At the end of each unit, the Focus examen feature breaks down each section of


the exam and the end-of-unit Évaluation provides an exam-focused reading and writing assessment. À l’Attaque ! 2nd Edition is not only a textbook. The new Cahier d’Oral is structured


to help students prepare for the oral exam, organise themselves and revise throughout Fifth and Sixth Year. Each topic starts with helpful phrases and sentence structures and then provides space for students to prepare and revise answers to common oral exam questions. The Cahier d’Oral also offers useful oral exam tips and practical strategies to help students improve their pronunciation. Students can find Quizlet quizzes at https://quizlet.com/GillEd1/folders/a-lattaque- for-senior-cycle-french to test themselves on all of the vocabulary in each chapter.


Extra teacher resources to complement the book are also available on gillexplore.ie, including: • a full scheme of work • solutions for all of the aural, reading and grammar exercises in the textbook • additional grammar exercises for each chapter • sample answers to past exam questions • topic-based vocabulary lists • grammar tables • all of the audio content in the book.


I hope teachers and students alike will enjoy using À l’Attaque ! – I certainly loved writing it! Bon courage à tous ! Dominique Sénard


Punctuation


French punctuation is a little different from English punctuation. • Spaces are used before colons, question marks and exclamation marks, e.g.: Regardez-vous les informations ?


• French quotation marks look like this « » in printed text. With dialogue, they are sometimes left out altogether and replaced with a long dash at the beginning of the speech, e.g.: —Tu crois que c’est possible ? —Je ne sais pas.


• In numbers, spaces are used instead of commas, and commas (virgules) instead of decimal points, e.g.: 12,300,321 = 12 300 321 987.65 = 987,65

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