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*lÿ. \ REVISED FRENCH COURSE FOR SCHOOLS PART II Bn Avant HERBERT F COLLINS MACMILLAN A REVISED FRENCH COURSE FOR SCHOOLS Part II EN AVANT By the same author A FRENCH COURSE FOR SCHOOLS Parts I, II and III. Key to Part III LES BEAUX JOURS A French Reader for Junior Forms LE CHARMANT PAYS DE FRANCE CONTEURS FRANÇAIS DE CHARLES NODIER À HENRY BORDEAUX A Collection of French Stories LA FRANCE AU TRAVAIL A FRENCH MANUAL FOR THE EXAMINATION FORM A REVISED FRENCH COURSE FOR SCHOOLS Part I, POINT DE DÉPART FOR SCHOOLS — PART II EN AVANT HERBERT F. COLLINS M.A., DOC. DE L’üNIV. (STRASBOURG) Sometime Headmaster of the Chichester High School for Boys ; late Head of the Modem Side, Manchester Grammar School ILLUSTRATED BY DAVID KNIGHT THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF INDIA LIMITED Delhi Bombay Calcutta Madras Associate companies throughout the world © 1964 Copyright Herbert P. Collins Revised Edition 1964 Reprinted 1967, 1970, 1973, 1974 (twice), 1975, 1976,1977 »1978 Published by S G Wasani for The Macmillan Company of India Ltd and Printed at Macmillan India Press, Madras 600 002 Preface to the Revised Edition In bringing up to date the Second Part of A French Course for Schools, I have given particular attention to a number of matters, which I hope will make this revised edition as acceptable to teachers and their pupils as was the original version. The reading material has been closely scrutinised and three completely new sections, offering more modern inci dents, have replaced a fairy tale and two passages dealing with Robinson Crusoe ; textual changes have been made else where in the interests of clarity and simplicity. As before, the outline of grammatical structure is closely related to the text and remains the bedrock on which this course is based. In response to many requests, the number of exercises has been increased to give variety and a wide range of written tasks, graded to the needs of differing abilities. This seemed to me an essential ingredient now that French is being taught in ever-increasing numbers in all forms of secondary schools, with the possibility that primary schools may follow suit. Every effort has been made throughout to maintain a thread of revision. It cannot be emphasised too strongly that for any pupil the most profitable written exercise in a foreign language is composition. When revising the First Part, I took care to encourage the beginner to write simple sentences of his own design whose vocabulary he had already explored, and in this early stage there was no insistence on a particular sequence. In this Second Part, he is confronted with writing what native French teachers regard as an essential preliminary to the more closely integrated exercise of Rédaction, le Para graphe. It is this progress from the composition of sentences to the more connected simple paragraph that I have been at some pains to facilitate. v vi French Course — Part II For the more able students provision has also been made for the narration of incidents supplied by pictures. Dictation too, an invaluable exercise, whether viewed as a preliminary to composition work or as a check upon grammatical and phonetic accuracy, has been included in every section. Sound drill, previously limited to isolated vowels and consonants, has been upgraded to include practice in the breath group and intonation. . My warm thanks are due to the French and British revisers of my manuscript, to many teachers and friends for much valuable suggestion and to my publishers, Messrs. Macmillan and Co., Ltd., for all they have done to make both Point de Départ and En Avant such attractive examples of book production. HERBERT F. COLLINS London, 1964 Contents PAGE Preface to the Revised Edition V X 1 i. La Jeune Fille la Grande Bouche Jîie Imperfect Tense. Comparison of Adjectives if La Jeune Fille X la Grande Bouche (suite) 7 The Imperfect Tense ( ) continued Comparison of Adjectives ( continued) X 3. La Jeune Fille la Grande Bouche (suite et fin) 13 The Verbs recevoir, apercevoir, concevoir, devoir Numerals 4. Sur la Route Nationale 7 21 , ‘ The Emphatic Pronouns 27 5. Que feriez-vous ? The Future in the Past or the Conditional Tense Listes de Mots 1-5 33 Le Collectionneur de Timbres-poste 35 The Demonstrative Pronouns The Present Participle 7. Le Collectionneur de Timbres-poste (suite) 42 Irregular Verbs of the Second Conjugation like dormir 8. Le, Collectionneur de Timbres-poste (suite et fin) 48 The Irregular Verb Negative forms savoir. Revision of the Plural of Nouns and Adjectives 9. La Fille des Géants 56 The Past Historic Tense Revision of the Relative Pronoun 10. L’Homme qui épousa une Femme muette 63 The Past Historic Tense ( continued) Listes de Mots 6-10 69 11. L’Homme qui épousa une Femme muette (suite) 71 The Formation of Adverbs The Comparison of Adverbs vii viii French Course — Part // PACE 12. L’Homme qui épousa une Femme muette (suite et fin) 78 The Irregular Verbs venir and tenir Adjectives with double Masculine Forms *3- Ma Tante Mathilde - 8S Use of venir de The Irregular Verbs connaître and paraître The Difference between connaître and savoir H- Ma Tante Mathilde (suite et fin) 91 The Possessive Pronouns ' ( The Irregular Verbs mettre and prendre I5- Les Tribulations de Monsieur Noé 99 The Irregular Verbs craindre, joindre,, peindre Impersonal Verbs . Listes de Mots 11-15 I05 u. *6. Les Tribulations de Monsieur Noé (suite et fin) 107 Agreement of the Past Participle *7- La Vente de Charité "3 Agreement of the Past Participle (continued) Irregular Verbs of the Second Conjugation like ouviir Use of si meaning whether i8. Le Cheval arabe • 120 The Passive Voice. The Irregular Verb courir ’ *9- La Statuette 127 The Relative Pronouns. Use of lequel The Irregular Verbs construire, naître 20. Le Rêve *35 Revision of Plural of Nouns and Adjectives Revision of Feminine of Adjectives. The Verb mourir Listes de Mots 16-20 141 La Composition par Images *43 Phonetic Exercises . JS3 *57 Résumé of Grammar covered in Part I Poèmes 166 Verbs 172 Irregular Verbs 176 Vocabulary, French-English 181 „ English-French 195 Appendix 201 i. La Jeune Fille à la Grande Bouche Il y avait une fois à Paris une jeune fille qui était très jolie mais malheureusement elle avait la bouche énorme. Lorsqu’elle passait dans la rue, tout le monde la regardait d’un œil curieux et les méchants petits garçons se moquaient de la pauvre demoiselle. Sa bouche était en vérité d’une grandeur extraordinaire. Elle s’étendait d’une oreille jusqu’à l’autre. Lorsque la jeune fille parlait, on avait l’impression que sa tête allait se fendre en deux parties. i