Upgrade Your French

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Upgrade Your French is the ideal guide for students looking to improve their written French rapidly.

Upgrade Your French is the ideal guide for students looking to improve their written French rapidly.

It offers a complete revision programme to improve your skills, focusing on three key strategies for improving your written French:

• Eliminating common errors
• Increasing and consolidating vocabulary

• Using a wider range of expression and sentence structure

This third edition includes enhanced coverage of the subjunctive and a new section on prepositions, new revision exercises at the end of each grammar and vocabulary unit (including translation sentences), and a companion website with further practice exercises for each chapter.

This is the ideal book for all intermediate students looking for a simple way to improve their French fast.

Autorentext

Margaret Jubb is Emeritus Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Aberdeen, UK.

Klappentext

Upgrade Your French is the ideal guide for students looking to improve their written French rapidly. It offers a complete revision programme to improve your skills, focusing on three key strategies for improving your written French: Eliminating common errors Increasing and consolidating vocabulary Using a wider range of expression and sentence structure This third edition includes enhanced coverage of the subjunctive and a new section on prepositions, new revision exercises at the end of each grammar and vocabulary unit (including translation sentences), and a companion website with further practice exercises for each chapter. This is the ideal book for all intermediate students looking for a simple way to improve their French fast.

Inhalt

Day 1: Agreement of verb and subject

Day 2: Reporting speech

Day 3: The present tense

Day 4: Statistics and numbers

Day 5: Adjective agreements

Day 6: Comparatives and superlatives

Day 7: Alternatives to adverbs

Day 8: Use of articles

Day 9: Quantifiers

Day 10: Use of tenses with si

Day 11: False friends and Anglicized spelling

Day 12: Past tenses

Day 13: Expressions of time

Day 14: Agreement of past participles

Day 15: Pronominal verbs

Day 16: The passive

Day 17: Alternatives to the passive

Day 18: Personal pronouns

Day 19: The negative

Day 20: Inversion of subject and verb

Day 21: Relative pronouns

Day 22: The infinitive and present participle

Day 23: Logical connectors

Day 24: Modal verbs

Day 25: Sentence openings

Day 26: Prepositions

Day 27: Conjunctions

Day 28: Highlighting and emphasis

Day 29: Verb constructions

Day 30: Accents, elision and capitalization

Progress Chart

Answers to Exercises

Bibliography

Index