Title: French Transparent Language 01 (French Now!)
Copyright: 1995
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Type: Guided Reading
Primary Skill: Reading
Secondary Skill: Listening
Description: A series of authentic, interactive texts designed to improve French reading and listening comprehension skills. Translates words or phrases into English?? and provides cultural notes.? CD #1 includes the following titles: "A Trip to Paris", "Journal francais excerpts", and "Contes et légendes".

Title: French Transparent Language 02
Copyright: 1995
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Type: Guided Reading
Primary Skill: Reading
Secondary Skill: Listening
Description: A series of authentic, interactive texts designed to improve French reading and listening comprehension skills. Translates words or phrases into English?? and provides cultural notes.? CD#2 includes "Introduction to French."

Title: French Transparent Language 03
Copyright: 1995
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Type: Guided Reading
Primary Skill: Reading
Secondary Skill: Listening
Description: A series of authentic, interactive texts designed to improve French reading comprehension skills. Translates words or phrases into English?? and provides cultural notes.? CD#3 includes "Le Bretagne - Journal francais regions"

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Title: Learn to Speak French?
Copyright: 1996
Level: Beginning - Intermediate
Type: Tutorial
Primary Skill: Comprehensive Course
Description: A beginning French program that includes 30 context based chapters and utilizes audio and video of native speakers to foster comprehension and understanding of authentic French.? Also provides instruction and practice in building vocabulary, reading skills, pronunciation and phonetic aspects of French.? Students can record their own voices and compare their pronunciation to that of the native model voice.

Title: Who is Oscar Lake?
Copyright: 1996
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Type: Simulation
Primary Skill: Listening
Secondary Skill: Reading
Description: A role playing game in which the student is introduced to basic French while trying to unravel a mysterious diamond heist. Includes audio and video of native speakers, and challenges student's detective skills.

Title: Mais Oui
Copyright: 1996
Level: Beginning
Type: Drill & Practice
Primary Skill: Grammar
Secondary Skill: Vocabulary
Description: A basic multimedia program accompanying Mais Oui text, designed to introduce students to topics, dialogs, and vocabulary they are likely to encounter in textbook.

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Title: Mais Oui (CD-ROM)
Copyright: 1996
Level: Beginning
Type: Tutorial
Primary Skill: Listening
Secondary Skill: Grammar
Description: Provides an interactive, video-based learning tool that incorporates the chapter themes found in Mais Oui textbook.? Travels to different parts of France and conducts unrehearsed live interviews with people.? Includes dictionary and glossary of cultural terms..

Title: French Proofing Tools
Copyright: 1996
Level: Beginning - Advanced
Type: Information Resource
Primary Skill: Translation
Description: Provides a dictionary and glossary of terms and does spell check for Microsoft Word documents written in French.? Works with Microsoft Word program.

Title: French Verb Tutor
Copyright: 1994
Level: Beginning
Type: Tutorial
Primary Skill: Listening
Secondary Skill: Grammar
Description: Provides instruction in conjugating verbs including tenses, vocabulary and pronunciation practice.

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Title: Dictionnaire Hachette?
Copyright: 1996
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Type: Information Resource
Primary Skill: Reading
Secondary Skill: Translation
Description: Provides French dictionary and encyclopedia with real audio and video options.? This program is in essence an extensive cultural encyclopedia with multiple topics: history, literature, art, politics, sports, animals, science, culture and language, with a dictionary option.

Title: French Reading Lab: 3 by Maupassant
Copyright: 1993
Level: Advanced
Type: Guided Reading
Description: A series of authentic, interactive texts designed to improve French reading comprehension skills.? Provides dictionary of words and phrases, cultural notes.?

Title: Let's Visit France
Copyright: 1994
Level: Beginning - Advanced
Type: Information Resource: Culture and History
Primary Skill: Listening
Secondary Skill: Reading
Description: Provides English/French option and describes through voice, text and graphics history, regions, cities, people and cultural norms throughout France.? Has dictionary, questions and three reading comprehension sections for the student.

Title: World History: the French Revolution
Copyright: 1995
Level: Beginning - Advanced
Type: Information Resource: Culture and History
Primary Skill: Listening
Secondary Skill: Reading
Description: Describes through voice, text and color graphics the French Revolution, with biographies and timelines of major players and events.? Has dictionary and glossary of cultural and historical terms and short quizzes on what you have heard and read.
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