Course Overview
Students can debate points of view, present arguments and learn to use idiomatic expressions and other types of stylistic resources that will allow them to use the language creatively. There is no difficulty in reading contemporary Spanish and Latin American texts.
Functional Contents
What You’ll Learn How to
- Express physical and personality description.
- Judge and evaluate.
- Tell stories. Express temporal relationships between actions.
- Correct erroneous information.
- Give instructions.
- Give and ask for opinion.
- Persuade and convince.
- Resources to express agreement and disagreement with part of what another has said.
- Express doubt and reservation.
Grammar Contents
- Compositional elements associated with nouns: frequently used prefixes and suffixes. Adjectives with both genders
- Comparative constructions of the type more/less than, more/less than and the more/less…
- Uses of ser and estar + qualifying adjective
- Vocabulary of the body and personality
- Morphology and uses of the Preterite Tenses on Indicative
- Temporary markers. Story organizers
- Verbal periphrases to mark temporal perspective: Gerund, Participle and Infinitive.
- Morphology and uses of the Present and Imperfect Subjunctive
- Morphology and uses of the conditional
- Uses of the subjunctive and conditional in substantive sentences to express opinion, advise, formulate wishes, express feelings and states of mind
- Uses of the indicative and subjunctive in final, modal, and temporal sentences
- Relative pronouns and adverbs. Morphology and frequent uses
- Sentence constructions with pronouns and relative adverbs with preposition
- Personal pronouns
- Demonstratives and pronoun lo with prepositional phrases
Strategic Contents
- Resources to talk about learning a language
- Resources to control communication in class
- Negotiation of personal and technical strategies for learning a language
- Reflection and negotiation about learning a language
- Resources and techniques for the organization and improvement of a written text
- Resources to be interested in and inform about the content of a written text
- Resources to request actions from others: announce the completion of an action, request a favor, offer help and accept or reject it, give instructions, advise or disadvise, request information in public services
- Resources and strategies to refer to the past: resources to organize a story, to react to a story, to relate different moments in the past, to talk about changes over time, to describe a situation in the past
- Positive learning strategies discovered during the course
- Getting in touch with and reflecting on the peninsular and Latin American variants of Spanish and its relationship with learning
Cultural Contents
- Daily life: work practices and leisure activities…
- Living conditions: living standards and quality of life…
- Personal relationships: social structure, family structure and relationships, relationships between generations, relationships of power and solidarity, relationships of race and community…
- Values, beliefs and attitudes: professional groups, regional cultures, national identity, foreign countries, states and peoples, politics, arts, wealth, income and inheritance, humor…
- Body language (CEFR: 87-88).
- Social conventions: conventions and taboos relating to behavior and conversations…
- Ritual behavior in areas such as the following: family ceremonies and events, public and private celebrations…
TARGETED AUDIENCE
- Upper Intermediate Students
REQUIREMENTS
- B2 First
MATERIAL INCLUDED
- Virtual books and exercises
- Access to our Workbook online Campus
- Google Drive Whiteboard
