Product Description

This textbook provides a comprehensive and structured vocabulary for all levels of undergraduate French courses, including relevant higher and further education courses. It offers a broad coverage of concrete and abstract vocabulary relating to the physical, cultural, social, commercial and political environment, as well as exposure to commonly encountered technical terminology. Within each section, words and phrases have been grouped into manageable, assimilable units and broadly ‘graded’ according to likely usefulness and difficulty. The accompanying exercises for private study and classroom use are designed to reinforce the work done on lists, to develop good dictionary use, to encourage independent and collaborative learning, to promote precision and awareness of nuance and register, and to offer the opportunity for the development of cognate transferable skills, such as communicative competence, teamwork and problem-solving. The division of the book into twenty thematic sections allows it to be easily integrated into a modular course structure.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #73169 in Books
• Published on: 1999-03-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 486 pages

Customer Reviews

excellent
if you're an undergrad and find yourself stuck for simple vocabulary (like me!) or would simply like to build on your vocab, then i would highly recommend this book. very detailed and many excercises to keep you busy. includes idiomatic expressions.

Interesting, well thought out, but badly put together
I very much like the idea of this book - a guide to useful French vocabulary for an advanced French speaker; something to "fill the gaps". I was therefore very disappointed to find that the vocabulary in it is, frankly, of a poor quality. Words are often given in an extremely oblique, quasi-inaccurate sense, which would lead to easy misunderstandings. I shall resume my quest for a better-put-together version of this book.