Since it was first published, French in Action has been widely recognized as the first fully integrated course incorporating video, audio, and print and has been used in more than 2,000 institutions by more than 200,000 students.
This groundbreaking, critcally acclaimed approach helps students use real, unsimplified French in the dynamic context of actual communication.
A video instructional series in French for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 52 half-hour video programs in DVD format. Also available (but not included) with this set are audiocassettes, coordinated books, study guides, exams, and test banks. For purchase information, go to http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/FiA/FrenchinAction.html
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This series uses active participation to increase fluency in French, while introducing French culture. Pierre Capretz’s proven language-immersion method is presented within a humorous teleplay with native speakers of all ages and backgrounds. The storyline of an American student and a young Frenchwoman's adventures in Paris and the French countryside is reinforced by Dr. Capretz’s on-camera instruction. The series is also appropriate for teacher professional development.
Program Details
Orientation
An introduction to French in Action: its creation, its components, and its functioning. How to work with the video programs and how to integrate them with the audio and print components. This is the only program in English; the
others are entirely in French.
Planning and Anticipating I
Greeting and leave-taking; talking about health; expressing surprise; planning
and anticipating; expressing decisiveness and indecisiveness. Subject
pronouns; masculine and feminine adjectives and nouns; definite and indefinite
articles; immediate future; agreement in gender and number; aller; être; present
indicative of -er verbs.
Planning and Anticipating II
Greeting and leave-taking; talking about health; expressing surprise; planning
and anticipating; expressing decisiveness and indecisiveness. Subject
pronouns; masculine and feminine adjectives and nouns; definite and indefinite
articles; immediate future; agreement in gender and number; aller; être; present
indicative of -er verbs.
Planning and Anticipating III
Greeting and leave-taking; talking about health; expressing surprise; planning
and anticipating; expressing decisiveness and indecisiveness. Subject
pronouns; masculine and feminine adjectives and nouns; definite and indefinite
articles; immediate future; agreement in gender and number; aller; être; present
indicative of -er verbs.
Names and Origins
Numbers; expressing age; giving commands; necessity; negation. Numbers
1-29; avoir; avoir in expressions of age; ne ... pas; imperatives of -er verbs; il
faut and infinitives.
Physical Characteristics I
Reality and appearance; describing oneself; talking about sports. Numbers
30-100; faire; aimer and faire with sports; questions with intonation,
inversion, and est-ce que.
Physical Characteristics II
Reality and appearance; describing oneself; talking about sports. Numbers
30-100; faire; aimer and faire with sports; questions with intonation,
inversion, and est-ce que.
Kinship
Talking about family relationships; asking the identity of people and things.
Numbers 100-999,000,000; dates; partitive; possessive adjectives.
Describing Others I
Describing others; talking about games; expressing agreement and
disagreement; talking about time; talking about the weather. Present tense with
il y a ... que and ça fait ... que; possessive and demonstrative adjectives;
stressed pronouns; venir; savoir versus connaître.
Describing Others II
Describing others; talking about games; expressing agreement and
disagreement; talking about time; talking about the weather. Present tense with
il y a ... que and ça fait ... que; possessive and demonstrative adjectives;
stressed pronouns; venir; savoir versus connaître.
Encounters I
Starting a conversation; talking about seasons and time of day; exclamations;
talking about studies; referring to lack and abundance; expressing approval and
disapproval; reacting to compliments; expressing politeness. Immediate past
with venir de; direct object pronouns; reflexive verbs; imperative and
pronouns; demonstrative adjectives and pronouns; interrogative adjectives and
pronouns; parler versus dire; imperfect; imperfect of être and avoir.
Encounters II
Starting a conversation; talking about seasons and time of day; exclamations;
talking about studies; referring to lack and abundance; expressing approval and
disapproval; reacting to compliments; expressing politeness. Immediate past
with venir de; direct object pronouns; reflexive verbs; imperative and
pronouns; demonstrative adjectives and pronouns; interrogative adjectives and
pronouns; parler versus dire; imperfect; imperfect of être and avoir.
Encounters III
Starting a conversation; talking about seasons and time of day; exclamations;
talking about studies; referring to lack and abundance; expressing approval and
disapproval; reacting to compliments; expressing politeness. Immediate past
with venir de; direct object pronouns; reflexive verbs; imperative and
pronouns; demonstrative adjectives and pronouns; interrogative adjectives and
pronouns; parler versus dire; imperfect; imperfect of être and avoir.
Encounters IV
Starting a conversation; talking about seasons and time of day; exclamations;
talking about studies; referring to lack and abundance; expressing approval and
disapproval; reacting to compliments; expressing politeness. Immediate past
with venir de; direct object pronouns; reflexive verbs; imperative and
pronouns; demonstrative adjectives and pronouns; interrogative adjectives and
pronouns; parler versus dire; imperfect; imperfect of être and avoir.
Occupations I
Talking about work; degrees of assent; days and months of the year; buying
and spending; approximating; talking about years and centuries. Aller versus
venir; prepositions; contractions of definite article with de and à; adverbial
pronouns y and en; vouloir, pouvoir; c’est versus il/elle est; ne ... plus, ne ...
jamais; pronoun on; indirect object pronouns; formation of adverbs.
Occupations II
Talking about work; degrees of assent; days and months of the year; buying
and spending; approximating; talking about years and centuries. Aller versus
venir; prepositions; contractions of definite article with de and à; adverbial
pronouns y and en; vouloir, pouvoir; c’est versus il/elle est; ne ... plus, ne ...
jamais; pronoun on; indirect object pronouns; formation of adverbs.
Occupations III
Talking about work; degrees of assent; days and months of the year; buying
and spending; approximating; talking about years and centuries. Aller versus
venir; prepositions; contractions of definite article with de and à; adverbial
pronouns y and en; vouloir, pouvoir; c’est versus il/elle est; ne ... plus, ne ...
jamais; pronoun on; indirect object pronouns; formation of adverbs.
Occupations IV
Talking about work; degrees of assent; days and months of the year; buying
and spending; approximating; talking about years and centuries. Aller versus
venir; prepositions; contractions of definite article with de and à; adverbial
pronouns y and en; vouloir, pouvoir; c’est versus il/elle est; ne ... plus, ne ...
jamais; pronoun on; indirect object pronouns; formation of adverbs.
Education I
Identification and description; talking about occupations; talking back; excusing
oneself; expressing incredulity. Passé composé; plaire; negation with jamais,
rien, personne; mettre, boire; passé composé and direct object pronouns;
savoir and infinitives; agreement of past participle with avoir.
Education II
Identification and description; talking about occupations; talking back; excusing
oneself; expressing incredulity. Passé composé; plaire; negation with jamais,
rien, personne; mettre, boire; passé composé and direct object pronouns;
savoir and infinitives; agreement of past participle with avoir.
Education III
Identification and description; talking about occupations; talking back; excusing
oneself; expressing incredulity. Passé composé; plaire; negation with jamais,
rien, personne; mettre, boire; passé composé and direct object pronouns;
savoir and infinitives; agreement of past participle with avoir.
Getting Around I
Using the telephone; receiving invitations; expressing optimism and pessimism.
Passé composé of reflexive verbs; passé composé with être; agreement of past
participles; future.
Getting Around II
Using the telephone; receiving invitations; expressing optimism and pessimism.
Passé composé of reflexive verbs; passé composé with être; agreement of past
participles; future.
Food and Drink I
Talking about food and drink; ordering in a restaurant; thanking hosts. Future
of irregular verbs; relative pronouns qui and que; imperative with direct and
indirect object pronouns; position of en with object pronouns; ne ... que;
expressions of quantity; vowel change e/è.
Food and Drink II
Talking about food and drink; ordering in a restaurant; thanking hosts. Future
of irregular verbs; relative pronouns qui and que; imperative with direct and
indirect object pronouns; position of en with object pronouns; ne ... que;
expressions of quantity; vowel change e/è.
Food and Drink III
Talking about food and drink; ordering in a restaurant; thanking hosts. Future
of irregular verbs; relative pronouns qui and que; imperative with direct and
indirect object pronouns; position of en with object pronouns; ne ... que;
expressions of quantity; vowel change e/è.
Transportation and Travel I
Expressing fear; insisting; talking about means of transportation; talking about
cars; expressing admiration; making suggestions. Pluperfect; conditional;
conditional and imperfect; past conditional; compound tenses and past
participles; agreement of past participles; expressions of time.
Transportation and Travel II
Expressing fear; insisting; talking about means of transportation; talking about
cars; expressing admiration; making suggestions. Pluperfect; conditional;
conditional and imperfect; past conditional; compound tenses and past
participles; agreement of past participles; expressions of time.
Transportation and Travel III
Expressing fear; insisting; talking about means of transportation; talking about
cars; expressing admiration; making suggestions. Pluperfect; conditional;
conditional and imperfect; past conditional; compound tenses and past
participles; agreement of past participles; expressions of time.
Transportation and Travel IV
Expressing fear; insisting; talking about means of transportation; talking about
cars; expressing admiration; making suggestions. Pluperfect; conditional;
conditional and imperfect; past conditional; compound tenses and past
participles; agreement of past participles; expressions of time.
Transportation and Travel V
Expressing fear; insisting; talking about means of transportation; talking about
cars; expressing admiration; making suggestions. Pluperfect; conditional;
conditional and imperfect; past conditional; compound tenses and past
participles; agreement of past participles; expressions of time.
Habitat I
Asking one's way; talking about housing; protesting; expressing satisfaction
and dissatisfaction. Imperfect and passé composé; irregular imperatives;
causative faire; faire versus rendre; en and present participle; ni ... ni.
Habitat II
Asking one's way; talking about housing; protesting; expressing satisfaction
and dissatisfaction. Imperfect and passé composé; irregular imperatives;
causative faire; faire versus rendre; en and present participle; ni ... ni.
Habitat III
Asking one's way; talking about housing; protesting; expressing satisfaction
and dissatisfaction. Imperfect and passé composé; irregular imperatives;
causative faire; faire versus rendre; en and present participle; ni ... ni.
Habitat IV
Asking one's way; talking about housing; protesting; expressing satisfaction
and dissatisfaction. Imperfect and passé composé; irregular imperatives;
causative faire; faire versus rendre; en and present participle; ni ... ni.
Entertainment I
Talking about entertainment; calming others down; expressing restriction;
expressing reservations; expressing doubt; expressing enthusiasm. Indefinite
expressions; subjunctive; subjunctive of irregular verbs; subjunctive with
falloir and expressions of doubt; position of souvent, toujours, jamais; verbs
in -yer; personne and rien as subjects and objects.
Entertainment II
Talking about entertainment; calming others down; expressing restriction;
expressing reservations; expressing doubt; expressing enthusiasm. Indefinite
expressions; subjunctive; subjunctive of irregular verbs; subjunctive with
falloir and expressions of doubt; position of souvent, toujours, jamais; verbs
in -yer; personne and rien as subjects and objects.
Entertainment III
Talking about entertainment; calming others down; expressing restriction;
expressing reservations; expressing doubt; expressing enthusiasm. Indefinite
expressions; subjunctive; subjunctive of irregular verbs; subjunctive with
falloir and expressions of doubt; position of souvent, toujours, jamais; verbs
in -yer; personne and rien as subjects and objects.
Entertainment IV
Talking about entertainment; calming others down; expressing restriction;
expressing reservations; expressing doubt; expressing enthusiasm. Indefinite
expressions; subjunctive; subjunctive of irregular verbs; subjunctive with
falloir and expressions of doubt; position of souvent, toujours, jamais; verbs
in -yer; personne and rien as subjects and objects.
Entertainment V
Talking about entertainment; calming others down; expressing restriction;
expressing reservations; expressing doubt; expressing enthusiasm. Indefinite
expressions; subjunctive; subjunctive of irregular verbs; subjunctive with
falloir and expressions of doubt; position of souvent, toujours, jamais; verbs
in -yer; personne and rien as subjects and objects.
Getting and Spending I
Talking about money; buying and selling; announcing good and bad news;
expressing indifference; talking about good and bad luck; expressing
preference. Subjunctive in conditional sentences with conjunctions in relative
clauses; personne and rien with compound tenses; position of déjà and
encore; plus rien, jamais rien; comparatives and superlatives; superlative and
subjunctive; relative pronouns ce qui, ce que; demonstrative pronouns.
Getting and Spending II
Talking about money; buying and selling; announcing good and bad news;
expressing indifference; talking about good and bad luck; expressing
preference. Subjunctive in conditional sentences with conjunctions in relative
clauses; personne and rien with compound tenses; position of déjà and
encore; plus rien, jamais rien; comparatives and superlatives; superlative and
subjunctive; relative pronouns ce qui, ce que; demonstrative pronouns.
Getting and Spending III
Talking about money; buying and selling; announcing good and bad news;
expressing indifference; talking about good and bad luck; expressing
preference. Subjunctive in conditional sentences with conjunctions in relative
clauses; personne and rien with compound tenses; position of déjà and
encore; plus rien, jamais rien; comparatives and superlatives; superlative and
subjunctive; relative pronouns ce qui, ce que; demonstrative pronouns.
Getting and Spending IV
Talking about money; buying and selling; announcing good and bad news;
expressing indifference; talking about good and bad luck; expressing
preference. Subjunctive in conditional sentences with conjunctions in relative
clauses; personne and rien with compound tenses; position of déjà and
encore; plus rien, jamais rien; comparatives and superlatives; superlative and
subjunctive; relative pronouns ce qui, ce que; demonstrative pronouns.
Getting and Spending V
Talking about money; buying and selling; announcing good and bad news;
expressing indifference; talking about good and bad luck; expressing
preference. Subjunctive in conditional sentences with conjunctions in relative
clauses; personne and rien with compound tenses; position of déjà and
encore; plus rien, jamais rien; comparatives and superlatives; superlative and
subjunctive; relative pronouns ce qui, ce que; demonstrative pronouns.
Geography and Tourism I
Talking about countries and regions; exaggerating; confirming; insisting;
expressing perplexity. Conditional in intentional expressions; dont; pronoun
tout; possessive pronouns; irregular subjunctives; subjunctive in subordinate
clauses; future in the past; penser de versus penser à; articles and prepositions
with geographical names.
Geography and Tourism II
Talking about countries and regions; exaggerating; confirming; insisting;
expressing perplexity. Conditional in intentional expressions; dont; pronoun
tout; possessive pronouns; irregular subjunctives; subjunctive in subordinate
clauses; future in the past; penser de versus penser à; articles and prepositions
with geographical names.
Geography and Tourism III
Talking about countries and regions; exaggerating; confirming; insisting;
expressing perplexity. Conditional in intentional expressions; dont; pronoun
tout; possessive pronouns; irregular subjunctives; subjunctive in subordinate
clauses; future in the past; penser de versus penser à; articles and prepositions
with geographical names.
Geography and Tourism IV
Talking about countries and regions; exaggerating; confirming; insisting;
expressing perplexity. Conditional in intentional expressions; dont; pronoun
tout; possessive pronouns; irregular subjunctives; subjunctive in subordinate
clauses; future in the past; penser de versus penser à; articles and prepositions
with geographical names.
Geography and Tourism V
Talking about countries and regions; exaggerating; confirming; insisting;
expressing perplexity. Conditional in intentional expressions; dont; pronoun
tout; possessive pronouns; irregular subjunctives; subjunctive in subordinate
clauses; future in the past; penser de versus penser à; articles and prepositions
with geographical names.
Getting Away I
Referring to destination; levels of speech. Negative infinitive; imperatives and
pronouns.
Getting Away II
Referring to destination; levels of speech. Negative infinitive; imperatives and
pronouns.