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My school district just adopted these texts. As a secondary major in Language Acquisition, these books do not front load the vocabulary, they give little or not enough examples, they do not always use videos that are age appropriate or interest level, appear to start with an assumption that students already know some basic French and activities that are somewhat random/jump about and introduce vocabulary that is way beyond a first year student's level! This would be good at a higher level such as; first year college, but not age appropriate or interest level for High Schoolers.
Jarod H-M Your comments are on the money, especially the one about being suited for beginning level college class. The publishers first textbook was a college level text for beginning level French. The D'accord series is basically an slightly modified copy of that original series. I was very sad when I got a review copy of D'accord for that very reason. ...See More
Sep 24, 2015
Kim Uyyek Are you able to use the Supersite? I found that that helps a lot with vocabulary learning.

I used this text book in my high school class and I stressed at the beginning of the year that they were developed for university use. In fact, one student came back to visit after high school graduation and told me that her university used D’acco...See More
Sep 24, 2015
Mary On 9/24/15, Kim Uyyek wrote: > Are you able to use the Supersite? I found that that helps a > lot with vocabulary learning. > > I used this text book in my high school class and I stressed > at the beginning of the year that they were developed for > university use. In fact, one student came back to visit after > high school gr...See More
Oct 30, 2015
Margot On 9/23/15, Deb wrote: > My school district just adopted these texts. As a > secondary major in Language Acquisition, these books do > not front load the vocabulary, they give little or not enough > examples, they do not always use videos that are age > appropriate or interest level, appear to start with an > assumption that stude...See More
Feb 13, 2016


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