Course Code: 403.B2
Le Nouvel Edito B2 (Units 5, 6)
Textbook, CD, and DVD

Eligibility
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Objectives
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.

Curriculum

Communication Skills

• Discuss an interview on sustainable development
• Explore a documentary on viticulture and regions
• Discuss investment in ecology, the ecological future of the earth and environmental problems in your country
• Read and discuss stories about animal encounters in Paris
• Analyze oral and written testimonials about May 1968
• Read a news report on Mayotte
• Discuss the death penalty
• Discuss the history of your country, the relativity of History
• Discuss globalization and socio-educational problems by comparing school systems in different counties
• Draft a project on the ideal school
• Discuss a text about abolishing the death penalty
• Explore a passage about the role of France in French colonies
• Study a polemic about French history

Linguistic Skills (grammar and vocabulary)

• Vocabulary of ecology, geography, animals
• Localization
• History
• Nation and citizens
• Personal pronouns
• Consequences
• Oral exercise: pronunciation of personal pronouns

Socio-Cultural Themes

• The French and ecology
• Unfolding History (great moments in French history, what is History for the French)