Angela Aries has many years' teaching experience in French and EFL at Colleges of Further Education and Adult Education Institutes, in London and Essex. She has been an examiner for both written and oral French.

Dominique Debney is a former lecturer at Seevic, Essex FE College. She has taught evening classes preparing for the Intermediate Diploma of the Institute of Linguists. She also has many years' experience teaching at secondary level and as an examiner for French GCSE (writing) and A level (oral).

• : Première unité
• : Introductions and personal details. Revision of the present tense; habiter + à + en. Use of depuis + present tense. Agreement of adjectives.
• : Deuxième unité
• : Activities in the past. Invitations and formal letters. Revision of the perfect tense with avoir, regular and common irregular verbs; several verbs with être. Agreement of preceding object. Il y a meaning 'ago'.
• : Troisième unité
• : Giving details of an area. Location of accommodation. Use of qui, que and dont. More adjectives.
• : Quatrième unité
• : Ordering meals, stating preferences and making complaints. Lequel/Laquelle? Celui/Celle?
• : Cinqième unité
• : Supermarket, post office and bank. The perfect tense with être.
• : Sixième unité
• : Describing a holiday. Making enquiries, writing a letter. More on the perfect tense with être.
• : Septième unité
• : Making plans to go out. Personal experiences in the past. Perfect tense of reflexive verbs.
• : Huitième unité
• : Discussing jobs, working hours and conditions of service. Answering ads and making job applications.
• : Neuvième unité
• : Planning the future. Making comparisons. Enquiring about places of interest. The future tense.
• : Dixième unité
• : Weather bulletins. A DIY website. More on the future tense. The present participle.
• : Onzième unité
• : Business phone calls. Conditions of work, safety issues.
• : Douzième unité
• : Describing continuous activities in the past. Means of transport. The imperfect tense. Reported speech.
• : Treizième unité
• : Making comparisons. Stating preferences. The comparative and superlative. Possessive pronouns.
• : Quatorzième unité
• : Reporting accidents and dealing with difficulties. The perfect and imperfect contrasted.
• : Quinzième unité
• : Accommodation problems. Saying what has happened. Pros and cons of forms of transport. More perfect and imperfect tenses. The perfect passive.
• : Seizième unité
• : Saying what you would like to do. The conditional tense and some uses of the subjunctive.
• : Dix-septième unité
• : Cars. Medical problems. The pluperfect and conditional perfect.
• : Dix-huitième unité
• : French history and culture. Writing an extended narrative. The past historic. More use of the passive.
• : Key to Exercises