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205 Advanced Beginner A2

Course Code: 205.A2
Latitudes 2 (Units 10, 11, 12)
Textbook, workbook, three CDs, website, and in-class digital book

This is an optional level. Classes at level 205 are for students who have completed the 204 level but feel that they need additional preparation before continuing to the 301 level. It is not a required level. You may move directly from 204 to 301.

Spring 2012
April 2–June 16
11 weeks / full course / 3 hours per week / $585
Venue: FIAF in Montclair, NJ

Placement Test
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Objectives: 205 Advanced Beginner

Structure and Nuances

Communication Skills

• Written correspondence
• Expressing opposition
• Comments and complaints
• Protest
• Express cause and effect, consequences of actions
• Stress and highlight
• Express evidence

Linguistic Skills (grammar and vocabulary)

• Opposition
• « Toujours, déjà, ne…jamais »
• The passive form
• Consequence and causal forms
• Emphasize the conditional and hypothetical
• utilizing the present conditional form
• Simultaneous actions (le gérondif)
• Emphasize using the structure: dans ce cas, au cas où
• Use of language in speeches, and news reports

Socio-Cultural Themes

• Budgeting
• Global economy and energy
• Life as a couple

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