En bonne forme

An excellent mix of reading, vocabulary, grammar notes, exercises, and suggested discussions and other oral activities for the classroom. It's well-formatted as well which is unfortunately uncommon in language learning textbooks and goes a long way in making a textbook a pleasure to study.

My only complaint is small, in that the vocabulary lists related to each book excerpt is unnecessarily split into at least three sublists—elementary (broken down into nouns, adjectives, and verbs), active, and supplementary (sometimes futher broken down into subcategories by theme)—so when I was trying to look up a word I had to scan multiple lists instead of just a single alphabetised one.

I also appreciate that the content is international and related to that it still feels current (minus some of the ‘Français en couleurs' slang of course) despite being published in 2007 (8th edition).