Tailored to new curriculum guidelines and the changing conditions of language teaching,
Touché! provides a fresh, easy-to-use choice for busy teachers of French. With six semester-length, topic-based stages,
Touché! is geared to the crucial middle years where student motivation and experience of progress are so important.
Unit topics:
- Talking about yourself
- Friends and neighbours
- Family members
- Favourite pets.
In each of the four units:
- Learn how to - points to the communicative tasks students will be experiencing.
- Cartoon story - introduces and showcases key communicative interactions, language points and cultural information.
- Points de culture - highlights and explains selected cultural aspects featured in the cartoon story.
- Points de prononciation - provides friendly guides to mastering sound patterns in the new words and expressions.
- Vocabulaire and Que veut dire ça? - invites students to actively make sense of the new words and expressions.
- Dialogues, Présentations and Jeux de rôle - provide structured, semi-structured and open-ended speaking activities modelled on the now familiar language.
- Points de langue - how the French language works, from voice tone and accents to grammatical structures and rules.
- Carte blanche - a special feature that extends students' cultural awareness and provides further reading practice.
- Chanson, À faire and À jouer - provide further variety and fun in the French classroom as well as scope for individual, pair or small group activity.
There are also computer-based research activities, a glossary of useful reference points and French/English and English/French vocabulary lists.
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