![]() ![]() I like less the almost total lack of cultural content and the single-minded use of one method, sound though it is.Īnother time I'll take a look at Le Français par l'Image - a sort of Cours Illustré "lite" for less brilliant pupils.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 04:08:20 Associated-names Dodd, Bill (Bill J.), 1950- Autocrop_version 0.0.13_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA40565808 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier I still like the use of the family as a source of stories and humour and to provide a thread of continuity. The method is pretty sound, though you would adapt the exercises to use greater pair work (easy enough) and you would supplement it with some of the resources we have got used to, for example interactive computer exercises. No monkey this time, but we do get a family: the Marsaud parents and their children Jean-Claude, Pierre and Claudette (no people from non-white ethinic groups - I guess it didn't occur to anyone really).īooks like this were written for bright children at grammar schools, independent schools and the upper sets of early comprehensives. Selection and grading of material are rigorous, especially with the Gilbert book. So once again, we have a book in the British tradition of an oral approach within situations, a kind of adjusted direct method, influenced in the Longman case by behaviourist learning theory, rooted within a strongly grammatical framework where the long-term aim is to produce pupils with internalised grammatical knowledge who can use the language creatively and accurately. We also see an early version of the grammar frame, those boxes where you pick and choose words to make sentences I was never a big fan of those, and we see them less now. ![]() Opportunities for song also feature throughout the Stage 1 book. We are also treated to some black and white photographs here and there which give a subtle foretaste of the greater use of authentic cultural material which will feature in later courses. In addition each written sentence is punctuated with numbers which correspond to the accompanying questions and provide gaps for the repetition from the tape which the tets are designed for. There is more dialogue here than pure narrative text, so more pair work may be encouraged. Pictures accompanied by short texts or dialogues which can be used for repetition, drilling and various types of question and answer. But the methodology is fundamentally the same. ![]() The layout is arguably more attractive, the pages larger. We now have three colours (green, black and white) rather than mere black and white. Antrobus, published in 1973, just seven years later, has a great deal in common with Gilbert's course. Flexibility means, for example, the ability to switch from one person of the verb to another." Ah! a mere decoration but provide further foundation for the language work at this early stage." He talks of "fluency" and "flexibility": "In oral work it is advisable to persist with the practice of a particular pattern until the pupils can use it fluently and flexibly. In his preface Mark Gilbert says: "The pictures are not. ![]() I have previously mentioned the former, published in 1966, with its use of pictures to exemplify grammar and vocabulary. I'm sitting here with my copies of Cours Illustré de Français Book 1 and Longman's Audio-Visual French Stage A1. ![]()
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