Bring Language to Life with the New Award-Winning Roman-Photo Series
The NEW 2024 Silver Telly Award-Winning (in the category Education & Training for Non-Broadcast) Roman-Photo video series breathes new life into Promenades, Fifth Edition.
This vibrant video provides comprehensible input, reinforces vocabulary, and previews structures through contextualized language use. Episodes follow a diverse cast of friends in Paris as they attend university and explore careers in fields such as cuisine, fashion, and education.
Each episode is interactive, featuring integrated quick-checks to monitor understanding, and includes a cultural highlight with an intercultural prompt. The strong progression of activities helps students develop their language skills with confidence.
Explore Real-World Scenarios with Projets
The new Projet strand in each lesson provides students with the opportunity to use the French language creatively through engaging, collaborative, theme-based tasks. These stepped-out web-only projects require critical thinking, group negotiation, and presenting work to the class.
Supported by guiding questions, examples, and an online rubric for streamlined grading, the project work is meaningful and personalized, providing clear evidence of what students can do. Target-language web investigations help students build skills that can be used to solve real-world problems.
Projet fosters lifelong learning by encouraging students to research, create, and reflect, while also offering them a portfolio for documenting their growth.
Unlock Learning with the NEW IPA Assessments
The new Integrated Performance Assessments (IPA) strand is designed to move students toward proficiency through engaging, real-world language practice.
Based on high-interest content from Le Zapping videos, these three-step proficiency-building activities offer an alternative to traditional assessments. While assignable on the Supersite and equipped with clear rubrics to streamline grading, IPAs can also be used flexibly as class activities or stand-alone assignments.
By focusing on interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational communication, IPAs support students in developing the skills they need for authentic, meaningful language use, fostering progress toward real-world mastery.
Interpretive Communication activity
Interpersonal Communication activity
Presentational Communication activity
Elevate the Reading Experience with Audio-Sync
The new web-only audio-sync feature enhances multiple sections of Promenades, providing students with opportunities for inductive learning across the curriculum.
In Contextes (in every A-lesson), audio-sync readings allow students to explore new vocabulary, identify cognates, and infer meaning from context. Within this section, the Mots apparentés presentations focus on cognate vocabulary, previewing key terms through theme-based audio-sync readings to reinforce comprehension.
Additionally, the Lecture culturelle readings now include audio-sync in most units, enabling students to engage more deeply with updated cultural content, intercultural perspectives, and current news.
These features combine to support a communicative approach, building student confidence while enhancing linguistic and cultural competence.
Streamline Studying with New vText Features
The new vText 2.0 offers a streamlined, user-friendly experience with enhanced navigation, including a search menu and integrated icons for accessing presentational audio and video directly from the page. The split-screen view allows students to see page content and activities side-by-side, while improved highlighting and annotation tools make note-taking easier.
With content that adapts to different devices, the vText provides a seamless and enriched learning experience across platforms.
New vtext split screen view
New vtext embedded video
New vtext embedded audio
Interactive Communication Tools Enhance Self-Expression
Promenades, Fifth Edition, offers a wealth of communication tools—Partner Chat, Video Virtual Chat, and the new Group Chat and Student Video Recordings—making teaching and learning more manageable while providing meaningful opportunities for self-expression and interpersonal communication in authentic, real-life contexts.
These tools provide consistent and equitable grading through rubrics while enhancing student proficiency in speaking and collaboration.
Video Virtual Chat activity
Group Chat activity
