French in Action: A Beginning Course in Language and Culture: The Capretz Method - Hardcover

Capretz, Pierre J.; Lydgate, Barry; Abetti, Beatrice; Germain, Marie-Odile

 
9780300176100: French in Action: A Beginning Course in Language and Culture: The Capretz Method
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300176104 ISBN 13: 9780300176100
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2012

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Since it was first published, French in Action: A Beginning Course in Language and Culture—The Capretz Method has been widely recognized in the field as a model for video-based foreign-language instructional materials. The third edition has been revised by Pierre Capretz and Barry Lydgate and includes new, contemporary illustrations throughout and more-relevant information for today's students in the Documents sections of each lesson. A completely new feature is a journal by the popular character Marie-Laure, who observes and humorously comments on the political, cultural, and technological changes in the world between 1985 and today. The new edition also incorporates more content about the entire Francophone world. In use by hundreds of colleges, universities, and high schools, French in Action remains a powerful educational resource, and the third edition updates the course for a new generation of learners.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Pierre Capretz is the creator of French in Action and a pioneer in video-based foreign-language instruction. He taught French at Yale University from 1956 to 2003 and was director of the Yale Language Laboratory from 1963 to 2000. Barry Lydgate is professor of French at Wellesley College.

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French in Action

A Beginning Course in Language and Culture The Capretz Method

By Pierre J. Capretz, Béatrice Abetti, Marie-Odile Germain, Barry Lydgate, Tim Shea

Yale UNIVERSITY PRESS

Copyright © 2013 Pierre Capretz and Barry Lydgate
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-300-17610-0

Contents

Preface to the Third Edition...............................................vii
Acknowledgments............................................................ix
1 Introduction.............................................................1
2 Genèse I.................................................................9
3 Genèse II................................................................18
4 Genèse III...............................................................26
5 Familles.................................................................34
6 Portraits I..............................................................42
7 Portraits II.............................................................50
8 Généalogie...............................................................58
9 Vacances en Bretagne I...................................................68
10 Vacances en Bretagne II.................................................80
11 Rencontres I............................................................89
12 Rencontres II...........................................................100
13 Rencontres III..........................................................113
14 Entrée en matière I.....................................................129
15 Entrée en matière II....................................................141
16 Entrée en matière III...................................................156
17 Il n'y a pas de sot métier I............................................168
18 Il n'y a pas de sot métier II...........................................180
19 Attention: Ecoles I.....................................................194
20 Attention: Ecoles II....................................................208
21 Attention: Ecoles III...................................................220
22 A la recherche d'une invitation I.......................................230
23 A la recherche d'une invitation II......................................242
24 Nourritures terrestres I................................................256
25 Nourritures terrestres II...............................................273
26 Nourritures terrestres III..............................................285
Abréviations...............................................................A-1
Lexique....................................................................A-3
Credits....................................................................A-61


CHAPTER 1

Introduction


Welcome to French in Action!Before you enter the world ofFrench language and culture andmeet the French-speaking men andwomen whose activities form theplot of our story, before you watchthe video programs, listen to theaudio recordings, and plunge intothe workbook and this textbook,take a moment to read the remarksthat follow. They explain the goalsof the course, its methods andcomponents, and what we believeits value will be to you as a learner.


WHY FRENCH?

There are more than four thousandlanguages spoken on this planet.You are lucky enough to be a speakerof English, the world's leadinglanguage. You already have accessto millions of speakers in hundredsof countries, to the thoughts anddeeds of thousands of writers overthe centuries. So why learn French?

The first and probably mostimportant reason is that in a fast-shrinkingworld, French gives youaccess to a wide variety of peoplesand cultures. More than 200 millionpeople speak French worldwide.The Francophone (French-speaking)world includes some fiftycountries across five continents; inthirty-two of them French is thefirst or second official language,and in many more it is widelyspoken in daily life. French is theprincipal language of France, ofcourse, but it is also one of the officiallanguages of Belgium, Switzerland,and Canada. It is the commonlanguage of several countries inthe Caribbean (Haiti, Guadeloupe,Martinique, Guyana) and in Africa(Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal,Mauritania, Chad, Togo, the DemocraticRepublic of Congo, and theIvory Coast, to name only a few),and it is spoken extensively in theMiddle East (Lebanon and Egypt).Along with English, French is oneof the world's international languages.If you have a United Statespassport, notice the two languagesin which it is written: English andFrench. Wherever you go in theworld, you will find educated menand women who speak French as asecond or third language. A personwho knows English and French isequipped to thrive in almost anycountry on earth.

Knowing French brings withit a new way of seeing, of listening,and of thinking. Much of thecreative thinking that has shapedthe Western tradition has beendone in French. French opensthe doors to the works and wordsof many of the world's greatestphilosophers, scientists, musicians,painters, and writers. To read themin their own language is to graspsubtleties and beauties that toooften disappear in translation. Anumber of great French writersare represented in French in Action:Jean de La Fontaine, Victor Hugo,Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-PaulSartre, Marguerite Yourcenar, andmany others. To encounter themand other French-speaking authorsin their own language is to entersympathetically into different waysof constructing and understandingthe world, since the language itselfmirrors perspectives on reality thatare specific to the cultures that useit.

Some people are interested inlearning French because of the longand close historical ties that existbetween France and the UnitedStates. In fact, no nation other thanEngland has played a more decisiverole in the making of America.(Were you aware that the first Europeansto settle in North Americawere French Huguenots who foundeda colony in Florida in 1564?)French explorers like Cartier,Champlain, Marquette, and La Salleled expeditions through Canadaand the Great Lakes region, anddown the Mississippi River; andFrench colonists settled vast areasof the North American continent.You might be one of the 9 millionAmericans of French descent, orlive in one of the cities founded byFrench people: Detroit, Michigan;Fond du Lac, Wisconsin; TerreHaute, Indiana; St. Louis, Missouri;Baton Rouge, Louisiana; or Paris,Texas, among many others. Frenchsoldiers fought alongside the colonistsin the Revolutionary War, andthe treaty that ended that war wassigned in Paris. Alexis de Tocquevillewas one of the first and mostperspicacious commentators on thenew nation; his Democracy in Americais central to the study of...

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
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0300176104
ISBN 13 
9780300176100
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