Product Description

The revised edition of 'Practising French Grammar' offers a set of varied and accessible exercises for developing a greater practical awareness of the language. It has been updated and is the ideal companion volume to the new edition of the widely acclaimed 'French Grammar and Usage' by Roger Hawkins and Richard Towell, but can be used by anyone wishing to improve their proficiency in French. The numbering and organisation has been amended to match that of the main grammar, and it features lively texts and activities, as well as jokes and cartoons, helping students to expand their vocabulary, and their ability to speak French. For use both in classwork and by independent learners, the 'Workbook' provides summaries of key grammatical points at the beginning of each exercise, as well as model answers to the exercises and translations of difficult words.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52403 in Books
• Published on: 1997-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

FS LIII
...presents a remarkably varied suite of exercises...

Review
...presents a remarkably varied suite of exercises... (FS LIII )

I know of no other bread 'n' butter grammar book that tackles grammar so clearly and so effectively. Uncluttered by jargon and not riddled with exceptions, it has a plain message for all advanced learners of French. (Alan Smalley, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK )

About the Author
Roger Hawkins is Professor of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. Richard Towell is Professor of French Applied Linguistics at the University of Salford and a past President of the Association of French Language Studies. Marie-Noëlle Lamy is Professor of Distance Language Learning at the Open University.

Customer Reviews

A really useful book for the intermediate/advanced student..
This is a very useful book - I'm using it to revise my rusty French grammar and it's helping enormously. It's modern (I'm only on chapter 2 and already I've come across email and space probes!) and has occasional jokes and cartoons in French to lighten things up a bit. I'd recommend it for anyone in my position...

DISAPOINTING
Before each exercise there is very little explanation on how to complete it, also there is no english translation for any of the french sentances. This is because you need another book called "French Grammar and Usage" as explained in the user guide. In "French Grammar and Usage" (althought I don't have the book)explains fully how to use ce qui, dont, y, en etc. Then you use this book to practice. If I had known I would have brought "French grammer usage" instead. I live in france and speak french quite fluently therfore vocabulary is of no problem. I just wanted to perfection my grammar. I wouldn't recommend this book on it's own due to lack of explanation.

Not very clear
This work book gives a thorough workout, including interesting pieces from a wide range of french newspaper articles, poetry and literature.
However, the grammatical points made and the examples given are not particularly clear and so finding the right answers to many of the excercises feels like guess-work. It also keeps referring back to the first book in an attempt to make you buy both. I gave up half way through.
When I first got this book and saw that the one of the recommendations on the back was from an Amazon reviewer, it gave away that they probably couldn't find anyone else to recommend it...