Course Overview
Students will be able to provide detailed information on general topics, express themselves fluently, and write long texts. They will use communicative strategies to maintain a conversation in different contexts and situations.
Functional Contents
What You’ll Learn How to
- Ask, give advice and react
- Transmit what others have said
- Express opinions (agree or disagree) and discuss
- Propose and react, be for or against
- Express advantages and disadvantages
- Narrate events and anecdotes in the past
- Specify frequency and duration of a past action.
- Express simultaneous actions.
- Express an imminent action, not carried out
- Make appointments and give the choice to the interlocutor
- Set conditions to do something
- Describe and evaluate a show
- Describe and comment on social customs and behaviors
- Express value judgments
- Express tastes and express surprise at customs from other cultures
Grammar Contents
- Review of past indicative tenses
- Gerund periphrasis
- Infinitive periphrasis
- Affirmative and negative imperative + enclitic pronouns.
- Uses of the simple conditional
- Uses of the present subjunctive
- Ser and Estar
- Temporary markers
- Adverbs and expressions of time
- While
- Discursive connectors
- Argumentative
- Sentence constructions
- As/when/where + present subjunctive
- Introduction to indirect speech
- Constructions with verbs of opinion, in affirmative and negative sentences
- Relative constructions with the neuter pronoun “lo”
- Comparisons
- Impersonal constructions:
- Conditional constructions: as long as + present subjunctive…
TARGETED AUDIENCE
- Intermediate Students
REQUIREMENTS
- B1 Preliminary
MATERIAL INCLUDED
- Virtual books and exercises
- Access to our Workbook online Campus
Google Drive Whiteboard
