Brigitte Edelston is a native speaker of French and Robin Adamson a native speaker of English. They have enjoyed teaching French together for many years, at all levels and for many purposes.

Introduction 1 Greetings and introductions 2 Likes and dislikes 3 Describing people and habitual actions 4 Making requests 5 Saying what you prefer 6 Saying what you are going to do 7 Saying who owns what 8 Permission and obligation 9 Directions, instructions and advice 10 Describing a sequence of events 11 Future plans and events 12 Orders and instructions 13 Talking about past events 14 Habitual actions in the past 15 Going back in the past 16 Wishes, probability and possibility 17 How you feel about something 18 Imagining what could happen Transcriptions - In context Key Verb tables Index