Encore Intermediate French, Student Edition: Niveau intermediaire

Flexible integration of the film in the text The film Encore is integrated into various features of the textbook. Each chapter opener includes a film teaser, Un aperçu sur le film, to give students a glimpse into the film segment they will watch in the lesson. A two-page spread toward the end of each chapter contains pre-viewing, viewing, and post-viewing activities to help students comprehend and appreciate the segment of the film (each segment is approximately five to eight minutes long) that they are watching. Scenes from the film are used as springboards for the presentation of grammar and provide the context for selected vocabulary and grammar activities. Additionally, in the Synthèse section toward the end of each chapter, students have the opportunity to engage in a task that is based on the film.

Research-based, communicative, input-to-output approach: Encore is informed by current research in instructed second language acquisition. Using an input-to-output approach, students are first given the chance to work with listening and reading so that they have the opportunity to connect new vocabulary and grammar to meaning before being asked to speak or write. The activities progress from focused to more open-ended and task-based. Moreover, since Encore is paired with an engaging movie, students will have an abundance of exposure to comprehensible input and the chance to engage in meaningful and purposeful interaction about characters and plot.

Chapter openers: Each chapter opener introduces students to the general theme of the chapter with a "Premières impressions" question to activate relevant background knowledge or initial thinking. A list of the chapter's learning objectives follows. Finally, "Un aperçu sur le film," a film teaser activity, prepares students to view/review a segment of the film ENCORE.

Réflexion culturelle: This feature opens the vocabulary lessons in Partie 1 and Partie 2 of each chapter. It encourages students to reflect on the cultural topic of that lesson while also providing cultural information or insight related to France, Québec, and other Francophone countries or communities.