Horizons, Student Edition: Introductory French

HORIZONS is user-friendly for instructors of all backgrounds and includes annotations to indicate lesson plans, suggest additional activities, and provide further cultural and linguistic information. Strategies and cues for learning new vocabulary and structures, making use of concise and clear grammar explanations, and making use of self-checks and the grammar reviews render learning easier for students.

HORIZONS has a clear, easy-to-follow structure, with each chapter organized by four color-coded “Compétence” sections based on a specific language function. This organization facilitates effective instruction and enhances student learning.

HORIZONS strongly emphasizes the importance of effective learning strategies with expanded reading and listening strategies and reading and writing strategies included throughout the text. Reading and writing activities include an appealing mix of literary readings and magazine-style articles.

Grammar review sections called “Résumé de grammaire” are located at the end of each chapter to reinforce the student-friendly organization by summarizing new grammar from the chapter on a two-page spread to make for easy student review.

The “Lecture et Composition” section in each chapter helps students become better writers through a range of process-based writing tasks, including taking notes, exchanging compositions with classmates, and producing short pieces of written work.

A broad array of culture-based activities, notes, and readings set in a different part of the French-speaking world brings culture to life for students. Chapter-ending “Comparaisons culturelles” encourage students to make cross-cultural connections, while “Notes culturelles” annotations provide unique and valuable sociolinguistic insights.

A video, “Les Stagiaires,” created specifically for HORIZONS, integrates the vocabulary and grammar from each chapter into a storyline of two new interns working at an office. Their daily interactions and adventures with their co-workers depict real-life uses of French in a variety of situations, allowing students to practice listening skills with the vocabulary and structures they have studied up to that point. Brief episodes appearing in the Vidéoreprise section of each chapter are accompanied by pre- and post-viewing activities, as well as grammar- and vocabulary-based activities.

NEW Géoculture et Vidéo-voyages (geo-cultural sections) have been added to present the latest cultural evolutions with engaging video segments.

NEW Learning Path: Horizons guides online instruction with a carefully designed “learning path” to take students step-by-step through each chapter. This process is fundamental to their success and includes a short introduction to the broad content; lively presentations of key topics and content; brief comprehension checks; abundant opportunities for practice and for using the content in context though collaboration tools, and finally an opportunity to self-evaluate using a checklist of what they are expected to be able to accomplish after completing the chapter.

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