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Better Reading French, 2nd Edition

by: Heminway, Annie

Better Reading French, 2nd Edition

by: Heminway, Annie

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Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 10/27/2011
Publisher: McGraw Hill

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Sharpen your French language skills through readings about its speakers' daily lives and culture Better Reading Frenchoffers you entertaining, "real world" texts to help you understand and learn more French vocabulary and phrases. Each chapter features articles that cover a specific topic, such as cuisine, music, sports, film and theater, art, the family, today's lifestyle, or politics and history. Along the way, you will find instruction and exercises to help develop improved reading speed, comprehension, and vocabulary. The articles become gradually more difficult as you proceed through the book to keep you challenged and engaged. Better Reading Frenchis an easy, engaging way to boost your language skills and learn more about the language and its speakers as you go.

Preface	p. ix
How to use this book	p. xi
Embrasse-moi
Les petits mots d'amour A game of love, Valentine's Day cards, and proverbs about love	p. 3
L'horoscope Horoscopes-Western and Chinese	p. 5
Les petites annonces classées Looking for love in the classifieds	p. 9
L'amour éternel A letter from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo	p. 11
La vie romantique A letter from George Sand to Alfred de Musset	p. 13
L'amour au théâtre Molière's pursuit of the perfect expression of love	p. 16
L'amour et les chats Chateaubriand's love of cats	p. 18
L'amour et le chocolat For the love of chocolate	p. 20
L'adieu A farewell poem by Apollinaire	p. 23
Écris-moi
Les notes Sticky notes, to-do lists, e-mail, a love letter, a "Dear John" letter, postcards, and a wedding invitation	p. 27
Échanges entre voisins Correspondence-neighborly and not so neighborly	p. 36
Correspondance administrative A letter to city hall	p. 39
Lettre de cachet An official request	p. 40
Lettres historiques Letters from the battlefield	p. 41
Runes The magic of writing	p. 44
Haïkus Poetry in three lines	p. 46
Nourris-moi
La panoplie du chef A chef's stock-in-trade	p. 49
Recettes Three recipes, beginning with dessert	p. 51
Les critiques culinaires A guide to Parisian restaurants	p. 57
Cuisine et littérature Déjeuner with Proust	p. 59
Les manières de table Eating do's and don'ts in the 1800s	p. 60
Le lunch au Local Let's have lunch with the Québécois!	p. 62
Des livres beaux à croquer Flaubert au chocolat, Balzac à la Chantilly	p. 65
Enivrez-vous An invitation from Baudelaire	p. 67
Chante, chante
À la claire fontaine A seventeenth-century soldier's lament	p. 71
Le temps des cerises Politics and love in a nineteenth-century song	p. 73
Les roses blanches Lyrical white roses for maman	p. 75
Carmen Romance in Bizet's opera	p. 78
Le chant grégorien Centuries-old plainsong	p. 81
L'Olympia Resurrecting a musical theater in Paris	p. 83
Le Musée de la Musique A museum of musical instruments	p. 85
Nous n'irons plus au bois A song based on a nineteenth-century poem	p. 88
Promène-moi
La France des musées Museums-old and new	p. 91
Le musée du quai Branly African, Asian, Oceanic, and American art by the Seine	p. 95
Les musées ruraux Bread, bees, and ostriches in the countryside	p. 102
Les musées urbains Fabric and fashion in the city	p. 106
Les maisons d'artistes The artist's spirit lives on	p. 111
Le Paris des jardins The green space of Paris	p. 116
Emmène-moi au bout du monde
Un voyage d'affaires Doing business in Venice	p. 121
L'Orient-Express A history of the train of myth and mystique	p. 122
Un tour en montgolfière Up, up, and away	p. 127
Paris bohème A stroll through 1920s Montparnasse	p. 131
Théodore Monod A scientist and humanitarian whose passion was the desert	p. 134
Alexandra David-Néel Pages from an explorer's journal	p. 137
Femmes au-delà des mers Women, heritage, and networking	p. 140
Fais-moi explorer
Lecture numérique Young, avid digital readers	p. 147
Les inventions Hot-air balloons, garbage cans, and Braille	p. 151
L'euro Technology in your pocket	p. 156
Les vitraux Craftsmanship in the restoration of stained glass	p. 159
Marie Curie, une pionnière du prix Nobel au Panthéon The first woman to join the nation's "great men"	p. 162
Médecins Sans Frontières Relieving the world's suffering	p. 166
Adolphe Sax The highs and lows of an inventor's life	p. 169
Explique-moi tous les symboles
Les symboles français Maxims, the rooster, Marianne, and "La Marseillaise"	p. 175
Les drapeaux The flags of France and the European Union	p. 180
L'Académie française Protecting the mother tongue	p. 181
Les discours Speech, speech! Victor Hugo delivers	p. 187
Fais-moi découvrir la littérature contemporaine
Hommage au monde francophone A tribute to the mother tongue	p. 195
La théorie des nuages Cloud obsession, love, and survival	p. 202
Pondichéry, à l'aurore From Stockholm to Pondichéry	p. 206
Aimé Césaire par sa fille Césaire, fundamental man	p. 211
Haïti Kenbe La! Dreams of my Haitian grandmother	p. 215
Dany Laferrière We are human beings, all over the world	p. 221
Boulevard des Mots-dits A carnival of words	p. 230
La tourmente de la langue française Taming the French language	p. 233
Chant à l'Indien A poem by Khireddine Mourad	p. 237
Continuing to read	p. 239
Answer key	p. 251
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