Transcription Notes
French accents and obvious punctuation errors repaired. We alsobelieve that:
- on page 135 "garcon" in "Quel garcon? Celui qu'il cherchait." should read "garçon".
Conventions:
- ____ indicate the repetition of a word
- ~ indicate the repetition of part of a word
EN PLACE POUR LE QUADRILLE!LE PREMIER LIVRE
BY
ALBERT A. MÉRAS, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of French, Teachers College
Columbia University
AND
B. MÉRAS, A.M.
Director of Stern's School of Languages, New York
Illustrations by KERR EBY
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO
COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY
ALBERT A. MÉRAS AND B. MÉRAS
MÉRAS. LE PREMIER LIVRE
W. P. 16
INTRODUCTORY WORD
This book is an elementary book intended to cover all the work of thefirst half year. It is a grammar and a reader combined.
The aim of the authors is to put in the hands of the beginner, fromthe very first lesson, natural, practical, and interesting French. Thestory about which this book is built is Hector Malot's Sans Famille.On this story the grammar, conversation, and composition are based.
Each lesson, with the exception of the Reading and Review Lessons,contains:
| I. | A study of words. |
| II. | Reading (a chapter of the story). |
| III. | Conversation. |
| IV. | Grammar. |
| V. | Composition (based on the Reading). |
The book is divided into sixty lessons. Under ordinary conditions onelesson may be given as a daily assignment. Since there are, however,an average of ninety recitations in the half-year term, this willallow a division of the more difficult lessons into two parts.
The "Étude de mots" at the beginning of each lesson is not intended tocover all the new words in the lesson. This little vocabulary onlyemphasizes important words and should be used for drills insentence-building.
Each chapter of the story may easily be made the subject of extendedconversation; the five questions are only[6] suggestions. The divisionof the story into short chapters offers excellent opportunities fororal reproduction. It is expected that at the beginning the studentwill find constructions that he w