Lab Cassettes to Accompany Ouvertures: Cours Intermediaire de francais

Ouvertures uses culture as the organizing principle to its communicative approach in the teaching of speaking, reading, listening, and writing.  Ouvertures offers content-based instruction where a cultural theme serves as a unifying element within each chapter.  It promotes a contrastive approach to culutre that encourages (self-)exploration rather than judgments.  And, finally, Ouvertures seeks to provide a manageable amount of material while paying throrough and appropriately distributed attention to all five skills