Façon de Parler 1 is ideal for group work and will also be useful for individual study and revision purposes.

Activities in the past. Invitations and formal letters. Revision of the perfect tense with avoir, regular and common irregular verbs; several verbs with etre. Agreement of preceding object. Il y a meaning 'ago'. C’était une façon de parler, en effet : on connaît les héros. Autrefois, on les voyait sur la place publique, maintenant, on les voit et les entend dans les cinémas. Et bientôt, par la télévision, leur recès le plus intime sera de verre ; alors régnera une totale fraternité. — (Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Le Feu follet (1931)) Façon de Parler 1 is the first stage of the bestselling French course for beginners, offering a comprehensive multi-media French adult learning programme for classroom use as well as home study and revision. The course includes a coursebook, activity book, and audio and video, available in various formats:

Façon de parler: la sapologie sous toutes les coutures!

Holiday plans; Present tense of vouloir, pouvoir, devoir; Talking about what you know (savoir and connaître); Describing physical appearance Discussing jobs, working hours and conditions of service. Answering ads and making job applications. Façon de Parler 1 French Beginner’s course 6th edition: Audio App 9781529345117 (This is the audio component of the course.) Introductions and personal details. Revision of the present tense; habiter + a + en. Use of depuis + present tense. Agreement of adjectives. Covering a range of themes, interviews with a variety of French speakers provide an ideal opportunity for further language practice and offer valuable insights into French culture.

Describing continuous activities in the past. Means of transport. The imperfect tense. Reported speech. Façon de Parler 1 French Beginner’s course 6th edition: Activity Book 9781529374216 (This is a workbook containing further practice activities to complement the material presented in the coursebook.) There are also regular revision sections to consolidate the main topics and grammar points, while a useful reference section is followed by a French-English end vocabulary. The video consists of seven colourful episodes which expand on selected themes from the coursebook.  Façon de Parler 1 is the first part of this bestselling, highly illustrative and communicative course which is specially designed for adult beginners learning French. Angela Aries and Dominique Debney guide you step by step through all the basic language skills you need for holiday, business or exams and there is plenty of opportunity to practise what you have learned as you go along.

Façon de parler: les mots avignonnais

Asking and giving your age; Expressions with avoir; Place words; Possessives with de, du, de la, etc. Façon de Parler 1 French Beginner’s course 6th edition: Coursebook 9781529374223 (This is the primary text for the course.)

This is the video component of Façon de Parler 1 (Sixth Edition), filmed entirely on location in Bordeaux. Façon de Parler 1 French Beginner’s course 6th edition: Video App 9781529345124 (This is the video component of the course.) Accommodation problems. Saying what has happened. Pros and cons of forms of transport. More perfect and imperfect tenses. The perfect passive. French history and culture. Writing an extended narrative. The past historic. More use of the passive.

Façon de parler: les mots du genre

A turn of phrase or rhetorical formula, especially one that ought not to be taken literally, but rather as employed for convenience of expression only.