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Impression number 10987654321 Year 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 introduction 01 02 V'Hexagone 1 some basic facts about France * describing people * learning how to give and ask for information language points: some, for, since, still and always © verb groups * moods and tenses «the present mythes et réalités 25 telephone calls * making statements and asking questions * expressing various degrees of agreement and disagreement * the fate of Concorde language points: the various uses of the present tense * prepositions * the tu and vous forms * prepositional pronouns (moi, toi autrefois et aujourd’hui 46 a glimpse of history through the works of the Poet Victor Hugo ¢ talking about the past and the present with a café owner exploring the world of wines and food Janguage points: the imperfect * simple and compound tenses: when to use avoir and étre * how to use the perfect tense * demonstratives * the mystery of the aspirated h* c’est and Il est. les voyages forment la jeunesse val basic facts about the French education $]U9}U09/ =07 system * analysing a dialogue between a teacher and a student * non-standard forms of speech * checking the grammatical accuracy of a postcard message language points: immediate past and immediate future * the agreement rules « the position of adjectives and adverbs in the sentence « the Possessives ¢ active and passive voices si jeunesse savait ... 95 styles and registers * decoding verlan (backslang) * the May 68 ‘revolution’ and the rise of young consumers since the seventies language points: direct and indirect object complements ¢ past participle agreements with 6tre and avoir * pronominal / reflexive verbs * the pluperfect les grands départs 117 second encounter with Victor Hugo * a weather forecast * making holiday plans a ‘phone-in’ radio programme + government policy on road Safety * bison fité (cunning buffalo) language points: the future and future perfect * indefinite and negative phrases « interrogative Pronouns direct and indirect speech * comparisons préparatifs 143 an official phone call * passports « completing forms * composing letters appropriate to a range of purposes « red tape language points: relative pronouns « the conditional (present and perfect) « the three ‘si’ * modal auxiliaries au travail! 163 more about France: its population and its economy * business vocabulary and concepts * the French way of dealing with figures and Capitalization * buying property * deciphering a political speech + French trade unions Janguage points: en fait and en effet « prefixes and suffixes + the infinitive perfect * the present continuous 10 un coin de paradis 187 a regional recipe * the Sud-ouest and Villeneuve * comparing ‘for sale’ properties language points: expressing orders, wishes, doubt ... (the subjunctive, the imperative and the infinitive) * avoiding the subjunctive * adverbs of manner * another way of expressing the passive * conjunctions * using the pronouns en and y liberté, égalité, solidarité 212 Creating a biography « the Declaration of Rights (1789) * the New Year's address to the nation from the President of the Republic ¢ General de Gaulle and the Algerian crisis /anguage points: the past definite « what happens when two verbs follow each other » how to say nobody, no one, none, nothing * another look at the present participle « refining your use of the subjunctive * how to say having done, etc. * more on giving orders key to the exercises 239 appendices 1 ‘false friends’ * 2 Franglais * 3 vocabulary development * 4 grammar *5 the gender of nouns * 6 the sounds of French 272 self-assessment record form 293 French-English vocabulary 295 index of language points 307