Textbook

Ensemble Culture et Societe, Sixth Edition

Raymond F. Comeau, Normand J. Lamoureux, Marie-Paul Tranvouez

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Overview

Designed for intermediate French courses, this provocative Ensemble program offers selections from contemporary French documents and media. Each chapter of the three components coordinates thematically and linguistically with the others, but each text may also be used independently. The sixth edition program organizes selections around such themes as family, politics, and the arts, and emphasizes issues of current interest, including urban renewal, immigrant workers, French-Canadian nationalism, and la nouvelle cuisine.

Table of Contents

1ere Partie: Vie sociale

1. Les Jeunes
2. Les Femmes
3. La Famille

2eme Partie: Modes de vie

4. Ville et Campagne
5. Les Classes sociales

3eme Partie: Institutions et Influences

6. La France politique et economique
7. Images de la France
8. La Francophonie

4eme Partie: Vie culturelle

9. Interactions
10. La Scene et les Lettres
11. Chanson et Cinema

Index Culturel
Reponses au Nouveau Contexte
Vocabulaire

Hallmark Features

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This edition organizes selections around such themes as family, politics, and the arts, and emphasizes issues of current interest, including urban renewal, immigrant workers, French-Canadian nationalism, and la nouvelle cuisine.
More than one-third of the reading selections from newspapers, magazines, excerpts from essays, literary works, travel guides, interviews and cartoons have been completely revised.
Qu'en pensez-vous? questions and the Appréciation du texte exercises test students compre-hension and understanding of the reading.
Pratique de la langue sections contain role-playing activities and collaborative writing assignments that encourage students to express opinions on the topics introduced in the selection.
Sujets de discussion ou de composition sections relate to the chapter theme and suggest topics for oral and written presentations.