Chapter 1: Les salutations et les présentations
* Summary: This chapter introduces basic greetings, introductions, and expressions for politeness. Students learn to greet people, introduce themselves and others, and use polite phrases like "s'il vous plaît" and "merci."
Real example: "Bonjour, je m'appelle Marie. Comment allez-vous?" (Hello, my name is Marie. How are you?)
Chapter 2: Les nombres
* Summary: This chapter covers numbers from 1 to 100, ordinal numbers, and how to tell the time. Students practice counting, writing numbers, and using them in sentences.
Real example: "Il est dix heures du matin." (It is ten o'clock in the morning.)
Chapter 3: Les pronoms personnels
* Summary: This chapter introduces personal pronouns (I, you, he, she, etc.) and their use in sentences. Students learn to identify the subject and object of a sentence and to use pronouns correctly.
Real example: "Je suis un étudiant. Elle est une étudiante." (I am a student. She is a student.)
Chapter 4: Le présent de l'indicatif
* Summary: This chapter teaches the present tense of regular and irregular verbs. Students learn to conjugate verbs in the present tense and to use them in sentences.
Real example: "Je parle français. Tu parles anglais." (I speak French. You speak English.)
Chapter 5: Les articles définis et indéfinis
* Summary: This chapter covers definite and indefinite articles (the, a, an) and their use in sentences. Students learn to distinguish between definite and indefinite articles and to use them correctly according to the noun they are referring to.
Real example: "Le chat est noir. Une voiture est bleue." (The cat is black. A car is blue.)
Chapter 6: Les adjectifs possessifs
* Summary: This chapter introduces possessive adjectives (my, your, his, her, etc.) and their use in sentences. Students learn to identify the possessor of a noun and to use the correct possessive adjective.
Real example: "Mon livre est sur la table. Sa voiture est dans le garage." (My book is on the table. His car is in the garage.)
Chapter 7: Les adverbes
* Summary: This chapter covers adverbs (quickly, slowly, well, etc.) and their use in sentences. Students learn to identify adverbs and to use them to modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs.
Real example: "Il parle rapidement. Elle mange lentement." (He speaks quickly. She eats slowly.)
Chapter 8: Les prépositions
* Summary: This chapter introduces prepositions (of, to, at, in, etc.) and their use in sentences. Students learn to identify prepositions and to use them correctly to indicate location, direction, or time.
Real example: "Le livre est sur la table. Je vais à l'école." (The book is on the table. I am going to school.)
Chapter 9: Les conjonctions de coordination
* Summary: This chapter covers coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, nor) and their use in sentences. Students learn to identify coordinating conjunctions and to use them correctly to connect ideas or clauses.
Real example: "J'aime le français et l'anglais. Il est beau mais il est pauvre." (I like French and English. He is handsome but he is poor.)
Chapter 10: Les conjonctions de subordination
* Summary: This chapter introduces subordinating conjunctions (because, since, if, although, etc.) and their use in sentences. Students learn to identify subordinating conjunctions and to use them correctly to connect clauses and express relationships between them.
Real example: "Je ne comprends pas parce que tu parles trop vite. Si tu m'attends, je te rattraperai." (I don't understand because you are speaking too quickly. If you wait for me, I will catch up with you.)
