Authors: Kathie Dior, Kathie Dior (Illustrator), Krista Buuck (Illustrator), Andrew Edmonds (Illustrator), Lydie Guijarro
ISBN-13: 9780971022713, ISBN-10: 0971022712
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Dior Publishing
Date Published: May 2003
Edition: Book & Compact Disc
Les Portes Tordues billed as "The Scariest Way in the World to Learn French!" is an exciting book and audio CD that teaches French by capturing and immersing students into an intriguing mystery. The author, Dr. Kathie Dior, has created this bilingual 46-chapter mystery adventure with line-by-line French-English text while uniquely integrating French vocabulary, grammar, expressions, tests and answers into each chapter. The multi-illustrated book is accompanied by an audio book CD narrated by a native French university instructor. Created for beginning and intermediate students ages 12 and up and adult self-learners, Les Portes Tordues is currently being taught by the author at Purdue University's Gifted Education Resource Institute
Students learning French or Spanish can now delve into their chosen language while being intrigued, and possibly frightened, at the same time...