A perfect introduction to French study, Mini Vol can be used both in starter classes for beginners and also as an additional multi-media resource for any year level. Mini Vol 1 and Mini Vol 2 are one-colour workbooks with 48 pages of activities created specifi cally to promote cultural awareness and useful language. They can each be used to cover beginner level French study and are affordable for use in brief taster courses. Mini Vol provides lesson-based resources for meaningful teaching and learning through multimedia presentations. The content is highly engaging, relevant, fun and easy for both students and teachers. It works perfectly with whiteboards and projectors and can also be used by students on their own computers and laptops. Each lesson links interactively with the Teacher CD-ROM. The Teacher CD-ROM offers speech acts in colourful, easy-touse Flash presentations, with video and audio. The colourful modern slides introduce and recycle meaningful language, offering many opportunities to practice good pronunciation while learning about French culture and its relationship with Australia. In line with the Essential Learnings, cultural information is contextualised and requires the students to deduce and draw conclusions. The material is embedded in the text and in the Teacher CD-ROM Flash presentations.