Course Code: 404.B2
Le Nouvel Edito B2 (Units 7, 8)
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: 404 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 French and the concept of Love
- the French at work: values, gender issues, and conflicts
Communication Skills
- Study a critique of a novel
- Describe and analyze a personality
- Discuss faithfulness, adultery, differences in love and define your concept of friendship
- Read and explain quotes on love and friendship
- Study a literary text and a poem about love and write stanzas for a poem
- Describe the situation of young graduates and senior citizens and discuss gender equality at work
- Listen to radio broadcasts about women's careers and the French perspective about working on Sunday
- Create a marketing pitch for a human resources director
- Explore an article comparing French and Canadian employees
- Read a critique on social conflicts in French overseas territories
- Write the continuation of a diary
- Comment on numerical data
- React to a controversial article by mail and to an article that compares two surveys
- Invent slogans
Linguistic Skills (grammar and
vocabulary)
- Love and friendship, vocabulary of feelings and emotions
- Vocabulary of work
- Express certainty/doubt
- Differentiate between indicative, infinitive, and subjunctive mood
- Analyzing numerical data
- Compare and contrast
- Present participle, gerund tense, and verbal adjectives
- Oral exercise: express similarities and differences
- Oral exercise: Feelings
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