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Do you know French already and want to go a stage further? If you're planning a visit to France, need to brush up your French for work, or are simply doing a course, <EM>Colloquial French 2 is the ideal way to refresh your knowledge of the language and to extend your skills. <EM>Colloquial French 2 is designed to help those involved in self-study, and structured to give you the opportunity to listen to and read lots of modern, everyday French. It has been developed to work systematically on reinforcing and extending your grasp of French grammar and vocabulary. Key features of <EM>Colloquial French 2 include: * a broad range of everyday situations, focusing on France and the wider francophone world * revision: material to help consolidate and build up your basics * a wide range of contemporary documents * spoken and written exercises in each unit * highlighted key structures and phrases, a grammar reference and detailed answer keys * supplementary exercises and French language web-links at www.routledge.
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Colloquial French
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Colloquial French The next step in language learning Elspeth Broady
First published 2003 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor and Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” © 2003 Elspeth Broady All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Broady, Elspeth. Colloquial French 2: the next step in language learning / Elspeth Broady. p. cm – (The colloquial 2 series) 1. French language – Conversation and phrase books – English. 2. French language –Textbooks for foreign speakers – English. 3. French language – Spoken French. I. Title: Colloquial French two. II. Title. III. Series. PC2121B76 2003 448.3′421–dc21 2003009037
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Contents
Acknowledgements How to use this book Unit 1
Renouer contact Getting back in touch
Unit 2
La France et ses villes France and its towns
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Unit 3
En route On the road
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Unit 4
Rendez-vous d’affaires Business meetings
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Unit 5
Travail / loisirs Work and play
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Unit 6
Le sud-ouest The south-west
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Unit 7
La vie en France: mode d’emploi Life in France: practical tips
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Unit 8
A votre santé! Your health
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Unit 9
Communiquer, s’exprime