Sur le vif: Niveau intermediaire / Edition 6

by Clare Tufts, Hannelore Jarausch

Overview

Designed for one-semester intermediate French programs, SUR LE VIF offers a contextualized review of the fundamentals, adding just enough new material to expand the language skills of French learners without overwhelming them. The text is divided into an in-class conversation manual and an out-of-class grammar reference, giving the flexibility to choose among readings, activities, and grammar practice to meet the varied needs of intermediate students. In nine short chapters, SUR LE VIF encompasses a full-length intermediate course with its provocative readings, active grammar review, and updated cultural notes. The program also takes into account the importance of audio and visual elements: the "Prelude" (before Chapter 1), two "Interludes" (after Chapters 3 and 6), and "Postlude" (after Chapter 9) contain new songs and follow-up activities. The accompanying video program, featured on the new Premium Website, adds a visual component. By skillfully weaving grammar review into thought-provoking chapter themes, SUR LE VIF provides a solid review of first-year French while adding refinements for improved skills in reading, listening, composition, and conversation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781133311263
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	01/15/2013
Series:	World Languages
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 9.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

PR LUDE: Le fran ais dans le monde. LECTURE: Lynda Lemay: "Les maudits Fran ais". 1. Les Etudes. VOCABULAIRE: les lieux, les gens, les choses, les activites; LECTURES: Fa za Gu ne: Kiffe kiffe demain; L'etudiant: J'ai etudie un an a Vancouver; STRUCTURES: Verb review: payer, s'ennuyer; Present indicative; Infinitives; Imperatives; Faire causative. 2. Les Jeunes. VOCABULAIRE: les v tements et les accessoires, les activites et les passe-temps quotidiens; LECTURES: Le Figaro: Les jeunes plebiscitent le service civique; Diam's: "Jeune demoiselle"; STRUCTURES: Verb review: decrire, s'asseoir; Descriptive adjectives; Comparative and superlative of adjectives; Tout; Interrogatives; Il (Elle) est vs. C'est. 3. Les Immigres. VOCABULAIRE: Present ou passe?, l'immigration, questions sociales, la vie active; LECTURES: Francis Bebey: A la recherche d'un travail; J.M.G. Le Clezio: Printemps. STRUCTURES: Verb review: accueillir, mourir; Imperfect (Imparfait); Passe compose vs. imperfect; Pluperfect (Plus-que-parfait); Past infinitives; Le mot juste: manquer a, rendre, partir, sortir, quitter. INTERLUDE 1: Loukoum et Camembert. LECTURE: Les Escrocs: "Loukoum et Camembert." 4. En Route! VOCABULAIRE: les moyens de transport, les gens qui se deplacent, le deplacement, les activites, les probl mes et les solutions; LECTURES: Le Figaro: Le service de velos en libre-service affiche un bilan mitige en 2011; Fernand Raynaud: La 2 CV de ma s ur 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?, o ?, quoi?; LECTURES: Marcel Pagnol: Le ch teau de ma m re; Didier Tilman: Voyage autour du monde; trois ans de vagabondage; STRUCTURES: Verb review: Verbs in -ger, prendre, decouvrir; Prepositions with geographical names; Future tense and conditional forms; Future perfect and past conditional; If-clauses; Passe simple. 6. Cine et Tele. VOCABULAIRE: le cinema, la television; LECTURES: Albert Robida: La television--un r ve du XIXe si cle; Albert Camus: Le Premier homme; STRUCTURES: Verb review: preferer, projeter; Negative expressions; Relative pronouns; Le mot juste: il s'agit de. INTERLUDE 2: T'etais pas ne. LECTURE: Frasiak: "T'etais pas ne." 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 caract re, au foyer; LECTURES: Femme Magazine: "Generation Tanguy" ou l'independance tardive ; Simone de Beauvoir: Memoires d'une jeune fille rangee; STRUCTURES: Verb review: vivre, venir; Adverbs, Comparison of adverbs, Comparison of nouns; Demonstrative pronouns. 9. Sans Frontiers. VOCABULAIRE: le monde, l'environnement, des demarches; LECTURES: Pierre Perret: "Je suis vert de col re"; Terre de liens: Deux jeunes agriculteurs; 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."