Students learn best when they are connecting - with authentic culture, with each other as a community, and with the language as used in real-world settings. En avant! sparks the curiosity that builds these connections as students drive toward communicative and cultural confidence and proficiency in the introductory classroom. The En avant! program is built around the following distinctive principles: Focused Approach, Active Learning, Integration of Culture, and Mobile Tools for Digital Success: Connect French.
Connect French is a digital teaching and learning environment that is now mobile enabled for tablets, allowing students engage in their course material via the devices they use every day. Connect French facilitates student progress by providing extensive opportunities to practice and hone their developing skills. These learning opportunities include online communicative activities, instant feedback, peer-editing writing tools, sophisticated reporting, and a complete eBook with embedded audio, video, and grammar tutorials. Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need, when they need it, and how they need it, so that your class time is more engaging and effective. Connect is sold separately and does not come automatically with the purchase of the textbook.
Culture en direct has been completely revised to provide instructors with an even wider variety of ways to integrate culture into their programs.
Le coin video: found with the new Culture en direct section, these mini-cultural presentations, filmed specifically for En avant, are presented by an engaging actress.
Le coin lecture: new readings in Chapitres 5, 6, 8, 10, 14, including excerpts from Le Petit Nicolas and Le Petit Prince.
Le coin cine/Le coin chanson: Featured in alternating chapters in the Culture en direct section, the film clip or song and the accompanying activities expose students to authentic language in every chapter.
Le coin beaux-arts: a review feature appearing at the end of every even-numbered chapter, Le coin beaux-arts uses En avant’s beautiful fine art chapter openers as a means to incorporate vocabulary and grammar review, while introducing students to the masterpieces of French art.
An interactive ebook, the complete Workbook/Lab Manual, grammar tutorials, and all the audio and video materials.
LearnSmart, the only super-adaptive learning tool on the market, is proven to significantly enhance students’ learning and improve course outcomes. Available within Connect French and as a mobile app, LearnSmart provides students with targeted feedback specific to their individual performance, and additional practice in areas where students need help the most.
Additional interactive activities using drag-and-drop functionality, embedded audio, voice recorders, and videos targeting key vocabulary, grammar, and cultural content for extra practice.
A comprehensive gradebook to view your assignment results.
Voice Board and Blackboard IM, two powerful tools integrated into Connect French, promote communication and collaboration outside the classroom.
A reduced scope and sequence allows students to concentrate on what they can reasonably be expected to learn in an Introductory French course
Systematic review and recycling of material that has been previously covered to allow students the opportunity to practice putting what they have learned together and truly acquire the language.
Grammar in En avant is taught using an active learning approach, nudging students to discover the language rules through a carefully balanced mix of inductive and explicit grammar presentation
Vocabulaire interactif: these sections use a variety of appealing photos, line art, and texts to present new words and expressions in context. The embedded activities in each encourage students to make form-meaning connections in French, rather than English.
En avant has been carefully constructed around an extensive video program that serves a dual purpose: It introduces new language structures and high-frequency expressions, and it provides a window into the cultures of the French-speaking world.
Chapitre 1 Pour commencer
Communication en direct
Greeting people
Asking someone his or her name
Asking people how they are
Saying good-bye
Vocabulaire intéractif
The French alphabet
Numbers from 0 to 69
Month of the year and days of the week
Grammaire interactive
Singular indefinite articles un and une and the gender of nouns
Plural nouns and the plural indefinite article des
Subject pronouns and the verb être
Use of the definite articles le, la, l’, and les
Culture
Par la suite
More about gender
More about number
Chapitre 2 Comment sont-elles?
Communication en direct
Asking someone’s age
Finding out where someone is from
Finding out someone’s nationality
Vocabulaire intéractif
Describing someone’s personality and appearance
Grammaire interactive
The verb avoir and common expressions using avoir
Basic negation with ne… pas and ne… jamais
Forms of adjectives
Asking yes/no questions with intonation and est-ce que
Culture
Par la suite
Additional expressions with avoir
Additional irregular adjective forms
Chapitre 3 Qu’est-ce que tu aimes faire?
Communication en direct
Asking and telling time
Asking when events occur
Vocabulaire intéractif
Talking about daily activities
Grammaire interactive
Regular –er verbs
The verb faire and expressions with faire
Information questions with est-ce que and inversion
Position of adjectives
Culture
Par la suite
Additional spelling changes
Inversion with nouns
Negation in questions with inversion
Adjectives appearing before and after the noun
Chapitre 4 En famille
Communication en direct
Meeting people and finding out what they do for a living
Finding out what people like to do in their free time
Vocabulaire intéractif
Family members and pets
Grammaire interactive
Noun gender and number
Possessive articles
The verbs être, avoir, and faire
The verbs aller and (re)venir
The form and use of definite articles
Articles and prepositions with geographical locations
The use of present-tense forms of –er verbs
Situation events in the recent past and near future
Culture
Par la suite
Prepositions used with additional geographical locations
Additional temporal expressions
Chapitre 5 Bon appétit!
Communication en direct
Extending, accepting, and politely declining invitations
Ordering in a café
Vocabulaire intéractif
Food stores and food items
Grammaire interactive
The partitive article and expressions of quantity
The verbs boire and prendre
Regular –re verbs
Other negative expressions and the restrictor ne… que
Culture
Par la suite
Use of ne… personne and ne… rien with prepositions
Ne… ni… ni…
Chapitre 6 On est à la mode!
Communication en direct
Asking someone’s opinion
Asking about someone’s preferences
Vocabulaire intéractif
Describing people’s clothing and accessories
Grammaire interactive
The demonstrative articles ce, cet, cette, ces
Verbs in –ir like dormir
The interrogative quel(le)(s)
Verbs in –ir like finir
Culture
Par la suite
Demonstrative pronouns celui, celle, ceux, celles
Interrogative pronouns lequel, laquelle, lesquels, lesquelles
Chapitre 7 Le week-end dernier
Communication en direct
Asking how long and since when
Narrating a series of past events
Vocabulaire intéractif
Talking about entertainment and cultural events
Grammaire interactive
The verbs vouloir, pouvoir, devoir, and savoir
The indefinite pronouns quelqu’un, quelque chose, and quelque part
Talking about past activities using the passé composé
The use of être as auxiliary in the passé composé
Culture
Par la suite
Additional meanings and uses of devoir
Use of both avoir and être as auxiliary
Chapitre 8 L’image de soi
Communication en direct
Asking for advice and recommendations
Asking about someone’s daily routine
Vocabulaire intéractif
Parts of the body
Grammaire interactive
Regular verb groups and irregular verbs
Talking about daily routines using pronominal verbs
The interrogatives qu’est-ce que and quel(le)(s)
Additional forms for asking questions
Use and forms of the passé composé
Using pronominal verbs in the passé composé
Culture
Par la suite
Use of pronominal verbs as passive constructions
Chapitre 9 Chez nous
Communication en direct
Describing what you liked to do in the past
Describing someone or something in the past
Vocabulaire intéractif
Talking about one’s residence
Grammaire interactive
The comparative and superlative of adjectives
Using the imparfait to express habitual actions in the past
Using the imparfait to express ongoing actions and situations in the past
Use of the passé composé versus the imparfait
Culture
Par la suite
Other uses of stressed pronouns
Use of stressed pronouns with –même(s)
The pluperfect
Chapitre 10 Ça se fête!
Communication en direct
Wishing people well on holidays and on special occasions
Asking for an explanation
Vocabulaire intéractif
Talking about holidays and other celebrations
Grammaire interactive
The verbs croire and recevoir; subordinate clauses
Relative clauses with qui, que, and où
Giving commands using the imperative
Synthesis of uses and forms of adverbs
Culture
Par la suite
Relative clauses with dont
The use of ce que, ce qui, and ce dont
Chapitre 11 Trouver son chemin
Communication en direct
Talking about future plans
Finding out if people like what they do
Vocabulaire intéractif
Talking about life’s major milestones
Grammaire interactive
The verbs lire, dire, and écrire
Impersonal use of il
Use of futur simple
Irregular stems in the futur simple
Culture
Par la suite
Spelling changes in future-tense stems
The future perfect
Chapitre 12 En ville
Communication en direct
Asking for and giving directions
Vocabulaire intéractif
Talking about city living
Grammaire interactive
The verbs savoir and croire
The verbs connaître and reconnaître
The comparative and superlative of adjectives
The comparative and superlative of adverbs and nouns
Object pronouns
Synthesis of uses and forms of object pronouns
Pronominal verbs in the passé composé
Use of object pronouns in the passé composé
Culture
Par la suite
Use of multiple object pronouns
Chapitre 13 Bonnes vacances!
Communication en direct
Talking about a hypothetical situation
More hypothetical situations
Vocabulaire intéractif
Talking about vacations and travel
Grammaire interactive
Indicating movement with verbs such as conduire
The conditional mood
Object pronouns with the imperative
Culture
Par la suite
Other verbs ending in –uire
The past conditional
Use of multiple object pronouns
Chapitre 14 Ici, on parle français!
Communication en direct
Asking someone’s opinion about what’s essential or important
Expanding on an opinion by explaining why
Vocabulaire intéractif
Talking about a country’s history and language(s)
Grammaire interactive
Linking verbs to an infinitive with à or de
Specifying groups of people and things using tout/tous/toute(s) and other quantifiers
Saying what one should do using the present subjunctive
Culture
Par la suite
Quantifiers used as pronouns
Spelling changes in subjunctive stems
Chapitre 15 Engagez-vous!
Communication en direct
Expressing one’s level of interest in a topic
Expressing one’s emotional reaction to a topic
Vocabulaire intéractif
Talking about France’s social and environmental issues
Grammaire interactive
Indicating uncertainty by using the present subjunctive
Saying what one wishes using the present subjunctive
Use of an infinitive versus the subjunctive
Culture
Par la suite
The verbs penser, croire, and (se) douter
Additional subjunctive forms (vouloir, pleuvoir, falloir, and valoir)
Avant de and avant que
Après que and the present indicative; après and the past infinitive
Chapitre 16 Une célébration des arts
Communication en direct
Seeking someone’s input
Taking leave of people and wishing them well
Vocabulaire intéractif
Talking about the arts
Grammaire interactive
Regular and irregular verbs in the present tense
Question formation
Subject and object pronouns
Past-tense forms
Culture
Par la suite
Use of en + present participle
Bruce Anderson
Bruce Anderson is a Lecturer in French at The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) where he teaches undergraduate courses on French language and culture. From 2002-2010 he served as the coordinator for beginning- and intermediate-level French courses at the University of California, Davis, where he additionally trained new graduate student instructors in foreign language pedagogy. He holds a Ph.D. in French Linguistics from Indiana University, Bloomington. His research on the acquisition of French as a second language has been published in Applied Linguistics, Second Language Research, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition, among other venues.
Annabelle Dolidon
Culture en direct has been completely revised to provide instructors with an even wider variety of ways to integrate culture into their programs.
Le coin video: found with the new Culture en direct section, these mini-cultural presentations, filmed specifically for En avant, are presented by an engaging actress.
Le coin lecture: new readings in Chapitres 5, 6, 8, 10, 14, including excerpts from Le Petit Nicolas and Le Petit Prince.
Le coin cine/Le coin chanson: Featured in alternating chapters in the Culture en direct section, the film clip or song and the accompanying activities expose students to authentic language in every chapter.
Le coin beaux-arts: a review feature appearing at the end of every even-numbered chapter, Le coin beaux-arts uses En avant’s beautiful fine art chapter openers as a means to incorporate vocabulary and grammar review, while introducing students to the masterpieces of French art.
An interactive ebook, the complete Workbook/Lab Manual, grammar tutorials, and all the audio and video materials.
LearnSmart, the only super-adaptive learning tool on the market, is proven to significantly enhance students’ learning and improve course outcomes. Available within Connect French and as a mobile app, LearnSmart provides students with targeted feedback specific to their individual performance, and additional practice in areas where students need help the most.
Additional interactive activities using drag-and-drop functionality, embedded audio, voice recorders, and videos targeting key vocabulary, grammar, and cultural content for extra practice.
A comprehensive gradebook to view your assignment results.
Voice Board and Blackboard IM, two powerful tools integrated into Connect French, promote communication and collaboration outside the classroom.
A reduced scope and sequence allows students to concentrate on what they can reasonably be expected to learn in an Introductory French course
Systematic review and recycling of material that has been previously covered to allow students the opportunity to practice putting what they have learned together and truly acquire the language.
Grammar in En avant is taught using an active learning approach, nudging students to discover the language rules through a carefully balanced mix of inductive and explicit grammar presentation
Vocabulaire interactif: these sections use a variety of appealing photos, line art, and texts to present new words and expressions in context. The embedded activities in each encourage students to make form-meaning connections in French, rather than English.
En avant has been carefully constructed around an extensive video program that serves a dual purpose: It introduces new language structures and high-frequency expressions, and it provides a window into the cultures of the French-speaking world.
Chapitre 1 Pour commencer
Communication en direct
Greeting people
Asking someone his or her name
Asking people how they are
Saying good-bye
Vocabulaire intéractif
The French alphabet
Numbers from 0 to 69
Month of the year and days of the week
Grammaire interactive
Singular indefinite articles un and une and the gender of nouns
Plural nouns and the plural indefinite article des
Subject pronouns and the verb être
Use of the definite articles le, la, l’, and les
Culture
Par la suite
More about gender
More about number
Chapitre 2 Comment sont-elles?
Communication en direct
Asking someone’s age
Finding out where someone is from
Finding out someone’s nationality
Vocabulaire intéractif
Describing someone’s personality and appearance
Grammaire interactive
The verb avoir and common expressions using avoir
Basic negation with ne… pas and ne… jamais
Forms of adjectives
Asking yes/no questions with intonation and est-ce que
Culture
Par la suite
Additional expressions with avoir
Additional irregular adjective forms
Chapitre 3 Qu’est-ce que tu aimes faire?
Communication en direct
Asking and telling time
Asking when events occur
Vocabulaire intéractif
Talking about daily activities
Grammaire interactive
Regular –er verbs
The verb faire and expressions with faire
Information questions with est-ce que and inversion
Position of adjectives
Culture
Par la suite
Additional spelling changes
Inversion with nouns
Negation in questions with inversion
Adjectives appearing before and after the noun
Chapitre 4 En famille
Communication en direct
Meeting people and finding out what they do for a living
Finding out what people like to do in their free time
Vocabulaire intéractif
Family members and pets
Grammaire interactive
Noun gender and number
Possessive articles
The verbs être, avoir, and faire
The verbs aller and (re)venir
The form and use of definite articles
Articles and prepositions with geographical locations
The use of present-tense forms of –er verbs
Situation events in the recent past and near future
Culture
Par la suite
Prepositions used with additional geographical locations
Additional temporal expressions
Chapitre 5 Bon appétit!
Communication en direct
Extending, accepting, and politely declining invitations
Ordering in a café
Vocabulaire intéractif
Food stores and food items
Grammaire interactive
The partitive article and expressions of quantity
The verbs boire and prendre
Regular –re verbs
Other negative expressions and the restrictor ne… que
Culture
Par la suite
Use of ne… personne and ne… rien with prepositions
Ne… ni… ni…
Chapitre 6 On est à la mode!
Communication en direct
Asking someone’s opinion
Asking about someone’s preferences
Vocabulaire intéractif
Describing people’s clothing and accessories
Grammaire interactive
The demonstrative articles ce, cet, cette, ces
Verbs in –ir like dormir
The interrogative quel(le)(s)
Verbs in –ir like finir
Culture
Par la suite
Demonstrative pronouns celui, celle, ceux, celles
Interrogative pronouns lequel, laquelle, lesquels, lesquelles
Chapitre 7 Le week-end dernier
Communication en direct
Asking how long and since when
Narrating a series of past events
Vocabulaire intéractif
Talking about entertainment and cultural events
Grammaire interactive
The verbs vouloir, pouvoir, devoir, and savoir
The indefinite pronouns quelqu’un, quelque chose, and quelque part
Talking about past activities using the passé composé
The use of être as auxiliary in the passé composé
Culture
Par la suite
Additional meanings and uses of devoir
Use of both avoir and être as auxiliary
Chapitre 8 L’image de soi
Communication en direct
Asking for advice and recommendations
Asking about someone’s daily routine
Vocabulaire intéractif
Parts of the body
Grammaire interactive
Regular verb groups and irregular verbs
Talking about daily routines using pronominal verbs
The interrogatives qu’est-ce que and quel(le)(s)
Additional forms for asking questions
Use and forms of the passé composé
Using pronominal verbs in the passé composé
Culture
Par la suite
Use of pronominal verbs as passive constructions
Chapitre 9 Chez nous
Communication en direct
Describing what you liked to do in the past
Describing someone or something in the past
Vocabulaire intéractif
Talking about one’s residence
Grammaire interactive
The comparative and superlative of adjectives
Using the imparfait to express habitual actions in the past
Using the imparfait to express ongoing actions and situations in the past
Use of the passé composé versus the imparfait
Culture
Par la suite
Other uses of stressed pronouns
Use of stressed pronouns with –même(s)
The pluperfect
Chapitre 10 Ça se fête!
Communication en direct
Wishing people well on holidays and on special occasions
Asking for an explanation
Vocabulaire intéractif
Talking about holidays and other celebrations
Grammaire interactive
The verbs croire and recevoir; subordinate clauses
Relative clauses with qui, que, and où
Giving commands using the imperative
Synthesis of uses and forms of adverbs
Culture
Par la suite
Relative clauses with dont
The use of ce que, ce qui, and ce dont
Chapitre 11 Trouver son chemin
Communication en direct
Talking about future plans
Finding out if people like what they do
Vocabulaire intéractif
Talking about life’s major milestones
Grammaire interactive
The verbs lire, dire, and écrire
Impersonal use of il
Use of futur simple
Irregular stems in the futur simple
Culture
Par la suite
Spelling changes in future-tense stems
The future perfect
Chapitre 12 En ville
Communication en direct
Asking for and giving directions
Vocabulaire intéractif
Talking about city living
Grammaire interactive
The verbs savoir and croire
The verbs connaître and reconnaître
The comparative and superlative of adjectives
The comparative and superlative of adverbs and nouns
Object pronouns
Synthesis of uses and forms of object pronouns
Pronominal verbs in the passé composé
Use of object pronouns in the passé composé
Culture
Par la suite
Use of multiple object pronouns
Chapitre 13 Bonnes vacances!
Communication en direct
Talking about a hypothetical situation
More hypothetical situations
Vocabulaire intéractif
Talking about vacations and travel
Grammaire interactive
Indicating movement with verbs such as conduire
The conditional mood
Object pronouns with the imperative
Culture
Par la suite
Other verbs ending in –uire
The past conditional
Use of multiple object pronouns
Chapitre 14 Ici, on parle français!
Communication en direct
Asking someone’s opinion about what’s essential or important
Expanding on an opinion by explaining why
Vocabulaire intéractif
Talking about a country’s history and language(s)
Grammaire interactive
Linking verbs to an infinitive with à or de
Specifying groups of people and things using tout/tous/toute(s) and other quantifiers
Saying what one should do using the present subjunctive
Culture
Par la suite
Quantifiers used as pronouns
Spelling changes in subjunctive stems
Chapitre 15 Engagez-vous!
Communication en direct
Expressing one’s level of interest in a topic
Expressing one’s emotional reaction to a topic
Vocabulaire intéractif
Talking about France’s social and environmental issues
Grammaire interactive
Indicating uncertainty by using the present subjunctive
Saying what one wishes using the present subjunctive
Use of an infinitive versus the subjunctive
Culture
Par la suite
The verbs penser, croire, and (se) douter
Additional subjunctive forms (vouloir, pleuvoir, falloir, and valoir)
Avant de and avant que
Après que and the present indicative; après and the past infinitive
Chapitre 16 Une célébration des arts
Communication en direct
Seeking someone’s input
Taking leave of people and wishing them well
Vocabulaire intéractif
Talking about the arts
Grammaire interactive
Regular and irregular verbs in the present tense
Question formation
Subject and object pronouns
Past-tense forms
Culture
Par la suite
Use of en + present participle
Bruce Anderson
Bruce Anderson is a Lecturer in French at The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) where he teaches undergraduate courses on French language and culture. From 2002-2010 he served as the coordinator for beginning- and intermediate-level French courses at the University of California, Davis, where he additionally trained new graduate student instructors in foreign language pedagogy. He holds a Ph.D. in French Linguistics from Indiana University, Bloomington. His research on the acquisition of French as a second language has been published in Applied Linguistics, Second Language Research, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition, among other venues.
Annabelle Dolidon
