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Allez, Viens!: Level I
by John Demodo
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Holt Rinehart & Winston (2000-05)
ISBN: 0030520797
EAN: 9780030520792
Dewy Decimal #: 400
Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
SKU: E1216
Condition: Good
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Customer Reviews
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Absolutely the worse French textbook EVER!
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-01-01
I am a French teacher. This book is horrible! Where do I begin?
This book focuses too much on culture and SLANG! They don't even teach appropriate French until after they have formed bad language habits in the students! The morsels of grammar that they haphazardly throw in are laughable at best only because of the absurdity in the way they present the material. Once they have presented it, the opportunity to practice what they've learned is pretty useless. Their translations of words are also horrible. Either they are completely wrong (VOILA does not mean HERE; it means THERE. VOICI means HERE.) or their explanations are super weak.
As a fellow French teacher friend of mine told me, this book is designed for French teachers who do not want to teach French.
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Worst Book Ever
Rating (1)
Date: 2006-04-04
8 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
I am a French teacher and I can say that this is the worst book ever designed for learning French. After the first four chapters, all that students still really know how to say is "j'aime" and "je n'aime pas". It tries to be communicative and teach students catch-phrases so that they can speak in detail, but the problem is that all they know how to say are those phrases. They don't understand how the language works. The grammar explanations in this book are laughable. It doesn't provide nearly enough practice. Plus, it introduces things in the exercises that they've never ever had before! Why throw 'le futur proche' into a grammar exercise when the student has never been exposed to it and can not guess the meaning from context because it is simply a grammar exercise? I just don't understand this book!
They try to be culturally appropriate by making references to French teenagers, but let's face it -- our teenagers don't care what sports French teenagers play.
The coup de grâce is that être, arguably the most important verb in the language, isn't introduced until Chapter 7! All year long my students ask me "When are we going to learn family members and how to describe people?" and they cannot believe that it is until chapter 7.
The layout of this book makes no sense. Two chapters focus on food, and two chapters focus on sports and past-times? Why not combine these into the same chapters? It makes no sense to introduce demonstrative adjectives before the verb être. Using this book makes me despise teaching lower-level French.
What I wouldn't give for even 10 minutes with the writers and publishers of this book to ask them "What the heck were you thinking?!"
Next year, our school system is switching to Discovering French, Nouveau! If you want a real textbook that your students would enjoy, I recommend you check that one out.
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THE BEST BOOK EVER
Rating  (5)
Date: 2005-01-30
0 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
ALLEZ VIENS HOLT LEVEL 1 FRENCH BOOK TAUGHT ME ALOT AND IT IS BETTER THAN THE FRENCH BOOKS AT SCHOOL!
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Great for learning a new language!
Rating (5)
Date: 2003-01-15
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
I first used this book when I started taking French 1 in Middle School. It is a great book! It takes every aspect of learning French, peice by piece. There are 12 chapters, each wich zeros in on one topic. They have things such as Comment dit-on... (how do you say), Vocabulaire (vocabulary), and Grammaire (Grammer). I would recomend this textbook to anyone who wants to learn French!
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