Collins CSEC® French provides comprehensive coverage of the CSEC® French syllabus. With a clear structure and engaging content, the Student's Book has been carefully planned around topic-based units so that language and skills are taught in context. The course takes a skills-based communicative approach with equal coverage given to all four skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. Content is relevant to the age group and so provides engaging and motivating learning opportunities in real-world contexts. All topics, grammar and vocabulary are mapped to the syllabus, with clear learning objectives highlighted for each section of each unit. Units follow a carefully-planned, consistent structure allowing for reinforcement and progression at every stage. The course caters for all levels of ability, including the needs of students with less experience of French or those who need more support. It also provides extension activities for those students who require an extra challenge, and aims to encourage all students to develop their higher-order thinking skills. The layout of the book is clear and accessible, with boxed features highlighting key points of grammar, vocabulary or suggestions for taking things further. The opportunity to review is key and there are various Check-up and Review sections which encourage students to reflect on their progress. Each unit also contains a useful vocabulary section for ease of reference. To encourage students to broaden their perspectives, there are 'Français en action' sections in every unit which offer stimulating, thought-provoking and enjoyable insights into the culture and society of Francophone countries. Opportunity for practice, consolidation and revision is provided throughout the course, with exam-style questions included to help students develop their skills for success. Audio files are available as a free download from the Collins website for listening comprehension exercises and pronunciation practice. To access the answer key for this textbook, contact Tom.Cane@harpercollins.co.uk

CSEC® French Student's Book

Teen & Young Adult

Pike, Robert

Glover, Stuart

Capjon, Séverine

Moores, Amandine

Education & Reference

Collins

Our bestselling AQA A Level French course has been updated for the 2016 specification. This course offers brand new content, to equip students with the grammar and structures required to manipulate the language confidently and to prepare them thoroughly for their exam. The blend facilitates co-teaching and includes AS and A Level Student Books and online resources delivered via popular Kerboodle.

AQA A Level French

Reference

Shannon, Paul

Povey, Colin

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Oxford University Press

Our bestselling AQA A Level French course has been updated for the 2016 specification. This course offers brand new content, to equip students with the grammar and structures required to manipulate the language confidently and to prepare them thoroughly for their exam. The blend facilitates co-teaching and includes AS and A Level Student Books and online resources delivered via popular Kerboodle. Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level: A Level Subject: French First teaching: September 2015 First exams: June 2017 The audio to accompany this book is available to purchase on CD. It is also available to institutions via Kerboodle.

AQA French A Level Year 1 and AS Student Book

Our bestselling AQA A Level French course has been updated for the 2016 specification. This course offers new content, to equip students with the grammar and structures required to manipulate language confidently and to prepare thoroughly for their exam. The blend facilitates co-teaching and includes AS and A Level Student Books and online resources delivered via popular Kerboodle.

AQA A Level Year 1 and AS French Audio CD Pack

English as a Second Language

July 1940 saw the collaborationist Vichy regime replace the French Republic after the country suffered heavily at the hands of the German onslaught during World War II. A small number of people sought to make a stand in whatever way they could, despite fear and mortal danger. From railway workers and couriers to guerrilla fighters and foreign agents, each played their part in destabilizing Marshal Pétain’s poisonous regime. This book casts new light on the Resistance, using unique first-person accounts and newly translated archival records to highlight how ordinary people refused, protested, fought, and ultimately became heroes of the Resistance.

Defying Vichy: Blood, Fear and French Resistance

History

Europe

The History Press

On June 10, 1944, four days after Allied forces landed in Normandy, the picturesque village of Oradour-sur-Glane in the rural heart of France was destroyed by an armored SS Panzer division. Six hundred and forty-three men, women, and children were murdered in the nation’s worst wartime atrocity. Today, Oradour is remembered as a "martyred village" and its ruins preserved, but the stories of its inhabitants lay buried under the rubble of the intervening decades.\nSilent Village is the first account of Oradour before and after the tragedy, told through the eyes of those who lived there. Its community, politicians, customs, and culture during the years of occupation are brought vividly to life in this unique insight into the everyday lives, loves, and rivalries of a typical village in Vichy France. 
Why this peaceful community was chosen for extermination has remained a mystery. Drawing on new interviews with survivors and a re-examination of archival material, historian Robert Pike relates the tragedy as it happened and the anguish of those left behind. While disproving contemporary hearsay, Nazi rhetoric, and subsequent theories, he presents a clear if uncomfortable answer to the question: why Oradour?

Silent Village: Life and Death in Occupied France

'Based on eye-witness accounts, Robert Pike’s moving book vividly depicts the lives of the villagers who were caught up in the tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane and brings their experiences to our attention for the first time' Hanna Diamond, author of Fleeing Hitler 
On June 10, 1944, four days after Allied forces landed in Normandy, the picturesque village of Oradour-sur-Glane in the rural heart of France was destroyed by an armored SS Panzer division.\nSix hundred and forty-three men, women and children were murdered in the nation’s worst wartime atrocity. Today, Oradour is remembered as a ‘martyred village’ and its ruins preserved, but the stories of its inhabitants lie buried under the rubble of the intervening decades. Silent Village gathers the powerful testimonies of survivors in the first account of Oradour as it was both before the tragedy and in its aftermath. Why this peaceful community was chosen for extermination has remained a mystery.\nPutting aside contemporary hearsay, Nazi rhetoric and revisionist theories, Robert Pike returns to the archival evidence to narrate the tragedy as it truly happened – and give voice to the anguish of those left behind.

Champions at checkers, according to Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle, learn everything needed to become great detectives. Become a winner! Learn to find alternative solutions to problems, break down complex situations, and keep control of your long-term strategy. Here's everything you need to know to leave your opponent gasping in surprise. Dozens of strategies take you, move by move, through many entire games. Start with the basic moves that put you on the winning track. See how to protect your pieces, get kings and use them well, and block your opponent. Fight for control of the center of the board, set up multiple jumps, and avoid the "dog hole." You even learn to play computer checkers, with move-by-move replays of great recent man-versus-machine contests, plus Internet sites where you can pit yourself against "Chinook," the world computer checkers champion. BIG BONUS: The back cover is a specially designed fold-out game board. Open it up, put down the pieces, and practice all the techniques and strategies as you go through the book. 128 pages, 78 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

Play Winning Checkers (Mensa®)

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Sterling

Hone your skills and analytic powers with 101 brilliant checker strategies and come out ahead every time. Divided into beginning, middle, and endgame tactics, each puzzle showcases a different board layout, with a description of what's happening. Put yourself in the player's place to work out what each game-clinching move could be. There's a tip on every page, solutions, American Checker Federation rules, a glossary, and a special fold-out checker board!

101 Checker Puzzles MENSA

Children's Books

Activities, Crafts & Games

Universally popular, the "mind sport" of checkers is one of the world's oldest board games, and one of the most elegantly structured. Although children can readily understand its most basic rules, on a higher level checkers can demand great depth of strategic thought. Put your skill to the test with these puzzles--all based on the standard American game. (Federation rules appear in their entirety.) Each is winningly solvable in no more than six and a half moves, and often less by the player who goes first. In numerous problems, the winner even seems at a serious disadvantage at the start. Quite a few of the solutions list alternative patterns of play that depend on the moves chosen by the player destined to lose.

The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Checker Puzzles

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Books by Pike, Robert

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CSEC® French Student's Book

AQA A Level French

AQA French A Level Year 1 and AS Student Book

AQA A Level Year 1 and AS French Audio CD Pack

Defying Vichy: Blood, Fear and French Resistance

Silent Village: Life and Death in Occupied France

Silent Village: Life and Death in Occupied France

Play Winning Checkers (Mensa®)

101 Checker Puzzles MENSA

The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Checker Puzzles