Components

Student Edition:

• six high-interest themes per level
• numerous documents-ressources reflect contemporary Francophone culture
• a wide variety of communicative and experiential project activities
• individual, pair, large and small-group work
• develops and integrates all language skills
• highly visual, full-colour

Workbook:

• supports and compliments Student Edition activities
• features additional documents-ressources and project activities
• includes individual, pair, and group activities to review, reinforce, and evaluate language elements
• presents process writing activities relevant to the unit theme

Teacher's Guide:

• three-ring binder format includes a comprehensive introduction, individual unit modules, a complete cahier d'activities Answer Key, and Blackline Masters
• each unit module begins with two or three final project options, followed by unit reference charts and suggested daily planning grids
• each unit module contains extensive teaching strategies, notes, background notes culturelles, vocabulaire utile, optional activities, tapescripts, and Answer Keys
• BLMs consist of fiches de projet (Passages 1-3) and fiches d'activitiés (Passages 1-2)

Teacher's Resource Package:

• a comprehensive package of reproducible masters to support the program
• review, reinforcement, and remediation
• summative and formative evaluation
• modeling, recording, and evaluating student activities
• includes fiches de révision, fiches de renforcement, fiches de progrès, fiches d'évaluation and fiches d'activitiés
  (Passages 3)
• cassettes accompany the listening component of the fiches de renforcement and the fiches d'évaluation

Cassettes or Compact Discs:

• support and complement the Student Edition and Workbook
• include dramatizations, conversational contexts and oral documents
• organized by units and sections: savoir comprendre, la langue active, la bonne oreille, fiches de renforcement and fiches d'évaluation, rather then by component, for easier access
• feature a variety of voices and sound effects
• a complete listing and timings of all recorded items is included on a back-cover insert

Acetates:

• full-colour overhead transparencies
• authentic cultural documents, maps, photos, and other visual materials
• facilitate and enhance presentations, activities and unit projects

Cahier d'activités et de pratique (Passages 3):

• identical in content to the existing workbook
• an additional 32-page section contains writing exercises that provide opportunities for practice, consolidation, and reinforcement of writing skills
• new exercises range in degree of difficulty

Flashcards (Passages 1 & 2):

• provide visual support for development of thematic vocabulary
• 64 black and white picture cards on card-stock, packaged in clamshell for easy storage

Je me présente! (Passages 1) :

• An introductory unit written to facilitate the transition between Visages 3 and Passages 1
• Composition of the Student Edition parallels that of
  Passages 1

Je me présente! Teacher's Package (Passages 1) :

• contains project activities, Blackline Masters and a complete lesson planning guide