To The Instructor

Welcome to Fifth Edition of Deux mondes! We are excited about our new edition, which continues to provide opportunities for communicative language development. Informed by research on second language teaching and learning, this edition responds to the useful feedback provided by many loyal users. We hope you are as excited as we are about the Fifth Edition.

Keeping Pace with the Profession:

From Proficiency to the National Standards

Build on the foundation of four highly successful editions, the Fifth Edition of Deux mondes offers a truly communicative approach that supports functional proficiency in all language skills. We believe that competent speakers must have an appropriate background knowledge of the communicative and cultural contexts in which language occurs. Deux mondes considers cultural competence to be an integral part of language learning and integrates it as part of developing communicative competence by providing natural contexts and by offering many perspectives on Francophone culture through readings and authentic materials.

Moreover, Deux mondes supports the National Standards, as outlined in Standards for Foreign Language Learning: Preparing for the 21^st Century (1996; National Standards in Foreign Language Education Project, a collaboration of the ACTFL, AATG, AATF, and AATSP). As presented in the Standards, the five "Cs" of Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities describe what students should know and be able to do as a result of their language study. Deux mondes provides a solid foundation of their implementations.

Communication: Deux mondes emphasizes communication in the target language in meaningful and personalized contexts. Throughout the program, students listen to and read comprehensible French and have ample opportunities to use French in guided and free conversation, interviews, information gap activities, role-plays, writing, and other kinds of activities that are theme-based, not grammar-driven.

Cultures: The new cultural feature, Escales francophones, which appears after Chapters 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 integrates new cultural video footage shot in five Francophone cities throughout the world. Moreover, new readings on these pages develop such themes as French and Francophone geography, history, society, and art. The Info and Les francophones sur le vif sections also present various perspectives on the cultures of the French-speaking world. Dans le monde francophone offers communicative activities based on authentic materials. Throughout the book, students listen to, read, and respond to interviews with native speakers.

Connections: Chapter themes and activities encourage and enable students to link their study of French with their personal lives and other subjects they are studying.

Comparisons: Recurring features such as La langue en mouvement, Info, Les francophones sur le vif, and Espace vidéo, and the activities in Dans le monde francophone, lead students to make comparisons, between their world and that of French-speaking people.

Communities: The open-ended Cliquez là! and the Deux mondes website activities encourage students to use the Internet to make direct contact with the French-speaking world at home and abroad. The Activités in the student text and in the Instructor's Resource Kit (IRK) encourage students to work with classmates in situations requiring interpersonal and group dynamics.

Changes That Make a Difference

Throughout the review process, we received valuable input from instructors and students alike. As a result, we have made a number of changes tin the Fifth Edition without altering the basic concept and approach of Deux mondes.

• Many Activités and readings have been updated to reflect changes in the cultures of the French-speaking world.
• Chapter 8, Parlons de la Terre!, has been revised to reflect the strong interest in environmental issues among Francophone people in Europe and, indeed, people throughout the world.
• Based on useful feedback from reviewers, the readings have been extensively revised to highlight social and cultural changes throughout the French and Francophone world. New readings in Chapters 7, 8, 9, and 11 also provide a contemporary perspective and add a cultural context for language learning.
• A new cultural feature, Escales francophones, appears after Chapters 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12. This feature integrates new cultural video footage shot throughout the Francophone world—Paris, France; Quebec City, Canada; Dakar, Senegal; Brussels, Belgium; and Fort-de-France, Martinique. With narration appropriate to students' comprehension level, these segments take students through "a day in the life" of each city. Within the textbook, new readings provide more information on each of these French-speaking areas, introducing students to social, historical, geographical, and cultural topics of interest.
• A new text-specific Online Learning Center available at www.mhhe.com/deuxmondes5 offers a variety of resources for both instructors and students. The website includes daily French news feeds, self correcting grammar, as well as task-based web activities related to the themes introduced in each chapter.
• A new Online Workbook/Laboratory Manual, developed in collaboration with Quia ™, includes a grade reporting feature, an online audio program, and interactive activities.

Program Components

As a full-service publisher of quality education products, McGraw-Hill does much more than just sell textbooks to your students; we create and publish an extensive array of print, video, and digital supplements to support instruction on your campus. Orders of new (versus used) textbooks help us to defray the cost of developing such supplements, which is substantial. Please consult your local McGraw-Hill representative to learn about the availability of the supplements that accompany Deux mondes: A Communicative Approach.

The instructional package of Deux mondes, Fifth Edition, includes the following materials, designed to complement your instruction and to enhance your students' learning experience. Please contact your local McGraw-Hill sales representative for information on availability and costs of these materials.

Available to Adopters and to Students:

• Student Edition. Full-color textbook with activities, grammar explanations and exercises, and helpful appendices.
• Listening Comprehension Program. This audio program contains selections of readings from the Info boxes, Les francophones sur le vif, and Lectures sections. It is available on the Deux mondes Website (www.mhhe.com/deuxmondes5) and as a separate audio CD packaged with the audio program.
• Cahier d'exercices. This combined workbook/laboratory manual contains both acquisition activities and learning exercises for use outside the classroom.
• NewQuia Online Workbook/Laboratory Manual. Developed in collaboration with Quia, the Quia Online Workbook/Laboratory Manual is the enhanced, interactive version of the printed product that includes instant feedback, the complete audio program, automatic grading and scoring, and a grade report feature that can be viewed online or printed.
• Audio Program. Available on audio CD, this program contains pronunciation practice and listening comprehension texts, recorded dialogues, narratives, and the Rencontres serial program starting in Chapter 1. The audio program offers a complete introduction to basic phonetics and pronunciation, with accompanying practice exercises and dictées. Included with the Audio Program is a separate audio CD, which contains the listening comprehension selections from the textbook.
• Extensively revisedStudent CD-ROM. A CD-ROM containing the vocabulary displays with pronunciation items, grammar and vocabulary practice, new cultural video clips, a talking dictionary, and more.
• New Deux mondes Website. An Online Learning Center with self-correcting grammar quizzes, task-based Internet research activities and learning resources for students.
• Premium Content on the Deux mondes Website. If you have purchased a new copy of Deux mondes, you have access free of charge to premium content on the Online Learning Center Website at www.mhhe.com/deuxmondes5. This includes the complete audio program that supports the accompanying Workbook/Laboratory Manual. The card bound inside the front cover of this book provides a registration code to access the premium content. This code is unique to each individual user. Other study resources may be added to the premium content during the life of the edition of the book. If you have purchased a used copy of Deux mondes but would like to also have access to the premium content, you may purchase a registration code for a nominal fee. Please visit the Online Learning Center Website for more information. If you are an instructor, you do not need a special registration code for premium content; instructors have full access to all levels of content via the Instructor's Edition link on the homepage of the Online Learning Center Website. Please contact your local McGraw-Hill sales representative for your password to the Instructor's Edition.
• C'est la vie! A French Reader. This new reader is a collection of four original short stories that brings the Francophone world to life through the experiences of students and young professionals in France, Guadeloupe, Belgium, and Canada. The stories are written specifically for high-beginner and intermediate learners of French. In each story, the characters are portrayed in authentic, everyday situations and cultural setting that will pique student interest and offer a glimpse of daily life in various French-speaking countries. These engaging stories provide a format to encourage students to read for pleasure and suggestions for professors offer pedagogical tools that facilitate use of this reader in class.

Available to Adopters Only

• Annotated Instructor's Edition. Themain text contains marginal notes with suggestions for using and expanding every Activité in the text. It also offers additional cultural information, teaching hints for using all readings, photos, and realia, and tips on teaching selected grammar points in the Natural Approach classroom.
• Instructor's Manual. This guide offers more detailed teaching suggestions and theoretical background on the Natural Approach, including a fully illustrated guided tour of the Première étape and Chapitre 1 that provides detailed comments on the function and organization of the materials. The Instructor's Manual includes the Videoscripts to accompany the functional language video segments and the new cultural footage.
• Instructor's Resource Kit. This kit provides supplementary activities, photocopy masters, games, and other resources that correspond to the themes in the student text.
• Testing Program with Audio CD. This volume offers a variety of test components emphasizing listening, speaking, reading writing, vocabulary and grammar, allowing instructors to create tests according to the needs of their class. Listening comprehension passages are recorded on the accompanying audio CD.
• Electronic Testing Program. Available in a dual-platform format, this program contains the tests found in the printed Testing Program but provides the flexibility of electronically modifying or adapting the tests to suit the needs of your students.
• Audioscript. A transcript of all the material recorded in the Audio Program.
• Video Program. Filmed on location in various French and Francophone regions, this video contains functional language situations in video clips tied to the themes of each chapter in the text, as well as new cultural video footage that presents "a day in the life" of five cities in the French-speaking world: Paris, France; Quebec City, Canada; Dakar, Senegal; Brussels, Belgium; and Fort-de-France, Martinique.
• Overhead Transparencies. A set of 50 acetates for presentation of vocabulary, review, and class activities.