A new edition of the bestselling package for First Year Junior Cycle French to reflect assessment, teacher feedback and updates to the Specification for Junior Cycle Modern Foreign Languages.
Now featuring:
- Additional listening, reading and writing exercises matched to the 2022–2025 final examination papers
- Sentence builders in every chapter to scaffold vocabulary and support spoken and written production
- Compétences de vie tasks that reflect real-life scenarios across the personal, public and educational domains in line with the action-oriented approach
Textbook features:
- Ten engaging thematic chapters
- Suited to mixed-ability classes and the common-level course
- Integrated exercises to develop reception, interaction, production and mediation skills and strategies in context
- Clear and accessible grammar sections
- Des mots clés boxes to build communicative competence
- Retenez ! feature to foster language awareness
- Le dossier francophone and Culture features for socio-cultural knowledge and intercultural awareness
- Auto-évaluation checks after key topics
- Le texte authentique feature to provide real-world context
- Résumé exercises at the end of each chapter
- Évaluation en classe tasks at the end of every chapter, modelled on Classroom-Based Assessments 1 (Examples from my Student Language Portfolio) and 2 (Oral Communication Task)
Chef d’oeuvre is a place for students to:
- develop oral communication and written skills for Classroom-Based Assessments and the final examination
- reflect on and evaluate their progress ahead of the Assessment Task
- learn about how Junior Cycle French is assessed.
Trousse de grammaire:
- An extensive write-in bank of exercises to support grammar covered in each chapter
Lexique
Supports language awareness with:
- relevant nouns, adjectives and verbs in alphabetical order
- space to add new words
- verb tables
App
- Audio for all listening exercises
- Spoken by native French speakers
- Available on- and offline across major operating systems












