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Chapter 1 On Vous Presente a la Langue Francaise: Getting Acquainted with the French Language 1 -- French is no stranger -- French and English vocabulary: similarities and differences in spelling, meaning, and pronunciation -- French is spoken around the world -- Chapter 2 Prononciation du Francais: French Pronunciation 4 -- French vowel sounds in familiar words -- Nasal vowel sounds -- French consonants -- Liaison -- Elision -- Stress in French words and sentences -- Useful words and expressions for the traveler -- Chapter 3 Qui Est Monsieur Brown?: Who is Mr. Brown? 15 -- Members of the family -- Rooms of the house -- Gender of nouns -- Plural of nouns -- Definite and indefinite articles -- Some common verbs -- Chapter 4 Pourquoi Est-Ce Que M. Brown Etudie le Francais? Why is Mr. Brown Studying French? 24 -- Saying hello and good-bye in French -- More useful vocabulary: professions, nationalities, languages -- Common modifiers and verbs -- Introduction to negative and interrogative forms -- Chapter 5 Dans le Salon de Monsieur Brown: In Mr. Brown's Living Room 31 -- Furniture and objects in the living room -- Some common prepositions -- Using the contractions du, des, au, aux -- Expressing possession in French with de or a -- Revision 1 Review of Chapters 1-5 36 -- Chapter 6 Les Verbes Sont Importants Aussi: Verbs are Important too 44 -- Countries of Europe and North America -- Infinitive form of verbs -- Present tense of regular -er verbs, like parler, to speak -- Interrogative and negative forms -- Verbs like parler -- Two verbs in a row -- Chapter 7 La Famille de M. Brown: Mr. Brown's Family 52 -- French words that end in -tion and -sion -- Correspondence between the French ending -ment and the English ending -ly -- Present tense of etre, to be, avoir, to have, aller, to go -- Chapter 8 Au Bureau de M. Brown: At Mr. Brown's Office 59 -- Adjectives of color, size, beauty, and other characteristics -- Agreement of adjectives -- Position of adjectives -- tout, all, every -- quel, which, what -- Chapter 9 M. Brown Salue un Ami: Mr. Brown Greets a Friend 65 -- Present tense of regular -re verbs like vendre, to sell -- Three irregular-re verbs: prendre, to take, lire, to read, ecrire, to write -- Revision 2 Review of Chapters 6-9 71 -- Chapter 10 Dans la Salle a Manger: In the Dining Room 80 -- Table settings -- French porcelain industry -- Irregular verbs dire, to say, and voir, to see -- Demonstrative adjective ce, this, that -- Use of -ci and -la -- Use of c'est, this is, it is, instead of il est or elle est -- Chapter 11 Les Nombres, Toujours les Nombres: Numbers, Always Numbers 87 -- Basic mathematical terms -- Numbers 0-69 -- Present tense of the verbs vouloir, to want, pouvoir, to be able -- Chapter 12 Le Systeme Monetaire en France: French Money, Past and Present 93 -- Vocabulary related to money -- Euro -- Before the Euro: francs and centimes -- Present tense of faire, to make, to do, croire, to believe, valoir, to be worth -- Chapter 13 Les Nombres dans la Vie Quotidienne: Numbers in Everyday Life 99 -- Weights and measures -- Present tense of savoir, to know (how), connaitre, to know, to be acquainted with -- Possessive adjectives -- Chapter 14 Quelle Heure Est-II?: What Time Is It? 105 -- Telling time -- Buying tickets for the train and for the movies -- Expressing praise and approval -- Present tense of partir, to leave, sortir, to go out -- Revision 3 Review of Chapters 10-14 112 -- Chapter 15 Le Cinema: The Movies 120 -- Words associated with films and movie theaters -- Present tense of venir, to come -- Direct object pronouns -- Use of y, there -- Chapter 16 Quelques Dates de l'Histoire Moderne de France: Some Dates in Modern French History 126 -- Months of the year -- Present tense of regular -ir verbs, like finir, to finish -- Other regular -ir verbs -- Ordinal numbers -- Telling the date -- Chapter 17 Questions sur la Geographie de France: Questions about French Geography 132 -- Using adjectives and adverbs to compare geographical features of France and America -- Present tense of mettre, to put -- More expressions of comparison -- Chapter 18 La Journee de M. Brown: Mr. Brown's Day 139 -- Meals -- Foods -- Present tense of reflexive verbs like se laver, to wash oneself -- Imperative forms of reflexive verbs -- Some reflexive French verbs that are not translated by reflexive verbs in English -- Chapter 19 La Vie dans la Banlieue: Life in the Suburbs 145 -- Fruits and vegetables -- Some idiomatic expressions -- Using the partitive to express some or any -- Partitive pronoun en, of it, of them -- Revision 4 Review of Chapters 15-19 151 -- Chapter 20 Quel Mauvais Temps!: What Bad Weather! 158 -- Weather expressions -- Direct and indirect object pronouns -- Present tense of verbs like ouvrir, to open -- Chapter 21 Le Climat en France: The Climate in France 163 -- Four seasons -- Present tense of devoir, to owe, to have to, recevoir, to receive -- Variations of ne ... pas -- Chapter 22 Le Climat en France (Suite): The Climate in France (Cont'd) 169 -- Common adverbs and prepositions -- Demonstrative adjectives: ce, cette, ces and pronouns: celui, celle, ceux, celles, ceci, cela -- Adding -ci or -la to indicate this one or that one -- Chapter 23 La Bonne Cuisine Francaise: Good French Cooking 174 -- French specialties -- French cooking terms adopted into English -- Present tense of envoyer, to send -- More prepositions -- Disjunctive pronouns used with prepositions -- Disjunctive pronouns used with a to indicate possession -- Revision 5 Review of Chapters 20-23 180 -- Chapter 24 Les Francais: The French People 187 -- Points of the compass -- Words associated with smoking -- Tradesmen and women -- Reflexive verbs indicating reciprocal actions -- Present participle: form and use -- Chapter 25 L'Art et la Mode: Art and Fashion 193 -- Venir de + infinitive: How to specify an action that has just taken place -- Etre en train de: to specify an ongoing action -- Examples of verbs with internal spelling changes: acheter, to buy, preferer, to prefer, appeler, to call -- Chapter 26 Les Jours de Fete en France: French Holidays 198 -- French names of holidays and associated expressions -- Verbs like tenir, to hold, venir, to come -- Spelling changes in verbs like commencer, to begin, manger, to eat -- Chapter 27 Quels Endroits Voulez-Vous Visiter?: What Places do You Wish to Visit? 203 -- Future tense of regular verbs parler (-er), finir (-ir), vendre (-re) -- Stems in common irregular verbs -- Revision 6 Review of Chapters 24-27 209 -- Chapter 28 M. Brown Ecrit une Lettre a Sa Representante: Mr. Brown Writes a Letter to His Agent 215 -- Travel plans -- Present tense of suivre, to follow, traduire, to translate -- Additional verbs with irregular stems in the future tense -- Depuis, il y a, since, for, pendant, during, in combination with expressions of date and time -- Chapter 29 M. Brown Recoit une Lettre: Mr. Brown Receives a Letter 221 -- Words and phrases referring to the past -- Salutations, closings of business letters -- Le passe compose: how to form the past tense in French -- Regular and irregular past participles -- Chapter 30 Les Derniers Conseils de M. Picard: Mr. Picard's Final Words of Advice 228 -- "False friends" or false cognates -- More irregular past participles -- Agreement of the past participle -- Chapter 31 M. Brown Part pour la France: Mr.

Brown Leaves for France 234 -- Preparations for his flight -- Even more irregular past participles -- Use of past participles as adjectives -- Revision 7 Review of Chapters 28-31 240 -- Chapter 32 Usage Rend Maitre: Practice Makes Perfect 246 -- From the airport to the city -- Greetings, introductions, leavetakings -- Verbs with the auxiliary etre in the passe compose -- Agreement of the past participle with the subject of the verb -- Chapter 33 M. Brown Rend Visite a la Famille Parmentier: Mr. Brown Visits the Parmentier Family 253 -- A house and life of high style -- Some professions -- Passe compose of reflexive verbs -- Present and past tenses of the verb s'asseoir, to sit down -- Reflexive verbs found in the dialogues -- Chapter 34 Une Belle Promenade: A Lovely Stroll 259 -- Discovering Paris -- Relative pronouns: qui, que, who, that, ce qui, what, lequel, laquelle, lesquels, lesquelles, which one(s), dont, whose, of which -- Chapter 35 Le Mont-Saint-Michel: Mont-Saint-Michel 265 -- Travelling to the site -- Features of the village and the abbey -- Vocabulary: parts of the body -- Introduction to l'imparfait, the imperfect (past) tense -- Chapter 36 Le Grand Guignol: Puppet Show 271 -- Words and phrases describing feelings -- Present and past tenses of rire, to laugh, vivre, to live -- Past infinitive: how to form it, when to use it -- Revision 8 Review of Chapters 32-36 276 -- Chapter 37 La Grande Rue du Village: Main Street 282 -- Shops and shopkeepers -- Overview of object pronouns -- Placement of object pronouns in a sentence -- Order of object pronouns -- Chapter 38 Une Excursion a Chartres: A Trip to Chartres 288 -- Vocabulary associated with automobiles and driving -- Past perfect, or pluperfect, tense -- Rules for using possessive pronouns: le mien, mine, la notre, ours, etcet. -- Chapter 39 M. Brown Achete un Billet de Loterie: Mr. Brown Buys a Lottery Ticket 295 -- Le conditionnel, the conditional, formation -- Stems for the future tense are also used in the conditional -- Chapter 40 M. Brown s'en Va: Mr. Brown Goes Away 300 -- Le conditionnel passe, the past conditional -- Si clauses: pairing different tenses to express hypothetical situations -- Revision 9 Review of Chapters 37-40 304.