Ouvertures: Cours Intermediaire De Francais

Ouvertures uses culture as the organizing principle to its communicative approach in the teaching of speaking, reading, listening, and writing. Ouvertures offers content–based instruction where a cultural theme serves as a unifying element within each chapter. It promotes a contrastive approach to culutre that encourages (self–)exploration rather than judgments. And, finally, Ouvertures seeks to provide a manageable amount of material while paying throrough and appropriately distributed attention to all five skills.