 Course
Code: 405.B2
Le Nouvel Edito B2 (Units 9, 10)
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: 405 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
- Well-being in the French way
- What is French language today?
Communication Skills
- Listen to a radio program about nutrition, a wellness salon/spa (and neo spas), and discuss culinary taste comparing French and British styles
- Discuss invitations and what they reveal
- Discuss problems related to obesity and physical discrimination
- In an article, describe a lifestyle and a culinary fact sheet
- In an email, boast about a diet and write a report on physical discrimination
- Understand a testimonial about the French language
- Give your opinion on the Francophone world
- Discuss the importance of grammar, the diversity of languages, linguistic minorities and regional vocabularies
- Comment on the difference between written and oral expression
- Read a narrative written in “Frenglish”
- Explore a text on the evolution and the mysteries of French grammar
- Read a text that defends the French language
- Study regional expressions in a letter
- Write three letters using different language styles
- “Frenchify” names of websites
Linguistic Skills (grammar and
vocabulary)
- Vocabulary of nutrition, cuisine, the body
- Express quantity
- Express objectives
- Connective words
- The conditional and hypothesis
- Oral exercise: express appreciation and quantity
- Oral exercise: metaphors and language styles
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