Learn to speak French fast with this practical & entertaining course for beginners. Learn to speak French in three short months with Hugos world-renowned book & CD pack. Practise regularly using the three 70-minute CDs & book & youll learn to understand & speak French faster than you thought possible. Pick up essential grammar & build vocabulary through word lists key French phrases & model sentences. Develop conversation skills through exercises based on real-life scenarios. Learning French has never been so easy! ...

An entertaining & effective introduction to French for children aged 5-10 years old. Featuring the animated characters of Serge a lovable but cheeky monkey & his clever friend Pascale the parrot this fun-filled language pack will really make your children want to learn French. A range of activities on topics such as greetings colours sports animals likes & dislikes & food & drink will get children used to both hearing & speaking French. Course components: DVD Ten 15-minute television programmes each based on a separate topic give children a wide variety of interesting & relevant language. Extra features include subtitles in French & English plus interactive games to help reinforce language skills. Activity Book With its comical characters & absorbing activities this colourful activity book

Includes:: fun & effective language practice through 40 pages of games puzzles & cartoon stories. Audio CD Featuring songs & stories from the DVD this entertaining 80-minute CD also

Includes:: games & pronunciation practice linked to the activity book. Picture Cards 48 fun-to-use cards present key language & vocabulary in a clear & attractive format. The possibilities for games are endless! Song Sheets Sing along to all the catchy songs from the television programmes & CD. Parents' Guide Explains the key language & offers tips on helping your child to get the best out of the pack.



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This revision guide is essential reading for any pupil approaching French Common Entrance at 13+ or scholarship exams. The guide



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Joanne Harriss bestselling novels Chocolat Blackberry Wine & Five-Quarters of the Orange are affectionately known as her culinary trilogy. In them Joanne Harris whets our appetites with some tantalisingly delicious recipes taken from her own grandmeres recipe book. For like Framboise the heroine of Five-Quarters of the Orange Joanne has family recipes which have been passed down through the generations & which she shares with us now in a mouth-watering celebration of French cuisine. From pumkin soup to Moules Mariniere from Tarte aux cassis to Fouace Aveyronnaise (Grandmothers festival loaf) & taking in salads starters fish poultry & plenty more along the way these are simple & stylish recipes from the heart of the French family kitchen. Illustrated with stunning integrated photographs & complemented by anecdotes from her family past & present The French Kitchen will be a must-have cookbook for all lovers of food & France. ...

Thomas Keller chef/proprieter of the French Laundry in the Napa Valley--the most exciting place to eat in the United States " wrote Ruth Reichl in The New York Times--is a wizard a purist a man obsessed with getting it right. & this his first cookbook is every bit as satisfying as a French Laundry meal itself: a series of small impeccable highly refined intensely focused courses. Most dazzling is how simple Kellers methods are: squeegeeing the moisture from the skin on fish so it sautees beautifully; poaching eggs in a deep pot of water for perfect shape; the initial steeping in the shell that makes cooking raw lobster out of the shell a cinch; using vinegar as a flavor enhancer; the repeated washing of bones for stock for the cleanest clearest tastes. From innovative soup techniques to the proper way to cook green vegetables to secrets of great fish cookery to the creation of breathtaking desserts; from beurre monte to foie gras au torchon to a wild & thoroughly unexpected take on coffee & doughnuts The French Laundry Cookbook captures through recipes essays profiles & extraordinary photography one of Americas great restaurants its great chef & the food that makes both unique. One hundred & fifty superlative recipes are exact recipes from the French Laundry kitchen--no shortcuts have been taken no critical steps ignored all have been thoroughly tested in home kitchens. If you cant get to the French Laundry you can now re-create at home the very experience the Wine Spectator described as "as close to dining perfection as it gets."" ...

Three American sisters leave their chicken farm on Long Island for a holiday in Europe. In France they encounter the charming but penniless Marquis de Maufringneuse his writer son Jeff & the marquis tough American ex-wife. When they all find themselves together at the exclusive resort of St. Rocque
- one of the sisters in search of a husband the marquis in search of a fortune the writer in search of love
- Wodehousian complications ensue.

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Of all John Fowles novels The French Lieutenants Woman received the most universal acclaim & today holds a very special place in the canon of post-war English literature. From the god-like stance of the nineteenth-century novelist that he both assumes & gently mocks to the last detail of dress idiom & manners his book is an immaculate recreation of Victorian Engl&. Not only is it the epic love story of two people of insight & imagination seeking escape from the cant & tyranny of their age The French Lieutenants Woman is also a brilliantly sustained allegory of the decline of the twentieth-century passion for freedom ...

This is an epic love story of two people of insight & imagination seeking escape from the cant & tyranny of their age. To the last detail of dress idiom & manners John Fowles immaculately recreates Victorian England in the greatest of his novels which has been the subject of universal acclaim since its first publication. ...

In 19th-century France Gilles de la Trave persuades Colette a young & beautiful peasant girl from one of his estates to become his mistress & live the life of a Parisian courtesan. However it is his son Victor that she loves & expects to marry. In a moment of passion & curiosity she confesses her sins to the local priest unaware that the cure has his own agenda: one which involves himself & Victor. Shocked Colette takes the only sensible option for a young girl from the provinces she flees to Paris to immerse herself in a life of wild indulgence & luxury! ...

Following the success of The French Kitchen" Joanne Harris & Fran Warde have collaborated once more to write a French cookbook with a difference. This time they have taken their inspiration from the rural markets of Gascony. Tomatoes as nature intended them to be
- large misshapen & bursting with taste
- sun-ripened melons locally produced foie gras air-dried goat's cheeses rolled in herbs organic honey persimmons & floc (a uniquely addictive combination of freshly pressed grape juice & aged Armagnac) all form the basis of a deliciously simple collection of recipes that recapture all the sensations & flavours of summertime. Traditional dishes like cassoulet beef bourguignon & creme caramel as well as creative reinterpretations of old favourites
- chilli duck with orange salad & wild mushroom tartlets
- all combine to make " The French Market" a recipe for success."



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