Ça alors ! 1 is set in Angers, where we get to know some of the students at the Collège St-Martin. Each unité of the Textbook begins with a quirky cartoon story, the themes, language and cultural points of which are reinforced in the photo story at the end of the unité.

To help build the new learner's confidence there is lots of speaking, listening, reading and writing practice, and new language is regularly revised throughout the course.