Spanish – Intermediate Level
OBJECTIVES
This course was conceived for those who can express themselves in Spanish, but in a limited manner, and who wish to improve their knowledge. The intermediate level participants can adequately use, both orally and in writing, verbs conjugated in the present, past and future. Also, they are able to correctly use the negative and interrogative forms of some verbs.
At the end of the course, the participants will be able to:
- Understand the essential points when a clear and concise language is used, as well as when discussing common things about work, leisure, etc.
- For the majority of situations, get by while traveling in an area where the target language is spoken
- Simply and coherently discuss common subjects and those in your field of interest
- Recount an event or experience
- Describe a hope or a goal and briefly discuss the reasons or explanations for a project or idea
The participants will communicate in their personal fields of interest. They will work on comprehending oral conversations on various subjects as well as writing. Reading a short story or excerpts of texts is part of the program.
TARGET CLIENTELE
Public
A placement test is suggested before registering for a course (exception: having taken and passed the prerequisite course).
PREREQUISITE
Having taken the advanced beginner level course or having passed the placement test.
COURSE SYLLABUS
- Communication Content
- Talk about their life, what they are doing until now
- Speak over the telephone
- Take, leave or forward a message
- Locate past action in time and express their duration and frequency
- Express an action in progress in the past
- Speak about various actions and situation in the future
- Formulate hypotheses in the future and express conditions
- Express prohibition, obligation and impersonality
- Speak about what is usual, frequent, normal, etc.
- Summarize a novel or a film and recount a story and anecdotes in the present
- Recommend, advise, give instructions
- Describe advertisements in the present and the past
- Express opinions, debate ideas and react to a situation
- Offer suggestions
- Offer solutions and claims
- Speak about wishes and needs
- Locate actions in the future using the subjunctive mood
- Convey commands, orders and advice
- Give hypotheses and conjectures
- Express various degrees of doubt and certainty
- Grammar
- Irregular verbs
- Future
- Present and Imperfect Subjunctive mood
- Adverbial form
- Prepositions
- Conjunctions
- Verbs like gustar
- importar, interesar, encantar, fascinar, entusiasmar, irritar, molestar, dar miedo, horrorizar, sentar bien/mal, poner nervioso/triste
- Superlatives
- Quantifiers
- Exclamation sentences
- Indicative and Subjunctive mood in relative clauses
- Expressions of various degrees of certainty and probability using the Indicative, Subjunctive and Future moods
- Consolidation of prepositions por and para with verbs ser and estar
- Passive voice using ser+ past participle + por + agent object
- Using the expression of impersonality with se
- Direct and indirect discourse in the past with verbs
- decir, comentar, explicar, reconocer, recordar, admitir, declarar, añadir, confesar, prometer, anunciar, insistir en
- Conditional sentences using si + Imperfect Subjunctive and the Conditional mood
- Using the conditional mood to give advice, express a wish, a hypothesis, an opinion and in forms of politeness
- Consolidation of all past tenses in a narrative discourse
- The preterito perfecto in the subjunctive mood
- Hypotheses using Imperfect Subjunctive and Conditional moods
- Wishes using the Present and Imperfect Subjunctive moods
- Temporal correlation in the present and past, both Indicative and Subjunctive moods
- Consolidation of the Imperfect in a story
- Ser and estar in idioms
- por and para
- Relative pronouns
- el/la/los/las que
- quien/quiene aquel/aquellos/aquella(s) que
- Passive and impersonal constructions in the future
- Indirect discourse using the subjunctive
- Vocabulary
- Enrich vocabulary
- Oral Expression
- Various topics
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