Deux mondes: A Communicative Approach (Student Edition)

Deux mondes is widely regarded as the most communicative text available for beginning French courses. Based on the Natural Approach developed by Tracy Terrell and Stephen Krashen, this text offers beginning language students a way to develop language proficiency (especially in listening and speaking) that allows them to participate in real conversations at a very early stage. The Natural Approach in general, and Deux mondes, Sixth Edition in particular, present material inductively (so that the activities drive the grammar), students quickly become excited about their rapid growth in comprehension and vocabulary acquisition and enjoy speaking in the non-threatening environment made possible by the activity formats.

Table of Contents:
Note: The preliminary chapters and Chapter 1 of this Table of Contents provide a comprehensive listing of contents for those chapters, as representative of the other chapters. The outlines of Chapters 2-14 provide only the vocabulary topics and grammatical structures. Première étapePremières rencontres Activités La communication en classe Qui est-ce? Les camarades de classe Comment sont-ils? La description des personnes Les vêtements et les couleurs Rencontres Grammaire et exercices A.1 Giving Instructions: Commands with vous A.2 Identifying people: C'est..., Je m'appelle... A.3. Gender and articles A.4 Describing people: Être; subject pronouns, and ne... pas A.5 Plural nouns and articles A.6 Addressing others: Tu and vous Deuxième étapeLe monde étudiant Activités Qu'est-ce qu'il y a dans la salle de classe? La date et l'alphabet Les nombres de 40 à 100 et l'heure Les cours La description des autres Grammaire et exercices B.1 Expressing existence: Il y a B.2 Asking questions B.3 Spelling in French: The French alphabet B.4 Telling time: Quelle heure est-il? B.5 Expressing possession: The verb avoir B.6 Describing with adjectives: More on gender agreement B.7 Irregular plurals Chapitre 1Ma famille et moi Activités et lectures La famille Goûts personnels Info / Société: Portrait de famille Origines et renseignements personnels La vie de famille Info / Société: Qui sont les Français? Les francophones sur le vif: Marie-Claire SchmittLecture: Familles d'aujourd'hui Grammaire et exercices 1.1 Expressing relationships: Possessive adjectives 1.2 Expressing likes and dislikes: Aimer + infinitive 1.3 Talking about dates and personal data: Numbers beyond 100 1.4 Stating origin: The verb venir 1.5 Talking about actions: Present tense of -er verbs 1.6 Expressing relationships and possession: Contractions of de Chapitre 2 La vie quotidienne et les loisirs Le temps, les saisons et les loisirsLes activités quotidiennesLes habitudes et les projetsAptitudes et rêves 2.1 Talking about activities and weather: The verb faire 2.2 Talking about everyday activities: Reflexive verbs 2.3 Going places and future actions: The verb aller, contractions of à 2.4 Making general statements: The impersonal subject on 2.5 Abilities and desires: The verbs pouvoir, vouloir, and savoir Chapitre 3En ville S’orienter en villeLa ville et les transportsLes achatsLes distractions 3.1 Saying where things are: Prepositions of location 3.2 Asking questions: Interrogative words 3.3 Verbs like prendre 3.4 Expressing necessity: Il faut and the verb devoir 3.5 Pointing things out: Demonstrative adjectives 3.6 Expressing quantities: Partitive articles 3.7 The verbs courir, sortir, and dormir Chapitre 4La maison et le quartier Les pièces et les meublesLe logementLes tâches et les loisirsLa vie de quartier 4.1 Describing: Placement of adjectives 4.2 Making comparisons 4.3 Regular -ir verbs 4.4 Regular -re verbs, mettre 4.5 Direct object pronouns 4.6 Talking about knowing: The verb connaître 4.7 Describing states of being: Expressions with avoir Escales francophones: La France Chapitre 5Dans le passé La vie quotidienneLes expériencesLe week-end et les loisirsFaits personnels et historiques 5.1 Saying what you did: Passé composé with avoir 5.2 Irregular past participles 5.3 Saying what you did : Passé composé with être 5.4 Passé composé of reflexive verbs 5.5 Negative expressions Chapitre 6L'enfance et la jeunesse Les activités de l’enfanceLa jeunesseLes rapports avec les autresSouvenirs et événements du passé 6.1 Saying what you used to do: The imperfect 6.2 The verbs dire, lire, écrire 6.3 Describing past states: More on the imperfect 6.4 Linking ideas: Relative pronouns 6.5 Indirect object pronouns 6.6 Idiomatic reflexive verbs 6.7 The verbs voir and croire 6.8 Different perspectives on the past: Summary of passé composé and imperfect Escales francophones: Le Québec Chapitre 7À table! Les aliments et les boissonsOn fait les provisionsL’art de la cuisineAu restaurant 7.1 Review of articles 7.2 The verb boire 7.3 Expressing quantities: The pronoun en 7.4 Expressing all and everything: Using tout 7.5 More on asking questions: Qui, que, and quoi 7.6 Ongoing actions: Etre en train de 7.7 Ordering events: Avant, après Chapitre 8Parlons de la Terre En France et ailleursLa géographie et le climatQuestions écologiques 8.1 Expressing location, destination, and origin: Prepositions + place names 8.2 The verb vivre 8.3 Review of direct and indirect objects: More on object pronouns 8.4 Expressing should: More on devoir 8.5 What was going on: More on the imperfect Escales francophones: Le Sénégal Chapitre 9L'enseignement, les carrières et l'avenir L’enseignement et la formation professionnelleLe travail et les métiersL’avenir 9.1 Other uses of y : J'y pense 9.2 Emphatic pronouns 9.3 Identifying and describing: C'est vs. il/elle est 9.4 Saying what you've been doing: Present tense + depuis 9.5 Saying what you will do: The future tense Chapitre 10Les voyages Voyages à l’étrangerEn voiture! Comment se débrouillerLes achats, les produits et les matières 10.1 Expressing obligation: Il faut que + subjunctive 10.2 More about the subjunctive: Irregular-stem verbs 10.3 Verbs for travelling: The verbs conduire and suivre 10.4 Double object pronouns 10.5 The superlative: Expressing extremes 10.6 Making distinctions: Lequel and celui Escales francophones: La Belgique Chapitre 11Les moyens de communication L’univers de l’électroniqueOn se distrait, on s’informeLes pièges de l’inforoute 11.1 Saying what you would do: The conditional 11.2 The relative pronoun dont 11.3 More on relative pronouns: Ce qui, ce que, ce dont 11.4 Giving orders: Commands with pronouns 11.5 Talking about hypothetical situations: More on the imperfect Chapitre 12La santé et les urgences La santé et le corps humainLes maladies et les traitementsLes accidents et les urgences 12.1 Saying what you want others to do: More on the subjunctive 12.2 Changes of state: Passé composé vs. imperfect 12.3 The present participle 12.4 Expressing events in the recent past: Venir de + infinitive 12.5 Narrating in the past tense: Passé composé vs. imperfect Escales francophones: Les Antilles Chapitre 13La famille et les valeurs en société L’amour, l’amitié et la familleLa vie de familleValeurs et décisions 13.1 Reciprocal actions: More on reflexive pronouns 13.2 Describing actions: Adverbs 13.3 Expressing feelings: More on the subjunctive 13.4 A past in the past: The plus-que-parfait 13.5 More on expressing possession: Possessive pronouns Chapitre 14Les enjeux du présent et de l'avenir L’intégration socialeL’héritage du passéLes enjeux du XXIe siècle 14.1 Should have: The past conditional of devoir 14.2 Saying what you would have done: The past conditional 14.3 Conjunctions: More on the subjunctive 14.4 Expressing doubt and uncertainty: More on the subjunctive Appendix A: Verbs ending in -er with spelling changesAppendix B: Verb + verb constructionsAppendix C: Conjugations of regular and irregular verbsAppendix D: Answers to grammar exercisesLexique: Vocabulaire franç ais-anglaisIndex

About the Author :
Tracy D. Terrell (late) received his Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin and published extensively in the area of Spanish dialectology. Professor Terrells publications on second-language acquisition are widely known in the United States and abroad. Mary Bassett Rogers holds her undergraduate and graduate degrees in French from Vanderbilt University. She taught French at Wichita State University for many years, where she became coordinator for foreign language education and supervised teaching assistants. She served as president of the Kansas Foreign Language Association and was a certified tester for the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview for several years. She has given numerous presentations and workshops on second language teaching and has also taught French and second language pedagogy at Friends University (Kansas). Professor Rogers is co-author of ï¿Bravo!, a Natural Approach program for teaching Spanish in secondary and middle schools. Betsy J. Kerr is an Associate Professor of French at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. She received her Ph.D. in French linguistics from Indiana University and has published in the areas of French syntax and pragmatics, specializing in the analysis of spoken French discourse. At the University of Minnesota, Professor Kerr (formerly Barnes) teaches courses in French language and linguistics. She also serves as advisor to the director of the Lower Division French Program, a position she has held for many years. Born and raised in Marseille, Guy Spielmann (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is Associate Professor of French at Georgetown University. He was also Associate Director, then Director of the French School, Middlebury College. He has done research, lectured, and published extensively on second language acquisition and performing arts in Early Modern Europe. He has also pioneered work in the scholarly and pedagogical use of information technology. Visit La Page de Guy at www.georgetown.edu/spielmann.