CHEZ NOUS
LEVEL: ADVANCED LEVEL 4 / AS, A-LEVEL CEF: B1-B2
DATE: NOV/DEC 2011

Pages 2 &3 News
Things seen
Online extra: Do you read newspapers? Do you trust them?
Online extra: Are billboards a 砺isual pollution・
Online poll: Undocumented migrants should be deported: yes or no?
Online poll: Tunnel through the Alps ・a good idea?

Pages 4-6 Reportage
A week without CO2
How to limit one痴 CO2 emissions during a working week ・and likewise at the weekend.
Language focus: Pollution
Culture: Environmental portrait of France
CD: Ecological footprint ・what is it?

Page 7 Video
History
Six teenagers have been interviewed in a video about History and the way it is taught.
Language focus: History
Culture: French Teenagers and their education system
Online activities: Comprehension

Pages 8 & 9 Investigation
From baby-sitting to stick-ups
16-year-old Mathilde is your ordinary teenager, that is until she started committing bank stickups.
Language focus: Justice / Crime
Culture: Young girl offenders in France
Online activities: Comprehension
Online extra: What do you think of Mathilde痴 story?
CD: Sociology of young girl offenders

Page 10 & 11 Culture
Becoming an icon in Hollywood ・
Mission Impossible?
L饌 Seydoux does indeed play in Mission Impossible 4. Yet can French actresses make it big in Hollywood?
Language focus: Cinema
Culture: France痴 cultural soft-power
Online extra: What do you think of Hollywood cinema?
CD: How to succeed in Hollywood? Practical advice

Page 12 & 13 Dabate
Tobacco and alcohol: no, thank you!
Damia, Rayane, Na・ and In鑚 live in Morocco.
Do they smoke cigarettes? Do they (binge) drink? Interviews.
Language focus: Health
Culture: French people overseas
Online activities: Comprehension
Online extra: Are tobacco and alcohol harmful?
CD: Audio version of the interviews

Page 14 & 15 Brain-teasers
Activities and exercises
Revise the conditional tense, adverbs of frequency, verbs with ・or de, and synonyms ・thanks to activities.
Language focus: Tenses / Complex sentences / Grammar

Page 16 Portrait
Kenza Drider
Fiercely opposed to the ban on wearing the full veil, Kenza Drider has become the media痴 focus of attention.
Language focus: Integration
Culture: Secularism in France
CD: Audio version of the interview