Intermediate Spanish Language

Course Objectives

Communication Ability
•    To be able to communicate comprehensively and clearly in daily situations of basic survival.
•    To be able to describe in simple terminology, aspects of the simple past and interchange information about social activities, personal subjects, likes and interests.
•    To be able to interact in social situations.
•    To be able to initiate, maintain and finish a conversation and be able to identify the subject of what is being talked about.

Linguistic Competence
•    To provide a limited repertoire of linguistic resources.
•    To gain sufficient vocabulary and grammatical structures for brief texts.
•    To pronounce in a generally clear and comprehensible form.

Course Content
•    Greetings and salutations
•    Introduce someone and react to being introduced
•    Identify and describe people, places and objects
•    Inform about ones own academic or professional situation
•    Speak of habits en the present
•    Express opinions and preferences
•    Express sensations
•    Give advise
•    Refer to actions and situations in the past
•    Refer to plans and projects
•    Arrange an appointment
•    Give and ask for opinions about something or someone
•    Express (and ask for) agreement and disagreement
•    Express (and ask for) the possibility or impossibility of completing an action
•    Ask for a favor
•    Accepting and offering invitations
•    Offer and ask for help
•    Apologize, give thanks and congratulate
•    Express conditions

Morphology
Introduction to the basic morphology of Spanish:
•    Inflection: of genre, of number, of person
•    The article
   o    Personal pronoun
   o    Demonstrative
   o    Possessives
   o    Countable and uncountable
   o    Interrogative
   o    Numerals
•    The verb: Morphology of the regular and irregular forms:
   o    The present indicative
   o    The perfect/imperfect preterit  of indicative
   o    The undefined preterit
   o    The imperative
   o    The future imperative
   o    The non-personal forms (infinitive, gerund and participle)
•    The most frequent adverbs
•    Introduction to the pronoun system
Syntax
•    Basic syntactical relations
•    Basic syntactical structures:
•    Prepositions and conjunctions
•    Affirmative, negative, interrogative and explanative sentences
•    Impersonal introductions
•    Irregular verbs (gustar, doler)
•    Verbal periphrasis (Ir + a + infinitive, poder + infinitive)
•    Reflexive verbs
•    Unstressed pronouns
•    Comparisons

Lexical Contents
Basic vocabulary for the following subjects:
•    Personal signs
•    Name, age, sex, place of birth, marital status
•    Nationality
•    Physical description
•    Family and personal relations
•    Health and the human body
   o    Parts of the body
   o    Clothes and personal objects
•    Transportation and trips
   o    Methods of transportation, tickets and conditions
   o    Tourism and vacation
   o    Hotels
•    Food and drink
   o    Meals of the day and different plates
•    Restaurants and bars
•    Stores and Markets
   o    Shopping, prices, money, measurement and weight
•    Free time
   o    Personal interests
   o    Sports
   o    Events
•    Nature and environment
   o    Landscape
•    Weather and climate
•    Teaching
   o    Study centers and classroom
   o    Courses and subjects: calendars and hours
•    Society, State
   o    History
   o    Customs