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Gain the language skills you want with this bestselling French workbook!

Practice Makes Perfect: Basic French is the proven companion to your French-learning experience. In each bite-sized lesson, the author explains one—and only one—grammar concept and illustrates it with clear examples. These lessons are purposefully short, so you can complete them in twenty minutes or less, and go at a pace that works for you.

You will, of course, get plenty of practice, practice, practice using your new skills. This new edition is accompanied by flashcards and new audio recordings, available online and via app, that will provide a new dimension and flexibility to your study. Whether you are learning on your own or taking a beginning class, this book will build your confidence in French.

Practice Makes Perfect: Basic French features:

  • Hundreds of engaging exercises enhanced with digital support through iOS, Android, and a desktop application, featuring vocabulary flashcards, exercise answer keys, and self-testing recording and replaying functions
  • Streaming audio recordings for all exercise answers in French
  • Record yourself and replay function to compare against native speakers
  • NEW: Full chapter of review exercises
  • NEW: Audio practice focused on French sounds that learners find difficult to pronounce correctly


ISBN-13: 9781264257317

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC

Publication Date: 05-24-2021

Pages: 288

Product Dimensions: 8.40(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.70(d)

Eliane Kurbegov is a secondary and higher education level French teacher and the author of many French language-learning books, including Must Know French and Practice Makes Perfect: French Vocabulary.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

I

1 Definite articles · Family 3

2 Indefinite articles · Around the house 6

3 J'ai and je veux · Animals 10

4 Il y a · The classroom 14

5 Subject pronouns · Common -er verbs · Regular -er verbs · Days of the week 17

Révision 1 Leçons 1-5 22

II

6 Clothing · -Er verb endings 29

7 -Ir verbs · Food and beverages 33

8 -Ir verb endings · Common -ir verbs 37

9 Adjectives · Colors · Likes and dislikes 40

10 Descriptive adjectives · More than 44

Révision 2 Leçons 6-10 48

III

11 Regular -re verbs · Common -re verbs 55

12 Asking questions - Interrogatives 58

13 The verb être · Occupations 63

14 Possessive adjectives · Using the verb être 67

15 The verb avoir · Inside the house 70

Révision 3 Leçons 11-15 73

IV

16 BAGS adjectives · Locations 79

17 Moods and emotions 82

18 Comment ça va? · Health and fitness · Contractions with à 84

19 Vouloir · More clothes 88

20 Numbers · Age · Expressions with avoir 90

Révision 4 Leçons 16-20 94

V

21 Faire · Weather · Seasons 99

22 Expressions with faire · Sports · Games · Music · Contractions with de 102

23 Telling time 106

24 Aller · Transportation 110

25 Dire · Écrire · Lire · Things to tell, write, and read 113

Révision 5 Leçons 21-25 116

VI

26 Pouvoir · Adverbs 123

27 Devoir - Two-verb constructions · Adverbs of time 127

28 Two-verb questions · More food 131

29 Comparative adverbs and adjectives · Comparisons 134

30 Prepositions + verb · II faut · More things in the house 137

Révision 6 Leçons 26-30 142

VII

31 Demonstrative adjectives · Common stem-changing -er verbs · Expressions of time 147

32 Jeter · Appeler · The forms of vieux, beau, nouveau · Friends 150

33 -Er verbs with e→è stem change · Prepositions: location of things and people 153

34 -Er verbs with é→è stem change · More prepositions (place, time, and people) · Parts of the day 156

35 -Er verbs with y→i stem change - Near future: aller + infinitive · Near past: venir de + infinitive 159

Révision 7 Leçons 31-35 163

VIII

36 Direct object pronouns · Gifts 167

37 Savoir · Hobbies · Ne… pas 171

38 Connaître · The neighborhood · Countries and states 175

39 Savoir and connaître 178

40 Using de and à plus noun · Adverbs of negation 181

Révision 8 Leçons 36-40 185

IX

41 Irregular -ir verbs: sentir, sortir, partir, dormir · Adverbial phrases 191

42 Reflexive pronouns · Reflexive verbs · Parts of the body · Feelings 193

43 Reflexive -er verbs · Toiletries 197

44 Venir · Se souvenir · The object pronoun en 200

45 Offrir · Personal object pronouns: me, te, nous, vous, lui, leur 204

Révision 9 Leçons 41-45 207

X

46 The family of prendre · Languages · Stress pronouns · Prepositional phrases 213

47 Near future · Expressions of future time · The pronoun y · Prepositions 216

48 Near past · Expressions of past time 219

49 Passé composé with avoir 222

50 Passé composé with être · Vacation locales 224

Révision 10 Leçons 46-50 228

Révision Complète Leçons 1-50 231

Answer key 251

Fun facts translations 268