Le Pendentif: Easy French Stories with English Glossaries **Past tense** (Easy French Reader Series for Beginners) (French Edition) - Softcover

Lainé, Sylvie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2370610166 ISBN 13: 9782370610164

Publisher: Sylvie Lainé, 2015

Synopsis

An archeologist discovers a strange pendant on the beach. He starts looking for its owner ...This collection of short stories is perfect for beginners. You'll be able to practice the use of past tenses (passé composé and imparfait. Past historic is used only in literature).They offer a real plot and allow the reader to read without a dictionary: French-English glossaries under each paragraph introduce you to the words and phrases you might not know.A large french-english dictionnary at the end of the book containing 1,500+ French words and expressions allow you to easily find any word from the story again, with its gender and its exact english translation.From beginner to intermediate level (A2-B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference).

About this title

About the Author:

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Sylvie Lainé is a native French language trainer, writer and translator. She is a graduate of the University of Caen (France) in Applied Language Studies and Linguistics and a graduate of the University Erlangen-Nurnberg (Germany) in Romance Philology. Over 15 years experience of providing language training to adults allow her to understand their difficulties and challenges. In february 2013 she created the "Easy French Reader Series for Beginners".

She wants to create carefully written and exciting stories to help her students escape grammar and exercise books. She wants her students to enjoy reading and learn the language without the feeling of overwhelm and frustration that they get from many French books. As she found nothing especially written for beginners on the Internet, she came up with the idea of writing stories herself. 

She was born in Normandy and lives now in the south of France.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sylvie Lainé
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 2370610166
• ISBN 13: 9782370610164
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 62