Summary: 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.
New introduction discusses the differences between spoken and written FrenchNew unit focuses on comparatives and superlativesIncreases and consolidates vocabularyIntroduces more complex and varied sentence structureIdentifies common errors and how to avoid themManageable 30 day structure stimulates interest and produces tangible and rapid results
Table of Contents: DedicationAcknowledgementsIntroductionDay 1: Agreement of verb and subjectDay 2: Reporting speechDay 3: The present tenseDay 4: Statistics and numbersDay 5: Adjective agreementsDay 6: Comparatives and superlativesDay 7: Alternatives to adverbsDay 8: Use of articlesDay 9: QuantifiersDay 10: Use of tenses with siDay 11: False friends and Anglicized spellingDay 12: Past tensesDay 13: Expressions of timeDay 14: Agreement of past participlesDay 15: Pronominal verbsDay 16: The passiveDay 17: Alternatives to the passiveDay 18: Personal pronounsDay 19: The negativeDay 20: Inversion of subject and verbDay 21: Relative pronounsDay 22: The infinitive and present participleDay 23: Logical connectorsDay 24: Modal verbsDay 25: Sentence openingsDay 26: ConjunctionsDay 27: Highlighting and emphasisDay 28: Verb constructionsDay 29: Accents, elision and capitalizationDay 30: Test: Key pointsProgress chartAnswers to exercisesBibliogrpahyIndex
About the Author(s): Margaret Jubb is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Aberdeen.
Readership: Undergraduates revising for first year exams
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."
