Practice Makes Perfect: Basic French, Premium Second Edition

Practice Makes Perfect: Basic French is the proven companion to your French-learning experience. In each bite-sized lesson, author Eliane Kurbegov explains one—and only one—grammar concept and illustrates it with clear examples. These lessons are purposefully short, so you can complete them in twenty minutes or less, and go at a pace that works for you.

You will, or course, get plenty of practice, practice, practice using your new skills. And this new edition is accompanied by flashcards and audio recordings, available online and via app, that will provide a new dimension and flexibility to your study. Whether you are learning on your own or taking a beginning class, this book will build your confidence in French.

Table of Contents

I 1 Definite articles · Family
2 Indefinite articles · Around the house
3 J’ai and je veux · Animals
4 Il ya · The classroom
5 Subject pronouns · Common -er verbs · Regular -er verbs · Days of the week

II 6 Clothing · -Er verb endings
7 -Ir verbs · Food and beverages
8 -Ir verb endings · Common -ir verbs
9 Adjectives · Colors · Likes and dislikes
10 Descriptive adjectives · More than

III 11 Regular -re verbs · Common -re verbs
12 Asking questions · Interrogatives
13 The verb être · Occupations
14 Possessive adjectives · Using the verb être
15 The verb avoir · Inside the house

IV 16 BAGS adjectives · Locations
17 Moods and emotions
18 Comment ça va? · Health and fitness · Contractions with à
19 Vouloir · More clothes
20 Numbers · Age · Expressions with avoir

V 21 Faire · Weather · Seasons
22 Expressions with faire · Sports · Games · Music · Contractions with de
23 Telling time
24 Aller · Transportation
25 Dire · Écrire · Lire · Things to tell, write, and read

VI 26 Pouvoir · Adverbs
27 Devoir · Two-verb constructions · Adverbs of time
28 Two-verb questions · More food
29 Comparative adverbs and adjectives · Comparisons
30 Prepositions + verb · Il faut · More things in the house

VII 31 Demonstrative adjectives · Common stem-changing -er verbs · Expressions of time
32 Jeter · Appeler · The forms of vieux, beau, nouveau · Friends
33 -Er verbs with e→è stem change · Prepositions: location of things and people
34 -Er verbs with é→è stem change · More prepositions (place, time, and people) · Parts of the day
35 -Er verbs with y→i stem change · Near future: aller + infinitive · Near past: venir de + infinitive

VIII 36 Direct object pronouns · Gifts
37 Savoir · Hobbies · Ne… pas
38 Connaître · The neighborhood · Countries and states
39 Savoir and connaître
40 Using de and à plus noun · Adverbs of negation

IX 41 Irregular -ir verbs: sentir, sortir, partir, dormir · Adverbial phrases
42 Reflexive pronouns · Reflexive verbs · Parts of the body · Feelings
43 Reflexive -er verbs · Toiletries
44 Venir · Se souvenir · The object pronoun en
45 Offrir · Personal object pronouns: me, te, nous, vous, lui, leur

X 46 The family of prendre · Languages · Stress pronouns · Prepositional phrases
47 Near future · Expressions of future time · The pronoun y· Prepositions
48 Near past · Expressions of past time
49 Passé composé with avoir
50 Passé composé with être · Vacation locales