TY - BOOK AU - Kurbegov, Eliane TI - Practice makes perfect: basic French SN - 9780071634694 AV - PC 2112 .K87 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill, KW - FRENCH LANGUAGE KW - GRAMMAR N1 - Introduction -- 1. Definite articles - Family -- 2. Indefinite articles - Around the house -- 3. J'ai and je veux - Animals -- 4. Il y a - The classroom -- 5. Subject pronouns - common -er verbs - regular -er verbs - Days of the week -- 6. Clothing -Er verb endings -- 7. -Ir verbs - Food and beverages -- 8. -Ir verb endings - Common -ir verbs -- 9. Adjectives - Colors - Likes and dislikes -- 10. Descriptive adjectives - More than -- 11. Regular -re verb - Common -re verbs -- 12. Asking questions - Interrogative -- 13. The ver etre - Occupations -- 14. Possessive adjectives - Using the verb etre -- 15. The verb avoir - inside the house -- 16. Bags adjectives - Locations -- 17. Moods and emotions -- 18. Comment ca va? - Health and fitness - Contractions with a -- 19. Vouloir - More clothes -- 20. Numbers - Age - Expressions with avoir 21. Faire - Weather - Seasons -- 22. Expressions with faire - Sports -Games -Music - Contractions with de -- 23. Telling time -- 24. Aller - Transportation -- 25. Dire - Ecrire - Things to tell, write, and read -- 26. Pouvoir - Adverbs -- 27. Devoir - Two verbs constructions - Adverbs of time -- 28. Two-verb questions - More food -- 29. Comparative adverbs and adjectives -- 30. Prepositions +verb - II Fault - More things in the house -- 31. Demonstrative adjectives - Common stem-changing -er verbs - Expressions -- 32. Jeter - Appeler - The forms of vieux, beau, nouveau - Friends -- 33. -Er verbs with e→è stem change - prepositions: location of things and people -- 34. Er verbs with é→è stem change - More precisions (place, time, and people) - Part of the day -- 35. -Er verbs with y→i stem change - Near future: aller + infinitive - Near past: venir de + infinitive -- 36. Direct object pronouns - Gifts -- 37. Savoir - Hobbies - Ne... pas -- 38. Connaitre - The neighborhood - Countries and states -- 39. Savoir and connaitre -- 40. Using de and à plus noun - Adverbs of negation -- 41. Irregular -ir verbs: sentir, sortir, partir, dormir - Adverbial phrases -- 42. Reflexive pronouns - Reflexive verbs - Parts of the body - Feelings -- 44. Venir - Se souvenir - The object pronouns en -- 45. Offrir - Personal object pronouns: me, te, nous, vous, lui, leur -- 46. The family of prendre - Language - Stress pronouns - Prepositional phrases -- 47. Near future - Expressions of past time -- 48. Near past - Expressions of past time -- 49. Passé composé with avoir -- 50. Passé composé with ê - Vacation locales -- Answer key -- Fun facts translation N2 - "Practice makes perfect: basic French is a trusted companion to your French learning experience. In each bite-sized lesson, author Eliane Kurbegov guides you through simples grammar and vocabulary concepts and illustrates them with clear examples." -- Back cover ER -