Overview

Upgrade your French is the ideal guide for students wanting to rapidly improve their written French. It offers a stimulating thirty day revision programme that is guaranteed to improve your skills. In the countdown to exams, students should simply spend between 30 minutes to an hour a day with this book, and see their mark go up a grade! This short revision guide focuses on three key strategies for improving your written French: - Eliminating common errors and slips of the pen - Increasing and consolidating vocabulary - Encouraging more varied language use The new edition is fully revised and includes a new introduction discussing the essential differences between written and spoken French and a new chapter on comparatives and superlatives. This is the ideal book for all intermediate students looking for a simple way to improve their French fast.

Full Product Details

Author:   Margaret Jubb
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Hodder Education
Edition:   2nd New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9780340943137

ISBN 10:   0340943130
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   29 June 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Language:   French

Table of Contents

Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction Day 1: Agreement of verb and subject Day 2: Reporting speech Day 3: The present tense Day 4: Statistics and numbers Day 5: Adjective agreements Day 6: Comparatives and superlatives Day 7: Alternatives to adverbs Day 8: Use of articles Day 9: Quantifiers Day 10: Use of tenses with si Day 11: False friends and Anglicized spelling Day 12: Past tenses Day 13: Expressions of time Day 14: Agreement of past participles Day 15: Pronominal verbs Day 16: The passive Day 17: Alternatives to the passive Day 18: Personal pronouns Day 19: The negative Day 20: Inversion of subject and verb Day 21: Relative pronouns Day 22: The infinitive and present participle Day 23: Logical connectors Day 24: Modal verbs Day 25: Sentence openings Day 26: Conjunctions Day 27: Highlighting and emphasis Day 28: Verb constructions Day 29: Accents, elision and capitalization Day 30: Test: Key points Progress chart Answers to exercises Bibliogrpahy Index

Reviews

The content of the book is well organised. The language pitch used speaks directly to the student, with a friendly tone running throughout the book. It is also informative and reassuring for the less confident. -- Lorna Baines, Francophonie, No. 37, Spring 2008

Author Information

Margaret Jubb is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Aberdeen.

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