 Course
Code: 304.B1
Alter Ego 3 (Units 7, 8, 9)
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: 304 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 ecology
- Write a report
- Discuss the future
- Hypothesize
- Express restrictions
- Discuss justice
- Write a letter to file a complaint
- Express certainty/doubt
- Situate events in a narrative
- Give a demonstration
- Discuss travel experiences
- Make a recommendation
- Narrate in the past tense
- Solve a problem over the telephone
- Negotiate a trip
Linguistic Skills (grammar and
vocabulary)
- The future and the conditional tenses
- The simple past tense
- Different ways to express a hypothesis
- Pronouns y and en
- Indefinite pronouns
- Express certainty/doubt
- Substitutions: pronouns and double pronominalization
- Negative clauses
Socio-Cultural Themes
- Civic action and ecology; Justice, a historical trial, detective fiction
- Traveling in Francophone countries (Quebec, Senegal, Morocco, Madagascar, Cambodia, Belgium, Tunisia)
- Travel literature/writers
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