APPENDIX L
NCOMPLETE MATERIALS FOR DISCUSSION (FRENCH)
With two exceptions, the appendices in this report are intended to be, on some scale, complete illustrations of points that were made in the chapters that they follow. It is hoped that they will provoke some discussion, but they do not demand it. This appendix and Appendix F, however, are deliberately incomplete. Instead of suggesting answers, they raise questions.
Material for this appendix is drawn from materials prepared at the Virgin Islands Training Center of the Peace Corps, under the direction of Allen Brooks, in late 1970. The starting point for this series of problems is an exchange sequence of six lines, which the student might meet after perhaps 50-100 hours of study:
| Qu'est-ce que c'est? | What is this? |
| C'est la suspension. | It's the suspension. |
| Où est la suspension? | Where is the suspension? |
| La suspension est fixée au chassis. | The suspension is attached to the chassis. |
| Quelle est la fonction de la suspension? | What is the function of the suspension? |
| La suspension est pour absorber les chocs. | The suspension is for absorbing the bumps. |
1. To what degree would this exchange sequence have 'strength' (Chapter 3, p. 46) for:
a. Adult students already familiar with automobile mechanics in their own language, who plan to
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