Touche ! 1 Student Book and CD-ROM Pack

Touché ! provides a fresh, easy-to-use choice for busy teachers of French. With six semester-length, topic-based stages, Touché ! is geared to the crucial middle years where student motivation and experience of progress are so important.

Student Book Key features

• Semester-length, sequential stages allow greater flexibility of usage
• Focus on the francophone world, including Besançon, New Caledonia and Quebec
• Engaging cartoon stories,‘photoon’ stories and higher level texts
• Explicit statements of learning outcomes — students can monitor their own progress
• A carefully phased, confidence-building approach to speaking skills
• Wide range of text types provide varied listening, reading and writing practice
• Attention to cultural understanding and intercultural comparisons
• Extension tasks, original songs and games allow a change of pace
• Clear instructions help students work effectively and independently

CD Key features:

• Cartoon story replay and practice (students record their own voice).
• Pronunciation activities (students record their own voice).
• PowerPoint writing activities.
• Cultural activities.
• Vocabulary games.
• Unit review quiz.
• Record keeping.

Recommended CD Specifications

PC

• 233 MHz or higher
• Windows® 2000, ME or XP
• Microsoft® Office 2000 or XP
• 128MB or more of installed RAM
• Adobe® Reader® 8 or 9
• Microphone required for some activities

Mac

• G3 or higher
• OSX 2.8 or higher
• Microsoft® Office for Mac 2001, XP or 2004
• 128MB or more of installed RAM
• Adobe® Reader® 8 or 9
• Microphone required for some activities

 

Pearson takes great pride in our authors. We source authors and contributors that are industry leading experts, with extensive experience of teaching and learning in their fields, from every state of Australia. We commission only the best authors who offer valuable insights and something unique to bring to the project.
Contributing Authors: Michael Keast, Catherine Willoughby, James Griffiths, Doriana Previati, Philippe Vallantin, Isabelle Mangeot-Hewison and Michael Bate.

Suitable for Upper Primary - Junior Secondary French students.

Touché ! is an easy-to-use course combining clever language-learning strategies with great student appeal. Geared to the middle years, Touché ! caters for a range of student abilities and learning styles, stimulates student motivation and promotes real progress.