Title: Not appropriate for Middle School Students
Product review: Our middle school uses this book, together with the textbook and the videotapes, as its curriculum for teaching French. While the storyline of the two main characters is cute, its subject matter (often involving one man trying to pick up a girl) is more appropriate to older students, not those between the ages of 11 and 13. Because every lesson pulls things out of the dialogue for study, my daughter's class has less of an understanding of French than they might have with a more methodical approach. Concepts are taught seemingly at random,and since very few practice exercises are given, and the instructions are all in French, comprehension is low. This might be a good way to study French for older students or adults, (particularly those who expect to be going to France in the near future) but beware of using it as a method to teach French to anyone younger - it isn't effective.
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