Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Book I: Speaking in Everyday Settings 7
Chapter 1: Warming Up with Some French Fundamentals 9
Chapter 2: Un, Deux, Trois: Numbers, Dates, and Times 27
Chapter 3: Greetings, Goodbyes, and Small Talk 45
Chapter 4: Getting Personal: Discussing Your Home, Family, and Daily Routine 63
Chapter 5: Talking Business and Politics 85
Chapter 6: Shopping at a Store and Online 101
Chapter 7: Buying, Preparing, and Tasting Foods 121
Book II: Exploring and Wandering About 143
Chapter 1: Making Plans and Discovering New Places 145
Chapter 2: Enjoying a Night on the Town 179
Chapter 3: Money Matters 201
Chapter 4: Home Is Where Your Suitcase Is: Looking for Accommodations 213
Chapter 5: Getting Around 229
Chapter 6: Dealing with Emergencies 249
Book III: Building the Grammatical Foundation for Communication 265
Chapter 1: Building Strong Sentences with the Parts of Speech 267
Chapter 2: All Agreed? Matching Gender and Number of Nouns and Articles 289
Chapter 3: Dealing with the Here and Now: The Present Tense 305
Chapter 4: Commanding and Instructing with the Imperative Mood 331
Chapter 5: Asking and Answering Questions 349
Chapter 6: Communicating Clearly with Infinitives and Present Participles 369
Book IV: Getting Down to Detail and Precision in Your Communication 379
Chapter 1: Specifying Relationships with Prepositions 381
Chapter 2: Describing with Flair: Adjectives and Adverbs 401
Chapter 3: Taking Shortcuts with Object Pronouns 419
Chapter 4: Tying Ideas Together with Conjunctions and Relative Pronouns 439
Chapter 5: Getting That Subjunctive Feeling 453
Chapter 6: What Lies Ahead and What Could Happen: Simple Future and Present Conditional 471
Book V: Going Back in Time 485
Chapter 1: Been There, Done That: Passé Proche and Passé Composé 487
Chapter 2: How Was It? What Was Going On? The Imparfait 503
Chapter 3: To the Past and Beyond: Other Past Tenses 515
Book VI: Appendixes 529
Appendix A: Verb Tables 531
Appendix B: French-English Mini-Dictionary 587
Appendix C: English-French Mini Dictionary 607
Appendix D: Fun & Games 627
Appendix E: About the CD 665
Index 669
