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Rochester, Myrna Bell. Easy French Step-by-Step. McGraw-Hill, 2008.

Easy French Step-by-Step

Authors: Myrna Bell Rochester

Published:  December 2008

eISBN: 9780071642217 0071642218 | ISBN: 9780071453875
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • I: First Elements of French
  • 1 Nouns, Articles, and Descriptive Adjectives
  • Gender and Number of Nouns and Articles
  • The Definite Article
  • The Indefinite Article
  • Plural Nouns
  • Descriptive Adjectives
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Key Vocabulary
  • 2 The Verbs être and avoir, Subject Pronouns, and Negation
  • The Verb
  • The Verbs être (to be) and avoir (to have)
  • Être and Subject Pronouns
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Negation with ne... pas
  • The Verb avoir (to have)
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Reading Comprehension: La maison de Jean-Pierre
  • 3 Days and Months, Regular -er Verbs in the Present Tense, and Interrogatives
  • Days of the Week, Months, and Seasons
  • Regular Verbs in the Present Tense
  • Conjugating Regular -er Verbs
  • Uses of the Present Tense
  • Interrogatives and Interrogative Words
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Reading Comprehension: Une petite ville en province
  • 4 Numbers, Dates, and Time and Regular -ir Verbs in the Present Tense
  • Cardinal Numbers
  • Ordinal Numbers
  • The Date and the Year
  • Telling Time
  • Regular -ir Verbs in the Present Tense
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Reading Comprehension: Au restaurant
  • 5 Regular -re Verbs in the Present Tense and -er Verbs with Spelling Changes
  • Regular -re Verbs in the Present Tense
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Depuis Versus Since
  • -er Verbs with Spelling Changes
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Reading Comprehension: En ville
  • 6 Expressing the Future with aller, Prepositions, and the Verb faire
  • The Verb aller (to go)
  • Key Vocabulary
  • À, de, and Other Prepositions
  • Interrogatives with Prepositions
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Prepositions with Geographical Names
  • The Verb faire (to do; to make)
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Reading Comprehension: Des projets de vacances
  • 7 Irregular Verbs I and Verb + Verb Constructions
  • Learning Irregular Verbs
  • Verbs like partir (to leave, depart)
  • Verbs like venir (to come; to arrive)
  • Dire (to say, tell), lire (to read), and écrire (to write)
  • Verbs like mettre (to put [on], place)
  • Pouvoir (to be able to) and vouloir (to want to, wish to)
  • The Verb devoir (to have to; to owe)
  • Verbs like recevoir (to receive; to have guests)
  • Verb + Verb Constructions
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Reading Comprehension: Mes décisions
  • 8 Irregular Verbs II and Relative Pronouns
  • Connaître (to know, be acquainted with) Versus savoir (to know [facts])
  • Voir (to see) and croire (to believe)
  • Courir (to run) and rire (to laugh)
  • The Group offrir (to offer)
  • The Group conduire (to drive; to lead)
  • Suivre (to follow; to take a course) and vivre (to live)
  • The Group craindre (to be afraid of)
  • Relative Pronouns: qui, que, où, dont, and lequel
  • Indefinite Relative Pronouns: Statements from Questions
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Reading Comprehension: Une nouvelle carrière
  • 9 Prendre and boire, the Partitive Article, and Object Pronouns
  • The Group prendre and the Verb boire
  • The Partitive Article
  • Direct Objects
  • Indirect Objects
  • The Pronouns y and en
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Reading Comprehension: Le jardin zoologique idéal
  • 10 Possessives, Demonstratives, Comparatives, and Adverbs
  • Possessive Adjectives and Pronouns
  • Demonstrative Adjectives and Pronouns
  • Comparatives and Superlatives
  • Adverbs
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Reading Comprehension: La famille française moderne
  • II: Affirmative and Negative Expressions, Forming the Imperative, and Using Pronominal Verbs
  • 11 Affirmatives Versus Negatives, Stressed Pronouns, and the Imperative
  • More Ways to Say Yes and No
  • Stressed Pronouns
  • The Imperative and Its Forms
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Reading Comprehension: Un week-end de bricolage
  • 12 Reflexive Pronouns with Pronominal Verbs and the Present Participle
  • What Is a Pronominal Verb?
  • Reflexive Verbs
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Pronominal Verbs in Infinitive Constructions
  • Pronominal Verbs: Negative, Interrogative, and Imperative Forms
  • Reflexive Verbs with Parts of the Body
  • Reciprocal Reflexive Verbs
  • Idiomatic Pronominal Verbs
  • The Present Participle
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Reading Comprehension: Un accueil chaleureux?
  • III: The Past and Future Tenses, the Conditional, and the Subjunctive Mood
  • 13 Forms and Uses of the passé composé
  • What Is the passé composé?
  • Formation of the passé composé with avoir
  • Regular and Irregular Past Participles
  • Negatives, Interrogatives, and Adverbs with the passé composé
  • Key Vocabulary
  • The passé composé with être
  • The passé composé with Object Pronouns
  • The passé composé of Pronominal Verbs
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Reading Comprehension: Une soirée mouvementée
  • 14 The imparfait, Past Narration, and More About Object Pronouns
  • Summary of the passé composé
  • The imparfait (Imperfect Tense)
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Narration: The passé composé and the imparfait Used Together
  • More About Object Pronouns
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Reading Comprehension: Un voyage mémorable
  • 15 The Future Tense, the Conditional, and Indefinite Adjectives and Pronouns
  • The Future Tense
  • The Conditional
  • The Pluperfect and the Past Conditional
  • Tout and Other Indefinite Adjectives and Pronouns
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Reading Comprehension: Rêves d’avenir
  • 16 The Subjunctive
  • The Subjunctive Mood
  • Forms of the Present Subjunctive
  • Uses of the Subjunctive
  • Key Vocabulary
  • Reading Comprehension: Créer des liens
  • Answer Key
  • Index