 Course
Code: 301.B1
Alter Ego 3 (Units 1, 2)
Textbook, workbook, CDs, and online activities
Winter 2012
January 9–March 24
11 weeks / full course / 3 hours per week / $585
5½ weeks / accelerated course / 6 hours per week / $585
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Objectives: 301 Intermediate
Study familiar situations encountered in
work, school, and leisure. Learn to formulate
simple sentences about personal interests,
express ideas and opinions, and handle situations likely to arise when traveling.
Communication Skills
- Discuss self-image
- Ask for information and advice by email
- Characterize individuals and their behavior
- Praise, make suggestions, and reproach
- Give advice, give orders
- Express your feelings
- Discuss consumerism
- Describe an object or a service
- Write an email to file a complaint
- Negotiate and discuss a price
- Relay a message
- Warn someone about something
Linguistic Skills (grammar and
vocabulary)
- Simple relative pronouns
- Emphasis
- Comparisons and degrees of comparison
- Relative pronouns
- The infinitive and the subjunctive mood
- Reported/indirect speech and sequence of tenses
Socio-Cultural Themes
- Types of consumers and consumer habits
- The role of imagery in friendships, love, and professional relationships
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