Customer Reviews

Good for the younger beginners, great stickers - By: , 11 Dec 2002
I bought this sticker book to use as teaching materialin private tuition (I'm a native French speaker) & find it a useful starting point.

This book contains 14 colourful scenes from which are extracted about 6 to 8 words with corresponding stickers to be located on insert pages. Each sticker shows a picture of the object or person labelledin French with the English equivallentin smaller type. At the end of the book there is also a compilation of 30 words to be matched with their pictures & a full glossary with (approximate) pronunciation guide.

The scenes are busy enough to provide lots of scope for talking or reviewing & introducing more vocabulary.

The stickers can be stuckin the bookin the spaces provided, but they are suitable for making your own little flascards or lotto game, etc...

The vocabulary isin the register of everyday words, such as clothes, parts of the body, bath time, bed time, meals, toys, colours, etc. so it is easy to make the children use themin real situations.

The style of illustration & the large type are aimed at young children, which should make it suitable for initiating kids from pre-reading age. Older than about 10, other books from the same publisher, Usborne Book of Everyday Wordsin French or First 1000 Wordsin French would perhaps be a more appealing choice.

In my copy (2002 edition) the labels on page 7 about breakfast (le bain, le ventre, le canard) should be swoped with those on page 26 about the bathroom (instead of la pomme, l'orange, la banane). This sloppiness costs it a starin my rating.