Course Code: 402.B2
Le Nouvel Édito B2 (Units 3, 4)
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: 402
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
- “Arts in Perspective”
- New ways of traveling
Communication Skills
- Understand a radio broadcast, literary review,
an exhibition, a broadcast about an artist and a
broadcast on the history of a work of art
- Write and present a synopsis and a film critique
- Compare three thematically similar paintings, give
your opinion about art and an artist, and present
a work of art
- Understand an article on French cinema, a film
critique, and an article presenting the Journée
du Patrimoine
- Interview someone
- Understand a radio broadcast on green tourism and
debate the subject
- Read a skit about a vacation and express what you
like/dislike about traveling
- Explore an article about an American traveling
in French overseas territories
- Read and discuss an article about different ways
to travel despite an economic crisis
- Study a sociological article about different types
of trips
- In an email, describe different types of green
tourism
- In a postcard, describe a funny situation
- Write a short article to describe and suggest vacation
tips
Linguistic Skills (grammar and
vocabulary)
- Vocabulary of Art, tourism and transportation/commute
- Concession and opposition
- Cause and effect
- The participles
- Express a possibility/give advice
- Oral exercise: Express your appreciation
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