Collage is one of the most widely used and highly respected programs for intermediate French courses. As in previous editions, Collage is a component program and consists of a grammar review (Collage: Révision de grammaire), a cultural reader (Collage: Variétés culturelles, and a literary reader (Collage: Lectures littéraires). The program is coordinated by theme and by content, chapter by chapter across all 3 books.

The result is a very flexible program that can be used in any combination and can be easily adapted to suit a wide variety of instructors and courses. The new edition of Collage retains the flexible format that works so well in the classroom, and offers a host of new features as well as a streamlined grammar presentation. The Fifth edition of Collage continues to introduce students to francophone countries and cultures throughout all of the components.

Features:


A new feature that begins each grammar presentation, "Que savez-vous déjà?", (What do you already know?) helps instructors and students quickly assess how much information has been retained from previous study of the chapters' structures.

Inviting, extended captions accompanying the opening photo in all chapters address students directly and motivate them to begin each lesson communicatively from the first moment of study.

All art and realia are more closely linked to either the chapter grammar or the chapter theme.

Revised workbook and laboratory program.

New "Pour vous aider" (To help you) boxes in the margins of each chapter give students helpful information to improve their understanding of grammar and vocabulary items particularly confusing to English speakers at this level. These will help students do the exercises in the section in which they are found.

An Internet feature at the end of each chapter, "Le français au bout des doigts" (French at your fingertips) guides students to the McGraw-Hill website, where they will find questions and exercises about a topic found within the chapter theme. These are accompanied by the WWW links to websites from around the francophone world.

Two of the twelve chapters have new themes.

"Points de repère" (Points of reference) at the beginning of each chapter now includes communicative goals for each chapter as well as the related grammar.

Several grammar points have been moved from one chapter to another to create a clearer learning sequence.

Exercises are more contextualized and fit more closely with the chapter theme.

Chapter vocabulary has been updated to reflect cultural changes in French-speaking countries.

A revised "Discutons" (Let's discuss) vocabulary activity begins with a very focused, concrete question based on the chapter theme and culminates with a related, more abstract question which guides students to think critically in French.