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\ REVISED FRENCH COURSE FOR SCHOOLS
PART II
Bn Avant
HERBERT F COLLINS
MACMILLAN
A REVISED FRENCH COURSE
FOR SCHOOLS
Part II
EN AVANT
By the same author
A FRENCH COURSE FOR SCHOOLS
Parts I, II and III. Key to Part III
LES BEAUX JOURS
A French Reader for Junior Forms
LE CHARMANT PAYS DE FRANCE
CONTEURS FRANÇAIS DE CHARLES
NODIER À HENRY BORDEAUX
A Collection of French Stories
LA FRANCE AU TRAVAIL
A FRENCH MANUAL FOR THE
EXAMINATION FORM
A REVISED FRENCH COURSE
FOR SCHOOLS
Part I, POINT DE DÉPART
FOR SCHOOLS — PART II
EN AVANT
HERBERT F. COLLINS
M.A., DOC. DE L’üNIV. (STRASBOURG)
Sometime Headmaster of the Chichester
High School for Boys ; late Head of the
Modem Side, Manchester Grammar School
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© 1964
Copyright Herbert P. Collins
Revised Edition 1964
Reprinted 1967, 1970, 1973, 1974 (twice), 1975, 1976,1977 »1978
Published by S G Wasani for The Macmillan Company of India Ltd and
Printed at Macmillan India Press, Madras 600 002
Preface to the Revised Edition
In bringing up to date the Second Part of A French Course
for Schools, I have given particular attention to a number of
matters, which I hope will make this revised edition as
acceptable to teachers and their pupils as was the original
version.
The reading material has been closely scrutinised and
three completely new sections, offering more modern inci
dents, have replaced a fairy tale and two passages dealing
with Robinson Crusoe ; textual changes have been made else
where in the interests of clarity and simplicity. As before,
the outline of grammatical structure is closely related to the
text and remains the bedrock on which this course is based.
In response to many requests, the number of exercises
has been increased to give variety and a wide range of written
tasks, graded to the needs of differing abilities. This seemed
to me an essential ingredient now that French is being taught
in ever-increasing numbers in all forms of secondary schools,
with the possibility that primary schools may follow suit.
Every effort has been made throughout to maintain a thread
of revision.
It cannot be emphasised too strongly that for any pupil
the most profitable written exercise in a foreign language is
composition. When revising the First Part, I took care to
encourage the beginner to write simple sentences of his own
design whose vocabulary he had already explored, and in this
early stage there was no insistence on a particular sequence.
In this Second Part, he is confronted with writing what
native French teachers regard as an essential preliminary to
the more closely integrated exercise of Rédaction, le Para
graphe. It is this progress from the composition of sentences
to the more connected simple paragraph that I have been at
some pains to facilitate.
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For the more able students provision has also been made
for the narration of incidents supplied by pictures. Dictation
too, an invaluable exercise, whether viewed as a preliminary
to composition work or as a check upon grammatical and
phonetic accuracy, has been included in every section. Sound
drill, previously limited to isolated vowels and consonants,
has been upgraded to include practice in the breath group
and intonation. .
My warm thanks are due to the French and British
revisers of my manuscript, to many teachers and friends for
much valuable suggestion and to my publishers, Messrs.
Macmillan and Co., Ltd., for all they have done to make
both Point de Départ and En Avant such attractive examples
of book production.
HERBERT F. COLLINS
London, 1964
Contents
PAGE
Preface to the Revised Edition V
X 1
i. La Jeune Fille la Grande Bouche
Jîie Imperfect Tense. Comparison of Adjectives
if La Jeune Fille X la Grande Bouche (suite) 7
The Imperfect Tense ( )
continued
Comparison of Adjectives (
continued)
X
3. La Jeune Fille la Grande Bouche (suite et fin) 13
The Verbs
recevoir, apercevoir, concevoir, devoir
Numerals
4. Sur la Route Nationale 7 21
, ‘ The Emphatic Pronouns
27
5. Que feriez-vous ?
The Future in the Past or the Conditional Tense
Listes de Mots 1-5 33
Le Collectionneur de Timbres-poste 35
The Demonstrative Pronouns
The Present Participle
7. Le Collectionneur de Timbres-poste (suite) 42
Irregular Verbs of the Second Conjugation like
dormir
8. Le, Collectionneur de Timbres-poste (suite et fin) 48
The Irregular Verb Negative forms
savoir.
Revision of the Plural of Nouns and Adjectives
9. La Fille des Géants 56
The Past Historic Tense
Revision of the Relative Pronoun
10. L’Homme qui épousa une Femme muette 63
The Past Historic Tense (
continued)
Listes de Mots 6-10 69
11. L’Homme qui épousa une Femme muette (suite) 71
The Formation of Adverbs
The Comparison of Adverbs
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12. L’Homme qui épousa une Femme muette (suite et fin) 78
The Irregular Verbs venir and tenir
Adjectives with double Masculine Forms
*3- Ma Tante Mathilde - 8S
Use of venir de
The Irregular Verbs connaître and paraître
The Difference between connaître and savoir
H- Ma Tante Mathilde (suite et fin) 91
The Possessive Pronouns ' (
The Irregular Verbs mettre and prendre
I5- Les Tribulations de Monsieur Noé 99
The Irregular Verbs craindre, joindre,, peindre
Impersonal Verbs .
Listes de Mots 11-15 I05 u.
*6. Les Tribulations de Monsieur Noé (suite et fin) 107
Agreement of the Past Participle
*7- La Vente de Charité "3
Agreement of the Past Participle (continued)
Irregular Verbs of the Second Conjugation like ouviir
Use of si meaning whether
i8. Le Cheval arabe • 120
The Passive Voice. The Irregular Verb courir ’
*9- La Statuette 127
The Relative Pronouns. Use of lequel
The Irregular Verbs construire, naître
20. Le Rêve *35
Revision of Plural of Nouns and Adjectives
Revision of Feminine of Adjectives. The Verb mourir
Listes de Mots 16-20 141
La Composition par Images *43
Phonetic Exercises . JS3
*57
Résumé of Grammar covered in Part I
Poèmes 166
Verbs 172
Irregular Verbs 176
Vocabulary, French-English 181
„ English-French 195
Appendix 201
i. La Jeune Fille à la Grande
Bouche
Il y avait une fois à Paris une jeune fille qui était très
jolie mais malheureusement elle avait la bouche énorme.
Lorsqu’elle passait dans la rue, tout le monde la regardait
d’un œil curieux et les méchants petits garçons se moquaient
de la pauvre demoiselle.
Sa bouche était en vérité d’une grandeur extraordinaire.
Elle s’étendait d’une oreille jusqu’à l’autre. Lorsque la
jeune fille parlait, on avait l’impression que sa tête allait se
fendre en deux parties.
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