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Marc Andr Prvost received his degrees from The University of Texas at Austin. He taught seven years at The University of Texas and starting in 1986, he was a professor at Austin Community College. He has coauthored foreign language textbooks since 1986. John McMinn-Reyna is Professor of French and Spanish at Austin Community College, where he has taught since 1986. After doing graduate studies in Romance Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin, he also worked as an editor of high school and college-level programs.Joan Manley is Professor Emeritus from the University of Texas at El Paso. During her 33 years as a faculty member, she gave over 100 workshops and conference presentations and authored 50 journal articles. She was a trainer and tester of the Oral Proficiency Interview, which led to the current emphasis on skill building and proficiency as exemplified in teaching programs such as HORIZONS.Stuart Smith received her degrees and her first training and experience in teaching at the University of Texas at Austin. She has been teaching at Austin Community College since 1981 and has been authoring foreign language textbook and textbook materials since 1986.

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HORIZONS is a complete elementary French program that makes learning French easier through its step-by-step skill-building methodology, flexible and accessible approach to grammar and new vocabulary, and creative and sophisticated coverage of Francophone culture. Through varied interactive activities and clear grammar explanations, the text helps students communicate effectively in French while culturally connecting them to the Francophone world. HORIZONS features a clear, easy-to-follow structure that is ideal for instructors with any level of teaching experience. HORIZONS carefully guides students Competence by Competence, through their first year of elementary French.

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Part I: LE MONDE FRANCOPHONE. Chapitre Prliminaire: On commence! GOCULTURE ET VIDO-VOYAGE: Le monde francophone. COMPTENCE 1. Greeting people. Les formules de politesse. Les salutations familires. COMPTENCE 2. Counting and describing your week. Les nombres de zro cinquante-neuf. Les jours de la semaine. COMPTENCE 3. Talking about yourself and your schedule. Un autoportrait. Lheure. COMPTENCE 4. Communicating in class. En cours. Des expressions utiles et lalphabet. Comparaisons culturelles. Lheure officielle. Part II: SUR LA CTE DAZUR. Chapitre 1. luniversit. GOCULTURE ET VIDO-VOYAGE: La Cte dAzur. COMPTENCE 1: Identifying and describing people. Les gens luniversit. Describing people: Les pronoms sujets, le verbe tre, la ngation et quelques adjectifs. Stratgies et Lecture: Pour mieux lire: Using cognates and familiar words to read for the gist. Lecture: Qui est-ce? COMPTENCE 2: Describing people: La description des gens. Describing and comparing people: Dautres adjectifs et le comparatif. Asking what someone is like: Les questions. COMPTENCE 3: Describing the university area. Le campus et le quartier. Saying what there is: Le genre, larticle indfini et lexpression il y a. Identifying people and things: Cest ou il est / elle est. COMPTENCE 4: Talking about your studies. Luniversit et les cours. Identifying people and things: Larticle dfini. VIDO-REPRISE: Les Stagiaires: pisode 1 Comment sont-ils? LECTURE ET COMPOSITION: Pour mieux lire: Scanning to preview a text. Lecture: Laccent grave. Pour mieux crire: Using and combining what you know. Composition: Un autoportrait. COMPARAISONS CULTURELLES: Les tudes. RSUM DE GRAMMAIRE. VOCABULAIRE. Chapitre 2. Aprs les cours. GOCULTURE ET VIDO-VOYAGE: Nice. COMPTENCE 1: Saying what you like to do. Le temps libre et les loisirs. Saying what you like to do: Linfinitif. Stratgies et Comprhension auditive: Pour mieux comprendre: Listening for specific information. Comprhension auditive: On sort ensemble? COMPTENCE 2: Saying how you spend your free time. Le week-end. Telling what one does, how often, and how well: Les verbes en -er, le pronom on et les adverbes. Saying what one does: Quelques verbes changements orthographiques. COMPTENCE 3: Asking about someones day. La journe. Asking for information: Les mots interrogatifs. Asking questions: Les questions par inversion. COMPTENCE 4: Going to the caf. Au caf. Paying the bill: Les nombres de soixante cent et largent. VIDO-REPRISE: Les Stagiaires: pisode 2 Elle est belle, non? LECTURE ET COMPOSITION: Pour mieux lire: Making intelligent guesses. Lecture: Au Vieux Port de Nice. Pour mieux crire: Using logical order and standard phrases. Composition: Au caf. COMPARAISONS CULTURELLES: Les cafs en France. RSUM DE GRAMMAIRE. VOCABULAIRE. Part III: EN AMRIQUE: AU QUBEC ET EN NOUVELLE-ANGLETERRE. Chapitre 3. Un nouvel appartement. GOCULTURE ET VIDO-VOYAGE: En Amrique: Au Qubec et en Nouvelle-Angleterre. COMPTENCE 1: Talking about where you live. Le logement. Giving prices and other numerical information: Les nombres au-dessus de 100 et les nombres ordinaux. Stratgies et Lecture: Pour mieux lire: Guessing meaning from context. Lecture: Un nouvel appartement. COMPTENCE 2: Talking about your possessions. Dans le salon. Saying what you have: Le verbe avoir. Saying where something is: Quelques prpositions. COMPTENCE 3: Describing your room. Les meubles et les couleurs. Describing things: La place de ladjectif. Identifying your belongings: La possession et les adjectifs possessifs. COMPTENCE 4: Giving your address and phone number. Des renseignements. Telling which one: Les adjectifs ce et quel. VIDO-REPRISE: Les Stagiaires: pisode 3 Un nouvel appartement. LECTURE ET COMPOSITION: Pour mieux lire: Previewing content. Lecture: Les couleurs et leurs effets sur la nature humaine. Pour mieux crire: Brainstorming. Composition: Un mail. COMPARAISONS CULTURELLES: Le Qubec daujourdhui. RSUM DE GRAMMAIRE. VOCABULAIRE. Chapitre 4. En famille. GOCULTURE ET VIDO-VOYAGE: En Amrique: En Louisiane. COMPTENCE 1: Describing your family. Ma famille. Describing feelings and appearance: Les expressions avec avoir. Stratgies et Comprhension auditive: Pour mieux comprendre: Asking for clarification. Comprhension auditive: La famille de Robert. COMPTENCE 2: Saying where you go in your free time. Le temps libre. Saying where you are going: Le verbe aller, la prposition et le pronom y. Giving directions and making suggestions: Limpratif. COMPTENCE 3: Saying what you are going to do. Le week-end prochain. Saying what you are going to do: Le futur immdiat. Saying when you are going to do something: Les dates. COMPTENCE 4: Planning how to get there. Les moyens de transport. Deciding how to get there and come back: Les verbes prendre et venir et les moyens de transport. VIDO-REPRISE: Les Stagiaires: pisode 4 Vive la famille! LECTURE ET COMPOSITION: Pour mieux lire: Using your knowledge of the world. Lecture: Deux mots. Pour mieux crire: Visualizing your topic. Composition: Ma famille. COMPARAISONS CULTURELLES: Lhistoire des Cadiens. RSUM DE GRAMMAIRE. VOCABULAIRE. Part IV: PARIS. Chapitre 5. Les projets. GOCULTURE ET VIDO-VOYAGE: La France et ses rgions. COMPTENCE 1: Saying what you did. Le week-end dernier. Saying what you did: Le pass compos avec avoir. Stratgies et Lecture: Pour mieux lire: Using the sequence of events to make logical guesses. Lecture: Quest-ce quelle a fait? COMPTENCE 2: Telling where you went. Je suis parti(e) en voyage. Telling where you went: Le pass compos avec tre. Telling when you did something: Les expressions qui dsignent le pass et reprise du pass compos. COMPTENCE 3: Discussing the weather and your activities. Le temps et les projets. Talking about the weather and what you do: Le verbe faire, lexpression ne rien et les expressions pour dcrire le temps. Talking about activities: Les expressions avec faire. COMPTENCE 4: Deciding what to wear and buying clothes. Les vtements. Avoiding repetition: Les pronoms le, la, l et les. VIDO-REPRISE: Les Stagiaires: pisode 5 Quest-ce que vous avez fait? …