Deux mondesis widely regarded as the most communicative text available for beginning French courses. Based on the Natural Approach developed by Tracy Terrell and Stephen Krashen, this text offers beginning language students a way to develop language proficiency (especially in listening and speaking) that allows them to participate in real conversations at a very early stage. The Natural Approach in general, andDeux mondes, Fifth Edition in particular, present material inductively (so that the activities drive the grammar), students quickly become excited about their rapid growth in comprehension and vocabulary acquisition and enjoy speaking in the non-threatening environment made possible by the activity formats.

Note: The preliminary chapters and Chapter 1 of this Table of Contents provide a comprehensive listing of contents for those chapters, as representative of the other chapters. The outlines of Chapters 2-14 provide only the vocabulary topics and grammatical structures.

Premire tape Premires rencontres

Activits

La communication en classe

Qui est-ce? Les camarades de classe

Comment sont-ils? La description des personnes

Les vtements et les couleurs

Rencontres

Grammaire et exercices

A.1 Giving Instructions: Commands with vous

A.2 Identifying people: C'est..., Je m'appelle...

A.3. Gender and articles

A.4 Describing people: tre; subject pronouns, and ne... pas

A.5 Plural nouns and articles

A.6 Addressing others: Tu and vous

Deuxime tape Le monde tudiant

Activits

Qu'est-ce qu'il y a dans la salle de classe?

La date et l'alphabet

Les nombres de 40 100 et l'heure

Les cours

La description des autres

Grammaire et exercices

B.1 Expressing existence: Il y a

B.2 Asking questions

B.3 Spelling in French: The French alphabet

B.4 Telling time: Quelle heure est-il?

B.5 Expressing possession: The verb avoir

B.6 Describing with adjectives: More on gender agreement

B.7 Irregular plurals

Chapitre 1 Ma famille et moi

Activits et lectures

La famille

Gots personnels

Info / Socit: Portrait de famille

Origines et renseignements personnels

La vie de famille

Info / Socit: Qui sont les Franais?

Les francophones sur le vif: Marie-Claire Schmitt

Lecture: Familles d'aujourd'hui

Grammaire et exercices

1.1 Expressing relationships: Possessive adjectives

1.2 Expressing likes and dislikes: Aimer + infinitive

1.3 Talking about dates and personal data: Numbers beyond 100

1.4 Stating origin: The verb venir

1.5 Talking about actions: Present of -er verbs

1.6 Expressing relationships and possession: Contractions of de

Chapitre 2 La vie quotidienne et les loisirs

Le temps, les saisons et les loisirs

Les activits quotidiennes

Les habitudes et les projets

Aptitudes et rves

2.1 Talking about activities and weather: The verb faire

2.2 Talking about everyday activities: Reflexive verbs

2.3 Going places and future actions: The verb aller, contractions of

2.4 Making general statements: The impersonal subject on

2.5 Abilities and desires: The verbs pouvoir, vouloir, and savoir

Chapitre 3 En ville

Sorienter en ville

La ville et les transports

Les achats

Les distractions

3.1 Saying where things are: Prepositions of location

3.2 Asking questions: Interrogative words

3.3 Verbs like prendre

3.4 Expressing necessity: Il faut and the verb devoir

3.5 Pointing things out: Demonstrative adjectives

3.6 Expressing quantities: Partitive articles

3.7 The verbs sortir and dormir

3.8 The verb courir

Chapitre 4 La maison et le quartier

Les pices et les meubles

Le logement

Les tches et les loisirs

La vie de quartier

4.1 Describing: Placement of adjectives

4.2 Making comparisons

4.3 Regular -ir verbs

4.4 Regular -re verbs, mettre

4.5 Direct object pronouns

4.6 Talking about knowing: The verb connatre

4.7 Describing states of being: Idioms with avoir

Escales francophones: La France

Chapitre 5 Dans le pass

La vie quotidienne

Les expriences

Le week-end et les loisirs

Faits personnels et historiques

5.1 Saying what you did: Pass compos with avoir

5.2 Irregular past participles

5.3 Saying what you did : Pass compos with tre

5.4 Pass compos of reflexive verbs

5.5 Negative expressions

Chapitre 6 L'enfance et la jeunesse

Les activits de lenfance

La jeunesse

Les rapports avec les autres

Souvenirs et vnements du pass

6.1 The verbs dire, lire, crire

6.2 Saying what you used to do: The imperfect

6.3 Describing past states: More on the imperfect

6.4 Linking ideas: Relative pronouns

6.5 Indirect object pronouns

6.6 Idiomatic reflexive verbs

6.7 The verbs voir and croire

6.8 Different perspectives on the past: Summary of pass compos and imperfect

Escales francophones: Le Qubec

Chapitre 7 table!

Les aliments et les boissons

On fait les provisions

Lart de la cuisine

Au restaurant

7.1 Review of articles

7.2 The verb boire

7.2 Expressing quantities: The pronoun en

7.3 More on asking questions: Qui, que, and quoi

7.4 Ongoing actions: Etre en train de

7.5 Ordering events: Avant, aprs

Chapitre 8 Parlons de la Terre

En France et ailleurs

Questions cologiques

cologie humaine

8.1 Expressing all and everything: Using tout

8.2 Expressing location, destination, and origin: Prepositions + place names

8.3 The verb vivre

8.4 Review of direct and indirect objects: More on object pronouns

8.5 Expressing should: More on devoir

8.6 What was going on: More on the imperfect

Escales francophones: Le Sngal

Chapitre 9 L'enseignement, les carrires et l'avenir

Lenseignement et la formation professionnelle

Le travail et les mtiers

Lavenir

9.1 Other uses of y : J'y pense

9.2 Emphatic pronouns

9.3 Identifying and describing: C'est vs. il/elle est

9.4 Saying what you've been doing: Present tense + depuis

9.5 Saying what you will do: The future tense

Chapitre 10 Les voyages

Voyages ltranger

En voiture!

Comment se dbrouiller

Les achats, les produits et les matires

10.1 Expressing obligation: Il faut que + subjunctive

10.2 More about the subjunctive: Irregular-stem verbs

10.3 Verbs for travelling: The verbs conduire and suivre

10.4 Double object pronouns

10.5 The superlative: Expressing extremes

10.6 Making distinctions: Lequel and celui

Escales francophones: La Belgique

Chapitre 11 Les moyens de communication

Lunivers de llectronique

On se distrait, on sinforme

Les piges de linforoute

11.1 Saying what you would do: The conditional

11.2 The relative pronoun dont

11.3 More on relative pronouns: Ce qui, ce que, ce dont

11.4 Giving orders: Commands with pronouns

11.5 Talking about hypothetical situations: More on the imparfait

Chapitre 12 La sant et les urgences

La sant

Les maladies et les traitements

Les accidents et les urgences

12.1 Saying what you want others to do: More on the subjunctive

12.2 Changes of state: Pass compos vs. imperfect

12.3 The present participle

12.4 Expressing events in the recent past: Venir de + infinitive

12.5 Narrating in the past tense: Pass compos vs. imperfect

Escales francophones: Les Antilles

Chapitre 13 La famille et les valeurs en socit

Lamour, lamiti et la famille

La vie de famille

Valeurs et dcisions

13.1 Reciprocal actions: More on reflexive pronouns

13.2 Describing actions: Adverbs

13.3 Expressing feelings: More on the subjunctive

13.4 A past in the past: The plus-que-parfait

13.5 More on expressing possession: Possessive pronouns

Chapitre 14 Les enjeux du prsent et de l'avenir

Lintgration sociale

Lhritage du pass

Les enjeux du XXIe sicle

14.1 Should have: The past conditional of devoir

14.2 Saying what you would have done: The past conditional

14.3 Conjunctions: More on the subjunctive

14.4 Expressing doubt and uncertainty: More on the subjunctive

Appendix A: Verbs ending in -er with spelling changes

Appendix B: Verb + verb constructions

Appendix C: Conjugations of regular and irregular verbs

Appendix D: Answers to grammar exercises

Lexique: Vocabulaire franais-anglais

Index