- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Contemporary (1 Nov 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0071488340
- ISBN-13: 978-0071488341
- Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 21.3 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Go beyond merci and add thousands of words to your French vocabulary
To communicate comfortably in French, you need access to a variety of words that are more than just the basics. In Practice Makes Perfect: French Vocabulary you get the tools you need to expand your lexicon and sharpen your speaking and writing skills. And how do you this? PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!
Each chapter of this comprehensive book focuses on a theme, such as family or travel, so you can build your language skills in a systematic manner. As you lay the foundation for a burgeoning vocabulary, you will perfect your new words with plenty of exercises and gain the confidence you need to communicate well in French.
Practice Makes Perfect: French Vocabulary offers you:
- More than 100 exercises
- Concise grammatical explanations
- An answer key to gauge your comprehension
With help from this book, you can easily speak or write in French about:
Different occupations and jobs * French holidays and traditions * Taking the train * Growing your own garden * Where it hurts on your body * Your house * Your family and friends * What you studied in school * Your favorite TV show * Your family's background . . . and much more
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Go beyond Merci and add thousands of words to your French vocabulary
To communicate comfortably in French, you need access to a variety of words that are more than just the basics. In Practice Makes Perfect: French Vocabulary you get the tools you need to expand your lexicon and sharpen your speaking and writing skills. And how do you this? PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!
Each chapter of this comprehensive book focuses on a theme, such as family or travel, so you can build your language skills in a systematic manner. As you lay the foundation for a burgeoning vocabulary, you will perfect your new words with plenty of exercises and gain the confidence you need to communicate well in French.
Practice Makes Perfect: French Vocabulary offers you:
- More than 100 exercises
- Concise grammatical explanations
- An answer key to gauge your comprehension
With help from this book, you can easily speak or write in French about:
- Different occupations and jobs
- French holidays and traditions
- Taking the train
- Growing your own garden
- Where it hurts on your body
- Your house
- Your family and friends
- What you studied in school
- Your favorite TV show
- Your family's background . . . and much more
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am currently learning French and German having mastered Spanish.
While Dorothy Richmond's Spanish Vocabulary is a veritable 400 word bonanza of words and helpful exercises, this one is a decided disappointment.
The Spanish one is twice it's size and is excellent value with plenty of thorough exercises to consolidate the lists of new words.
This French Vocabulary has lots of word lists but only four-five exercises per unit. The exercises themselves are not particularly thorough, requiring only true/false answers and very often requiring words that are not listed at all in the previous wordlist. A good workbook lists the vocabulary and then provides thorough exercises to practice and consolidate it, it does not confuse the student with yet a few more new words of which the meaning is not given.
You will therefore need a good dictionary at your side when using this book as you will meet many unfamiliar words in the exercises that have not been listed in the unit being practiced.
In my view, to improve this book the following would need to happen:
1. Exercise only the vocabulary being introduced. An efficient self contained workbook should not require a dictionary.
2. Expand the exercises beyond True/False, A-L lists and reading comprehension. Give writing tasks for example, and please give more exercises. A little more imagination please!! Take a look at Ms Deveney Richmond's Spanish series' for guidance.
I am not entirely ignorant of the issues at hand as I am a qualified adult education teacher myself!
Thanks.
While Dorothy Richmond's Spanish Vocabulary is a veritable 400 word bonanza of words and helpful exercises, this one is a decided disappointment.
The Spanish one is twice it's size and is excellent value with plenty of thorough exercises to consolidate the lists of new words.
This French Vocabulary has lots of word lists but only four-five exercises per unit. The exercises themselves are not particularly thorough, requiring only true/false answers and very often requiring words that are not listed at all in the previous wordlist. A good workbook lists the vocabulary and then provides thorough exercises to practice and consolidate it, it does not confuse the student with yet a few more new words of which the meaning is not given.
You will therefore need a good dictionary at your side when using this book as you will meet many unfamiliar words in the exercises that have not been listed in the unit being practiced.
In my view, to improve this book the following would need to happen:
1. Exercise only the vocabulary being introduced. An efficient self contained workbook should not require a dictionary.
2. Expand the exercises beyond True/False, A-L lists and reading comprehension. Give writing tasks for example, and please give more exercises. A little more imagination please!! Take a look at Ms Deveney Richmond's Spanish series' for guidance.
I am not entirely ignorant of the issues at hand as I am a qualified adult education teacher myself!
Thanks.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm French and I give French lessons.
I've just had a look at the "inside book" to see how the book is made and there are mistakes!
For example we don't say: "il faut faire un coup de téléphone" mais il faut PASSER un coup de téléphone.
We don't say: "il faut faire la toilette, (which one?)" But: "faire sa toilette, ou se laver".
So be careful before using it, it's not a good French.
I've just had a look at the "inside book" to see how the book is made and there are mistakes!
For example we don't say: "il faut faire un coup de téléphone" mais il faut PASSER un coup de téléphone.
We don't say: "il faut faire la toilette, (which one?)" But: "faire sa toilette, ou se laver".
So be careful before using it, it's not a good French.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I only had Frech one year several years ago, but I can still understand some. This I didn't understand at all. Almost everything was in French and with little exsamples of what to do, so therefor I put it away. But if you understand more French than I do, I am sure this is a great way. Guess I could have bought a dictionary, but too impatient to look up that many words.
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