 Course
Code: 401.B2
Le Nouvel Édito B2 (Units 1, 2)
Textbook, CD, and DVD
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: 401 Advanced
Understand the main ideas of a complex text, interact with a degree of fluency
and spontaneity, produce clear, detailed texts on a wide range of subjects,
and express viewpoints on topical issues.
Socio-Cultural Themes
- The Media in France and their impact on the French
- New trends in France (food, fashion, and trendy places in Paris)
Communication Skills
- Understand a press review, an interview about the media and a critical text on the media
- Explain and comment on an advertising campaign
- Explain what you like/dislike about the written press and television
- Discuss the future of mankind without the media
- Understand and talk about a news item
- Write an article on a news item and on a TV show
- Understand a radio broadcast on French cuisine, a literary critique, and a news report on a fashion designer/house
- Discuss an article on language/linguistic trends
- Analyze a sociological text on French subcultures
- Read a cartoon on the French “bourgeois bohème”
- Write an article narrating the history of a particular culinary trend in a different culture
- Describe a fashion runway show
- Explain what you like/dislike about fashion
Linguistic Skills (grammar and
vocabulary)
- Vocabulary on the media and fashion
- The passive form
- The reported speech form
- Indirect speech
- The future tense
- The past
- Verb tense overview
- Relative pronouns
- Oral exercise: Rhythm and repetition
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