Rapports is a
first-year college French textbook written by Joel Walz and
Jean-Pierre
Piriou, both of the Department of Romance Languages
at the University of Georgia, and
published by Houghton
Mifflin. The purpose of this web site is to connect users of
Rapports to authentic documents from around the
francophone world via the World Wide Web. All cultural references in
the textbook that have corresponding web sites have links on these
pages. Studying Chapter 13 in class? Go to the Table of
Contents, click on Chapter 13, and see what is available!
This web site contains over 300 links to authentic documents arranged in their order of appearance in the fourth edition of Rapports (1997). Sites appear and disappear frequently, so mark this with a bookmark and check back often!
You may search this site by clicking on the chapter you want in the Table of Contents below. The sites are listed in order of their appearance in each chapter in Rapports: a term in italics (Commençons, Enrichissons, Communiquons, Lecture) is a section heading within each chapter. A roman numeral plus a letter refers to a specific activity in the Grammaire section. Any words in blue letters and underlined are "hot links" that you can click on and go directly to the web site. All sites are in French except a few of exceptional interest, which are all marked with "(angl.)".
Table of Contents
Chapitre Préliminaire:
Bonjour!
Chapitre 1: La vie
universitaire
Chapitre 2: La famille et les
amis
Chapitre 3: Au
restaurant
Chapitre 4: Les
voyages
Chapitre 5: Le monde
francophone
Chapitre 6: Les
transports
Chapitre 7: Au
téléphone
Chapitre 8: Paris
Chapitre 9: La cuisine
Chapitre 10: En
voiture
Chapitre 11: La
télé
Chapitre 12: Les
achats
Chapitre 13: La
santé
Chapitre 14: Les
sports
Chapitre 15: Les arts
Chapitre 16: Le
français aux Etats-Unis
Chapitre 17: Le
français au Québec
Chapitre 18: Les
immigrés
Appendices
Certain web sites provide you with links (liens) to a number of other sites of similar interest. Unlike this site, which follows the content of Rapports, 4th edition, most launch sites are organized by subject matter (art, music, etc.).
If you want to search a theme yourself, use a search engine. Google is the most thorough, and it allows the user to limit a search to sites in a specific language. If you want to conduct your search in French, use Yahoo! France or the French search engine Voilà.
This is a public, non-commercial, educational Web site. It is intended for the use of all those who are interested in the cultures of the French-speaking world.
Requests for information about the textbook that forms the organizing principle for this site must be addressed to the publisher, Houghton Mifflin.
Copyright 2003 Joel C. Walz
This site was created by Joel Walz (JWALZ@UGA.EDU)