Face-à-face, 3rd Edition

Conversation sans frontières

Face-à-Face is an advanced French program with a focus on communication via discussion of authentic content. This program serves as the basis for meaningful communication via speaking and writing with abundant opportunities for process reading, viewing, and listening. It offers appealing content (films, readings, comic strips, writing assignments, and discussions) meant to pique students’ interest, capture their imagination, and provoke a genuine desire to speak.

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What sets Face-à-face, 3rd Edition apart?

Face-à-face offers a magazine-like format that integrates a variety of media and activities designed to engage advanced French students in meaningful conversations. The six theme-related lessons of Face-à-face foster engaging, thought-provoking discussions, and analytical writings from advanced-level French students.

NEW to this edition:
  • New Group Chats with rubrics offer multiple students to work as a group (2-6 students) and record a video production exercise

  • Group Chats, Partner Chats, and Compositions now have rubrics for an easy and equitable grading experience

  • New assignable IPAs with customizable rubrics focus on the three modes of communication: interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational

  • Interactive Grammar Tutorials offer students the opportunity to review grammar at their own pace

  • Student Individual Video Recordings now allow students to summit individual work via video recording

  • News and Cultural Updates added to engage learners and foster intercultural understanding


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Digital at your fingertips

Experience the Face-à-face Supersite, an unparalleled digital learning environment with integrated content, resources, and tools built exclusively to support language learning.

  • Everything you need to plan, teach, and assess

  • Program-specific, theme-based practice activities with auto-grading and immediate feedback

  • Plenty of authentic and cultural media

  • Robust assessment program with ability to customize or create your own

  • News and Cultural Updates to keep students informed about current events in the Spanish-speaking world

Product details

  • Author
    Françoise Ghillebaert
  • Lessons
    6
  • Published
    ©2026

For students

  • Student Edition textbook (paperback or loose-leaf)
  • Supersite Plus with vText—the online, interactive student edition
  • WebSAM online student workbook

For instructors

  • Instructor Annotated Edition textbook
  • Instructor Supersite with testing program, assignment calendar, and additional instructor resources
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