Summary:
À plus! is a 2-year course that prepares students fully for the Higher level of the GCSE in years 10 and 11. It has been written specially to fit the requirements of the GCSE exam specifications for teaching from 2009.

This teacing set includes:
A textbook
A teacher's Guide

Written by two highly experienced teachers of GCSE French, À plus! aims to give students the confidence, fluency and linguistic competence required for success at Higher level.
Features of À plus! include:

-coverage of all GCSE topics offered by the GCSE awarding bodies

- a rigorous approach to French grammar and pronunciation, with clear explanations and lots of practice - comprehensive topic-related vocabulary and clear explanations of key language points - carefully developed sequences of activities, giving a balanced approach to the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing
- insights into the culture of Francophone countries - ‘C’est en plus’ sections in each unit to give students extra practice - photocopiable grammar worksheets are provided in the accompanying Teacher Guide with Audio CD (978 1844 897094) and Textbook (978 1844 896271)

• Covers all GCSE topics offered by the main awarding bodies
• Provides clear explanations and opportunities to practise grammar and pronunciation
• Comprehensive topic-related vocabulary with key language points clearly explained
• Carefully delivered activities to give a balanced approach to the skills of listening, reading, speaking and writing
• 'C'est en plus' sections to give students extra practice
• Photocopiable grammar sheets provided in an accompanying Teacher Guide together with recorded texts on 4 free CDs
• Insights into the culture of Francophone countries

Table of Contents:
Salut!
Introduction On se présente
Unité 1 C’est la rentrée!
1 Le retour à l’école
Talk about going back to school
Learn about the French education system
2 Les matières
Talk about school subjects and give your opinion
Ask questions
Use depuis
Use the imperative
3 On décrit les professeurs
Describe and discuss teachers
Describe people’s character and personality
Revise the position of adjectives
4 La routine scolaire
Talk about your school routine
Describe your school
Use reflexive verbs in the present tense
Revise question words
5 Le collège, qu’est-ce que tu en penses?
Give your opinion about your school and school rules
Talk about extra-curricular activities
Revise the immediate future
Use depuis and ça fait…que…
C’est en plus!
Vocabulaire
Unité 2 On se détend
1 Le week-end
Exchange information about your weekend activities and routine
Talk about your hobbies and interests
Use the construction en + present participle
2 Le sport, la musique et les sorties
Talk about sport and music
Understand publicity about leisure activities and public events
Use jouer with à and de
3 Des invitations à sortir
Understand and respond to invitations
Learn how to arrange to meet someone
Use quand? and à quelle heure?
4 Le week-end dernier
Talk about what you did last weekend
Use the perfect tense with avoir
Use the negative in the perfect tense
Learn irregular past participles
5 On assiste à un événement
Exchange information about going to an event
Use the perfect tense with être
Use the expression venir de + infinitive
C’est en plus!
Vocabulaire
Unité 3 Là où j’habite
1 La région où tu habites
Locate your home town and your area
Describe your area and its climate
Use the pronoun y
2 La France et les autres pays
Talk about France and other countries
Talk about nationalities
Use comparatives
Ask questions using où?
Revise French accents
3 Ta ville et ton quartier
Describe your town or village
Talk about your neighbourhood
Use direct object pronouns
4 Vivre en ville et vivre à la campagne
Talk about life in a town and in the country
Discuss, compare and give opinions
Use the negatives ne…rien and ne…personne
5 Chez toi
Describe your house/flat
Say where things are
Use possessive adjectives
Use prepositions
C’est en plus!
Vocabulaire
Unité 4 Bien manger pour être en forme
1 On parle des repas
Talk about food and drink, mealtimes and eating habits
Describe a typical meal and a special meal
Use avant de + infinitive
2 Préférences et recettes
Discuss food and drink preferences
Understand recipes
Use the pronoun en
Use object pronouns with the imperative
Use adverbs
3 La cuisine française et d’ailleurs
Learn about eating trends in France and the UK
Discuss foreign food and fast food
Ask questions using combien? and combien de temps?
4 Bien manger pour être en bonne santé
Talk about healthy diets and healthy lifestyles
Learn to use the negative ne…que
5 La cuisine, la publicité et les médias
Understand information on food packaging
Understand adverts about food and drink
Talk about food programmes
C’est en plus!
Vocabulaire
Unité 5 Parlons loisirs
1 La télévision
Compare television in France with that in the UK
Exchange details and opinions about television programmes
Discuss reasons for watching television
2 La lecture et la radio
Talk about reading preferences
Exchange information about the radio
3 Les loisirs dans ta ville
Describe the leisure facilities in your area
Find out information about leisure facilities
Use ne…plus
4 Le cinéma
Describe a film
Ask for information about films and buying tickets
Use the superlative
5 On parle du passé
Talk about the past
Use the imperfect tense
Understand when to use the imperfect tense or the perfect tense
C’est en plus!
Vocabulaire
Unité 6 On prépare les vacances
1 Les vacances, c’est pour quoi faire?
Give reasons for going on holiday
Talk about preferences for different types of holiday
Use the negative ne…nulle part
2 On choisit sa destination
Decide where to go on holiday
Talk about holiday activities and interests
Use the future tense
3 Comment voyager?
Discuss means of transport
Use the future tense after quand
Ask questions with quel and lequel
4 Où loger pendant les vacances
Discuss different types of holiday accommodation
Make enquiries and book accommodation
5 On contacte l’office de tourisme
Read and understand tourist office documentation
Contact the tourist office
C’est en plus!
Vocabulaire
Unité 7 On arrive en France!
1 Bonne route!
Learn how to understand signs, notices and maps
Learn how to ask and find your way
Learn how to hire a car at the airport
Revise the use of question words
2 Le logement et l’office de tourisme
Learn how to check in at a hotel or a campsite
Learn how to ask for information at the tourist office
Revise negatives
3 Quel temps fera-t-il?
Understand the weather forecast
Talk about holiday plans affected by the weather
4 On prend le bus et le train
Learn about travelling by bus and by train
Learn how to buy tickets and how to read timetables
Learn how to describe a journey
5 Au café et au restaurant
Learn how to order drinks and snacks in a café
Compare restaurants and menus
Discuss eating in a restaurant and learn how to order a meal
Learn about disjunctive and emphatic pronouns
6 On est invités!
Revise forms of address and learn how to write formal invitations
Learn about visiting a French family
C’est en plus!
Vocabulaire
Unité 8 Le shopping
1 Les annonces de magasins
Understand shop adverts
2 Où faire son shopping et ses courses?
Exchange information about shopping facilities in your town and area
Shop for food
Use ne…aucun(e)
Use demonstrative pronouns
3 On parle de la mode
Talk about fashion
Describe and buy clothes
Use qui and que
4 On fait les magasins
Exchange information about shops
Give your opinion about shopping experiences
5 À la poste et à la banque
Ask for information at the post office
Ask for information at a bank
Use the pronouns lui and leur
C’est en plus!
Vocabulaire
Unité 9 On a des problèmes!
1 Café, restaurant, hébergement
Complain about poor service in a café or restaurant
Complain about inadequate accommodation
Use the pluperfect tense
2 On n’est pas satisfait de ses achats
Learn how to describe problems with goods and ask for a refund
Learn how to return or exchange goods
3 Objets perdus, objets trouvés
Describe lost and found objects
Report a theft
Use venir de in the imperfect tense
4 Problèmes de santé
Revise the parts of the body and how to describe aches and pains
Learn what to say at the doctor’s surgery or the chemist’s
Use en + present participle
5 Et si on a un accident?
Describe accidents, breakdowns and emergencies
Use verbs in the passive
C’est en plus!
Vocabulaire
Unité 10 Tu t’entends bien avec eux?
1 Finies les vacances!
Talk about a past holiday
Talk about a past journey
Revise tenses and the passive
2 Les rapports avec la famille
Talk about holidaying with parents
Talk about your relationship with parents and family
3 Tu aides, chez toi?
Describe what you do to help out at home
Talk about the problems this may bring to relationships
Use the après avoir construction
4 Qui sont tes copains?
Describe your best friend
Describe the qualities of a good friend
Revise the future tense
C’est en plus!
Vocabulaire
Unité 11 Le travail et l’argent
1 Les jeunes et le travail
Talk about part-time jobs
Discuss advantages and disadvantages of part-time jobs
2 Trouver un petit boulot
Discuss more benefits and drawbacks of part-time work
Talk about finding work and places of work
Use the relative pronoun dont
3 On parle de l’argent
Explain how much money you get
Describe what you do with your money
Revise direct and indirect object pronouns
Use two pronouns together
4 On téléphone
Learn how to make a phone call and leave a message
Learn how to make arrangements to be contacted by phone
Use aller (imperfect tense) + infinitive
5 Le stage en entreprise
Talk about work experience
Use the relative pronoun où
C’est en plus!
Vocabulaire
Unité 12 Notre environnement
1 Les problèmes écologiques dans le monde
Talk about global environmental problems
Use the conditional tense
2 La pollution et le problème des ressources
Talk about pollution and the overuse of natural resources
3 Le tourisme et l’environnement
Discuss the impact of tourism
Use indefinite adjectives and pronouns
4 Ton environnement local, c’est comment?
Describe your local environment and housing in your area
Discuss ways to improve the local environment
Talk about transport issues in your area and ways to improve the situation
5 Qu’est-ce qu’on peut faire?
Discuss recycling, conservation, renewable materials and energies
Use direct and indirect speech
C’est en plus!
Vocabulaire
Unité 13 Être responsable
1 Les jobs
Read and understand job adverts
2 On pose sa candidature
Learn how to apply for a job
Use impersonal verbs
3 Le chômage et les problèmes sociaux
Talk about unemployment
Talk about what is important to you
Talk about your concerns
Use depuis with the imperfect tense
Use lequel as a relative pronoun
4 Le tabac, l’alcool et la drogue
Talk about smoking and drugs
Understand the consequences of addiction
C’est en plus!
Vocabulaire
Unité 14 L’école, c’est pour quoi faire?
1 La même école pour tout le monde?
Discuss different types of schools
Give reasons for choosing a school
Use verbs followed by an infinitive
2 École ou formation professionnelle?
Discuss further education and training, and reasons for choices made
Learn the present subjunctive
3 La vie au collège, c’est comment?
Talk about school and college issues
Learn more about the subjunctive
4 Être étudiant, c’est facile?
Discuss difficulties encountered in study
Talk about pressure to complete work and do well, and the effects on social life
Suggest ideas for improving the situation
Discuss the benefits of school
C’est en plus!
Vocabulaire
Unité 15 Projets d’avenir
1 Les résolutions et le futur
Talk about the resolutions you made in year 10
Discuss plans for the future
Use direct and indirect speech
2 Arrêter les études pendant 1 an, pour quoi faire?
Talk about reasons for having a break in studies
Discuss advantages and disadvantages of having a break
3 Répondre à l’attente des autres
Discuss the pressures of following an expected career and living up the other people’s expectations
Use direct and indirect speech
C’est en plus!
Vocabulaire
Grammaire
Vocabulaire

About the Author(s):
Authors Yvette Grime has taught extensively at GCSE. She now combines her teaching with working part time as a freelance translator. Jayn Witt is Head of Modern Foreign Languages in an 11-16 comprehensive school and has taught French for over 25 years. Series Editor Mike Thacker is a former Director of the Language Centre at the University of Surrey. He is the author of several textbooks for the teaching of Spanish and has many years of experience as a senior examiner at GCSE and A-level.