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CONTROVERSES presents issues that are important to the French and francophone world. High interest topics and well-crafted activities will foster your conversational skills. Each chapter gives you opportunities to express yourself both in writing and orally. With this text as your guide, you will soon be speaking French like a native!

Table of Contents:
PRELIMINAIRE. UN PREMIER CONTACT. Communication: Faisons connaissance! Discutons un peu! Lisons un texte: L'etude du francais est-elle important aujourd'hui. Apprenons a ecrire! La dialectique hegelienne. Comparaisons structurales: Le present de l'indicatif. 1. L'AMITIE. Communication: Point: "L'amitie occupe une moindre place dans la vie des Americains." Contre-point: "L'amitie est trop exigeante chez les Francais." Comparaisons structurales: Le passe compose. L'imparfait. Le plus-que-pairfait. La narration au passe. Le passe simple. Contexte social: L'amitie en statistiques. Communautes: Un sondage de mes amis. Liens interdisciplinaires: L'amitie en litterature: "Le Petit prince," d'Antoine de Saint Exupery (extrait). 2. LES MEDIAS ET LA VIE PRIVEE. Communication: Point: "La tele-realite est mediocre, mais pas dangereuse." Contre-point: "La tele-realite: une emission fasciste?" Comparaisons structurales: Les pronoms personnels. Les pronoms adverbiaux. Position et ordre des pronoms. Contexte social: Les habitudes de loisirs des Francais. Communautes: Le portrait d'un fanatique de la tele-realite. Liens interdisciplinaires: Philosophie: "Loft Story et la scene primitive." 3. LA PARITE ENTRE LES SEXES. Communication: Point: "La parite, fait presque accompli." Contre-point: "La parite, fair a accomplir." Comparaisons structurales: Les adjectifs. Les adverbes. Le comparatif. Le superlatif. Contexte social: Les chiffres en temoignent. La parite et la religion: Le cas du Maroc. Communautes: Une manif. Liens interdisciplinaires: La parite en litterature: "Le Temps des secrets" (extrait). 4. LE BIEN COLLECTIF ET LA LIBERTE INDIVIDUELLE. Communication: Point: "Le devoir de respecter la liberte d'autrui: Le cas du tabagisme." Contre-point: "Privileges et responsabilites de la liberte: Le cas du port obligatoire du casque a velo." Comparaisons structurales: Le futur. Le conditionnel. Contexte social: L'antitabagisme en France: un movement en retard? Communautes: Les controversies sur votre campus. Liens interdisciplinaires: Cyclo-tourisme: La Route verte au Quebec. 5. LA MONDIALISATION: EST-CE UNE REALITE INEVITABLE OU UNE CAUSE A COMBATTRE? Communication: Point: "La mondialisation est un facteur de progres." Contre-point: "La mondialisation est un facteur de degradation." Comparaisons structurales: Le present du subjonctif. Le passe du subjonctif. Contexte social: La mondialisation et les langues: L'anglicisation du francais. Communautes: Signes de mondialisation dans ma communaute. Liens interdisciplinaires: La mondialisation et la mode. 6. L'IMMIGRATION. Communication: Point: "L'immigration met en peril l'identite nationale." Contre-point: "L'immigration joue un role important dans la richesse economique et culturelle du pays." Comparaisons structurales: Les determinants. Les pronoms demonstratifs et possessifs. Contexte social: 52 ans de dispositifs legislatifs. Les Maghrebins. Le droit de vote des etrangers. Communautes: La vie, le defi et les sentiment d'un immigre de ma communaute. Liens interdisciplinaires: Litterature de l'immigration: Didier Van Cauwelaert: "Un aller simple" (extrait). 7. LANGUE ET SOCIETE: LE CAS DU BILINGUISME. Communication: Point: "Le bilinguisme est un cauchemar politique." Contre-point: Le bilinguisme est une benediction economique et culturelle." Comparaisons structurales: Les pronoms relatifs. Contexte social: Le Quebec. Le francais "quebecois." La Belgique: Quel systeme politique preferez-vous? La francophonie en Afrique. Communautes: Le plurilinguisme de ma communaute. Liens interdisciplinaires: "Les avantages du bilinguisme." 8. L'EDUCATION: DEVRAIT-ELLE ETRE GRATUITE OU PAYANTE? Communication: Point: "La vie d'etudiant? A vos risques et perils!" Contre-point: "La fac, royaume de la debrouille." Comparaisons structurales: L'interrogation. Contexte social: L'organisation de la scolarite. Communautes: L'education de ma famille: trios generations differentes. Liens interdisciplinaires: Sociologie: Valerie Erlich, "Les nouveaux Etudiants: un groupe social en mutation" (extrait).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781413004496
  • Publisher: Cengage Learning, Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Heinle
  • Height: 231 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 400 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1413004490
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 2005
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 185 mm


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