students who might take French as a minor, rather than a major.
- Accessible presentation enables students with basic conversational and grammar skills to achieve success through careful pacing, cyclical review and re-entry of structures and vocabulary, and engaging conversational material.
- Solid grammar review builds a framework by first covering basic structures and expressions, then adding more advanced concepts to expand students' linguistic abilities.
