Introduction Transition chapter UNITE 1: La famille et vous (Youth culture and concerns) - Une famille moderne? - Qu'est-ce que c'est, donc, la famille et l'amitie? - Les liens d'amitie - Le mariage: un concepte demode? - Disputes: le conflit familial - Devenez-vous independant? - Droits et responsabilites - Revolution ou evolution: la famille a-t-elle un avenir? - Grammar (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): Depuis/Venir de + infinitive/Possessive adjectives/Gender and plural of nouns/Present tense/Pronouns/Pronouns 2: y + en/Order of pronouns/Negatives - Study Skills (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): Listening: Outline of the exam/Reading: Outline of the exam/Writing: Outline of the exam/Speaking: Outline of the exam AS UNITE 2: L'education, le monde du travail (Education and employment) - L'ecole en France - L'orientation - La triche et la toile - Parfois, la vie est difficile - La vie apres l'ecole - Gagner sa vie - La vie adulte - Grammar (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): Question words/Ordinal numbers/Perfect tense/Demonstratives/Demonstrative pronouns/Pluperfect - Study skills (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): Listening: Answering questions in French and English/Tense manipulation/Writing: Letter writing; Addressing bullet points UNITE 3: Les loisiers (Lifestyle: health and fitness) - Les medias et les traditions - La montagne - Quel sport? - Point rencontre: le tennis et la parapente - On sort: que faire? - Le septieme art de la radio - Grammar (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): Adjectives/Comparative and superlatives/The articles de and the preposition a/Relatives pronouns/Direct + indirect object pronouns and y + en/Future/Conditional tense/Future + conditional perfect - Study skills (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): Listening: Question types/Speaking: How the exam works/Reading: Vocabulary and questions types/Writing: Communication - content and response UNITE 4: Mode de vie (Lifestyle: health and fitness) - Les Francais et les repas - La restauration rapide - L'alcool et les prejuges par rapport a la sante - La toxicomanie - Le tabagisme - La sante en France - Grammar (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition): Adverb formation/Adverbs: comparative and superlative/Present subjunctive/Reflexive verbs/Perfect infinitive/Determiners/Indefinite pronouns/Commands and imperatives - Study skills (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): Listening: How to prepare to answer and how to control the recording/Speaking: Reading: How to read for gist and detail/Writing: Language: Accuracy UNITE 5: En route (The world around us) - Pourquoi partir en vacances? - Comment partir? En famille? - Les attractions touristiques en France - La route - Les transports en ville - Deux roues - Le TGV - Grammar (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): Position of advers/Conditional clause/Verbs and infinitive/Direct and indirect speech/Present participle/Revision of questions/Revision of object pronouns/Passive/Past historic/Perfect - Study Skills (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): Listening: Listening for gist/general sense/Speaking: Section B/Reading: Answering English questions: Transfer of meaning from French to English/Writing: Language: range UNITE 6: SOS Planete (The world around us) - L'effet de serre et nous - Les dechets et le recyclage - La pollution urbaine - L'energie et les alternatives - Les solutions alternatives et l'avenir - L'environnement et la politique - Grammar (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): Revision of faire+infinitive/Conjunctions/Possessive pronouns/Pronouns/Impersonal verbs/Emphatic/Disjunctive pronouns/Revision of future and conditional/Writing a letter/Revision of subjunctive - Study Skills (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edirion CD-ROM): Listening: Question technique/Speaking: How is it marked?/Reading: Exam practice/Writing: How to respond in an exam situation A2 UNITE 7: Les arts, la mode, la publicite et Internet (Youth culture and concerns) - L'informatique et Internet - La litterature francaise - L'art et l'architecture - La mode - La publicite - Grammar (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): Verb tense/Conditional perfect/Si clauses or conditional clauses/Uses of en/Present participles/Demonstrative pronouns - Study Skills (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): Speaking: Outline of the exam/Translation: Outline of the exam/Essay: Outline of the exam/Research essay: Outline of the exam - UNITE 8: L'etat et l'individu (Customs, traditions, beliefs and religions) - La politique francaise - L'Union Europeenne - Manifester, une tradition francaises? - La delinquance - La justice et la peine de mort - Le feminisme - Grammar (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): Subjunctive/Inversion after adverbs/Imperfect and perfect tense/Comparative and superlative adverbs/Prepositions/Pronouns: more sophisticated usage/More pronouns work - Study Skills (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): Debate/Translation: Transaltion/Essay: Basic planning: read+understand the question; Assess each title carefully;Keywords/Research essay: Type of research/What sort of resource? UNITE 9: La France: terre d'accueil? (National and international events) - La colonisation - L'immigration et le racism - La discrimination - L'antisemitisme - Grammar (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): The passive/Revision of conditional/Revision of question/Nagatives/Lequel/Past historic - Study Skills (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): Discussion -what is it?/Translation: How it it marked?/Essay: Creative essay?/Research essay: How to tackle the questions? UNITE 10: Sante physique, sante morale (Youth culture and concerns) - Les Francais et la medicine - L'alcool: sachez consommer avec moderation! - Les dupes de la dope - Droits a la vie, droit a la mort - Grammar (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): Possessive pronouns/Faire + infinitive/Revision of relative pronouns/Future perfect - Study Skills (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): Speaking: How is it marked?/Translation: Exam techniques/Essay: How is it marked?/Research essay: How is it marked? UNITE 11: Le riche et le pauvre (Aspect of modern French-Speaking society) - Les sans travail et les SDF - La pauvrete en France - Point rencontre: Yannick Bathes - assistant social a Paris - Les associations benevoles - L'exode rural - La vieillesse - Grammar (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): Direct and indirect speech/Impersonal verbs - Study Skills (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): Debate and discussion: Practical tips/Translation: Exam practice/Essay: Practical exam tips/Research essay: How to prepare/revise for the examination UNITE 12: Tournons-nous vers l'avenir (Aspects of modern French-speaking society - La terre en 2050 - La France en crise - L'egalite des sexes - Mariage: concept demode? - Le clonage - Grammar (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): Infinitives/Revision of past infinitive - Study Skills (found on Dynamic Learning Home Edition CD-ROM): Exam clinic/Translation: Exam clinic/Essay: Exam clinic/Reasearch essay: Exam clinic GRAMMAR SUMMARY