DT Divided into 12 units, each covering an important language area DT Photographs and other realia give students insight into French background and lifestyle DT Introduction of colloquial French develops students' abilities to understand and communicate in everyday French DT Material is graded, initially providing revision of structures and topics already covered but in a new and lively way DT Each unit ends with a background reading passage, a series of conversation questions, a survey of the grammar covered in the unit, and lists of topic-based vocabulary