Sunday, May 8, 2011

Voilà Book Review

It is my professional opinion that this textbook ruins my weekend every week and makes my blood boil. I hate it. I hate it with a passion that exceeds that I have for Eat Pray Love. How can one possibly conceive teaching all the faire expressions, ce, cette, ces, jouer à/de, avoir envie de (but not any other fucking avoir expressions), faire du/de, de l', then à pied, and the god damn fucking passé composé, but only for the verbs recontrer and gagner (as if those are the two most important verbs to know in the passé composé!!) and some faux amis ALL ON THE SAME THREE PAGES???

Let me just clue those of you who aren't French teachers in: YOU CAN'T!! You can't teach all that on the same three pages. None of that shit even goes together. This might be tolerable for one chapter, but in the last chapter is was l'âge, la place des adverbes, combien de, de, de+definite article and chez/habiter à which is why I need to take a deep breath. Figure out some key concepts and then ditch this book before I punch someone in the face.

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