Unité 1: Parti !

The Preview programme gives a flavour of Ma France, featuring short clips from several different units

that you can use as taster or a diagnostic tool. Activities based on material presented in "Parti" will help you and your learners to:

• Carry out an initial assessment
• Pick out topic areas where they have strengths or weaknesses
• Check whether the course is right for them
• Get talking about visits to France

Unité 2: En route

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Practise asking for, giving and understanding directions when travelling by car
• Interpret French maps and road signs
• Focus on the pronunciation of names of towns and villages

Unité 3: Les langues

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Talk about members of the family
• Spell out their name and other key words in French
• Explain which languages they speak and how well
• The material presented here also provides an opening for the learners to let you know just what they find hardest about learning to speak and understand French.

Unité 4: Bon marché

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Ask for items and quantities of food at the market
• Ask for help to find things in the supermarket
• Talk about shopping habits and preferences
• Practise listening for and understanding prices

Unité 5: Le travail

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Talk about their job and what it involves
• Discuss working hours
• Find out what ski instructors do in the summer

Unité 6: Très occupé

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Make appointments and plans to meet friends
• Talk about the working day
• Explain a hold up or delay
• Practise pronunciation with tongue twisters

Unité 7: Les enfants, les animaux

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Learn a range of adjectives to describe other people and animals
• Use verbs in the third person to refer to others

Unité 8: Accrobranche

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Give and understand instructions
• Understand written and spoken warnings and give simple ones
• Talk about parts of the body
• Talk about Accrobranche and other adventure sports

Unité 9: Le vin

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Talk about wines and compare them
• Express their particular preferences
• Learn something about the Southern Rhône and its wines

Unité 10: Les repas

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Talk about different types of restaurants and take-away foods
• Express their particular preferences
• Learn something about Lyonnaise cooking

Unité 11: Le gîte

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Talk about the sort of holiday home they are looking for
• Make a booking by phone or via the Internet
• Ask about facilities and services available locally

Unité 12: Une maison à vendre

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Talk about the rooms and features of a house
• Discuss their needs with an estate agent
• Read and understand the key features in property adverts
• Gain some small insight into the property market in France

Unité 13: La randonnée

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Understand directions when out walking
• Talk about the countryside
• Explain what they are going to do in the near future
• Learn something about the coast behind Marseilles

Unité 14: Les plats

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Talk about cooking and ingredients
• Understand and give instructions for making a dish
• Learn something about the regional cuisine, the chefs and restaurants in Lyons

Unité 15: La pharmacie

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Explain their symptoms to a pharmacist
• Ask for a remedy
• Understand the instructions given by the chemist
• Revise or learn the vocabulary for parts of the body
• Learn more about the role of the pharmacist in France

Unité 16: La chambre d'hôte

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Learn something of the delights of the area around Marseilles
• Talk about what they did during a short break away
• Learn more about B & B in France

Unité 17: Les vacances

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Exchange information with others about where they come from
• Ask and answer questions about travel and holidays
• Talk about arrivals / departures / length of stay
• Recognise verbs that need être as an auxiliary in the perfect tense

Unité 18: Le musée

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Describe how things used to be
• Practise giving and understanding key dates from the past
• Check their understanding of key points
• Learn something of the origins of the cinema
• Talk about films they have seen

Unité 19: Le dating

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Exchange information about themselves and their character
• Say what they like to do in their spare time and ask others about it
• Use "tu" to address friends

Unité 20: Les jeux

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Talk more about games and sports
• Ask key questions with quel, qui, quand, qu'est-ce que . ? Etc.
• Learn about the French football scene

Unité 21: Les fleurs

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Express good wishes, condolences and congratulations at significant events
• Learn more about religious and secular festivals in the French calendar
• Order flowers for a special occasion
• Talk about the flowers they like/don't like and explain why

Unité 22: L'hôtel

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Ask for what they need in a hotel
• Make polite requests using the conditional tense

Unité 23: Bricolez

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to: Talk about the work needed on an old house

• Explain their plans for the future
• Talk about the different craftsmen who work on a house

Unité 24: Les infos

Activities based on this unit will help your learners to:

• Express opinions about issues in the news and about the weather
• Listen for information on the weather forecast
• Talk about the climate and climate change
• Learn something about the life of a journalist on local radio
• Find out about cultural and leisure events in a ski resort